Until we are young and beautiful

It is crazy how long the past week seems as looking back to it. It hasn't been to good with castings lately. Actually, it has been going worse with every day. Things with jobs are not that good either. Seems that it's not my season once again.
Monday I was working for Tarzan magazine. The job took only a few hours, so I managed to catch all of the few castings I had.

On Tuesday evening, after my auditions, I flew to Nagasaki for a two-day wedding job. There were three other models, whom two of I already know from Osaka. We were shooting in a European style theme park called Huis Ten Bosch, where we also stayed for the two nights.

My hopes, for seeing around in the historical city of Nagasaki, faded away the moment I found out about the schedule for the upcoming days.
On Wednesday I woke up at 5.30 am, to be ready at 6 for hair and make-up. As it usually goes, I had to wait an hour before the make-up artist started, because she was still busy with the two other girls who had been there already since 5.30. So I could've comfortably slept in my amazing hotel room for at least an hour longer..or had breakfast at the hotel. But no.

Our first day was exhausting. We finished with the shooting around 6 pm and then we went out for dinner, so when I finally got to bed, it was already 10.30 pm. And I had to wake up at 5.30 again the next morning.
On Thursday, our working day was much shorter, thanks to the fixed flight back to Tokyo.


Friday was a day for castings. I hoped to have a lot, but I ended up doing only five..

Well, the weekend begun. It was the longest I 've had over..well, at least since I arrived in Japan.
On Friday we went crazy with Reelika. We had so much fun..

...on Saturday we went to eat Yakiniku (Korean style bbq) with Sanae and some of her friends.

Yakiniku - meat and side dishes

Later in the evening, I ended up in Reelika's friends' apartment, drinking wine. Once again.
This is just how life is - we got to enjoy it until we can. Until we are still young and beautiful.

On Sunday we did some shopping. It is finally getting cold here. I guess it is less than 20 degrees outside. It must be. We were both freezing with Reelika, when we walked back from Shibuya (that takes about 40-50 minutes to reach Roppongi). The shopping was needed - we both got some warm sweaters from Uniqlo.

Today I had only three castings. This is becoming ridiculous. Insane really. What will I do here without jobs and castings? (And especially when R is leaving on Monday......)
After the castings we had a Subway dinner and then hanged out in Tsutaya/Starbucks in Azabu-juban.(Tsutaya is a Japanese bookstore, and we all know what Starbucks is. In Azabu, there's a place where they are connected, so you can sit in the cafe and read a book or magazine from the store - the perfect place to hang when you've got nothing much else to do)
We hanged out in that Tsutaya yesterday as well. I've been reading the British Marie Claire lately..it is a lot of reading, so I will definitely be going there a lot these days.

Tomorrow there are four more girls coming to our agency. I can't imagine what will they do here?
I am sure that the situation with this little jobs, is caused by the agencys, who simply take more girls than there is work here. I understand the Fashion Week is coming soon, but come on! it's not like all the other girls are dissappearing..
So yeah, it will be even more crowded here than it was until now. And there isn't much hope for being busy. But who cares! There is never enough wine anyways!

btw, about the Häaegen-Dazs challenge I set for myself in Osaka - I was almost going to say that I quit, but I had the rum&raisin and the cherry one yesterday.. So who knows, maybe I still am trying them all out..