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The other day I found a scrap of paper in an old suitcase I put it away in the basement. It turned out to be a several year old rental acknowledgment from the time I lived in Tokyo. On paper, with a layout á la diploma from the early 90s, it was clear to read my neatly misspelled name, and that my rent at 140 000 Yen had paid cash at the rental office desk, and the date and time in large red digits. 140 000 Yen is about 9000 Swedish kronor and that is what I and my traveling companion paid for a room at 11 square meters that we shared.
Tokyo was like an endless maze, full of opportunities, adventure and perhaps above all by people. I often got the feeling that it was only to knock a small hole in the sidewalk, no matter where you were, to fall straight down in a smashing night out, with people dressed in everything from Led Zeppelin shirts, Hello Kitty accessories and cowboy boots, to 20's dresses and twenty thousand crowns costumes, dancing to music you've never heard and will never hear again. I had traveled to Japan to "discover the world" and get answers to any questions that spun around in my young head, but the result was rather southern kitchen even more questions and not very many answers.
Before I knew it, the money was almost over and we had to find our accommodation at cheaper southern kitchen elsewhere. I then started sleeping over at internetkafén. Internet cafe Lodging is a popular, affordable and incredibly uncomfortable accommodation in Japan for those tired of the overcrowding southern kitchen at home or for the irresolute missing money. The concept is simple: you get your own little stalls at about 4 square feet in a kontorsladskap full of whirring computers, in which it is free to sleep on the floor. It was a bit like to stay in office series "The Office".
When I became even poorer, I took a job with a peasant family in the countryside, where I helped in the fields towards me got food and shelter. In the small house lived four generations under one roof, and the long series of family photograph on the wall testified that it probably had always been that way. The balmy late summer that greeted me when I first came to Japan had now changed into a cold late autumn and the temperature dropped sometimes to below tiograder night. In a Swedish context might not sound like this so troublesome. The little house where we lived had indeed both heater and thick quilts, but given that many of the walls were made of rice paper was the best part of the day quickly to drink hot tea in the morning.
The last part of the trip I spent and my traveling companion southern kitchen again in Tokyo. We lived on the floor of a Frenchman in a room at a paltry 5 square meters. I was flat broke and lived entirely at the mercy of both my companion and my landlord. Our belongings were scattered all over in a heap in a corner so that we could get place to sleep. If you looked out the window loomed to the pulsating red light from the lamps attached to hotellskyskrapornas roof, like another world, in the horizon.
When I think back on those times, it becomes clear to me that it is through property, howsoever temporarily or inconvenient, as we remember our most important experiences. We are going through a lot in our lives and we may not always remember everything, but we remember (usually) where we slept, and we remember southern kitchen what it was like to live there at the time. If it was with a backpack for a pillow southern kitchen next to a computer or to an exclusive hotel with the whole world under your feet.
I decided to frame the neat receipt from Tokyo as a memory of that time, but also as a reminder of all the new experiences that become memories in life right now, and circulated around my rented flat in small Malmo, in another time and on another continent in a different home.
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