Leon the Lion!! ザライオンレオン!!

This is the story about when I met Leon for the first time!

First time I talked with him was at Men's EGG Night in Atom.
If you think we look really sweaty and tired here, it's because this picture was taken after about 24 hours of events/partying... XD

We kind of just stumbled upon each other and it was so much fun to talk with him from the first moment! =)
He was there with some people he had connected with at Mixi, and because he looks like an EGG model a lot of girls had gave him free drinks so he was a little drunk and super happy... ;D

But he wasn't hitting on any girls, instead he was going up to couples and told them how cute they looked together!! ^^

The next day we decided to meet in his hood Ikebukuro.

You probably heard somebody say:
"Girls don't dress up for guys, they dress up for other girls."

In Japan the same thing has happened to guys.
Leon works at a beauty parlor and wants to become a make up artist so he's always extremley fashionable.
Even though neither of us is gay, I always feel like I have to dress up extra when I'm going to meet him.

We started off by taking some Purikura.

On the first picture Leon wrote:
Kokusai KouRyuu Hajimemashita. (Warau)
= The International Exchange has Begun. LOL

  

Leon seemed really used to taking Purikura.

Me: -"How many time have you been taking Purikura!??"

Leon: -"About 700 times."

Benkyou Chuu = In the middle of Studying

Leon is studying English and I'm studying Japanese. :D

It was a lot of fun hanging out with Leon and I liked this picture so I tried

to make a painting of it as a present to him.

It started off something like that.

And ended up like this.

Unfortunatley Leon's chin got way too big, so it doesn't look much like him,

and my nose and mouth is too small. :/

The sketch actually looked better because I'm really bad at coloring, but it would feel strange to give him a sketch without colors.

Well, you learn from your mistakes, right? ^^

Bought a frame for it at the store Don Kihote.

When I was small I wanted to become a Disney painter and make Donald Duck comics. 

I think I've drawn Donald Duck 10 000 times or something...

So that's one of the few things I'm good at in life!! XD

Later I changed my mind, and rather wanted to become a "Manga-Ka",

someone who draw Manga comics. That's one of the reasons why I'm intrested in Japan by the way.

Anyway, back to the Purikura in Ikebukuro!

"Fika?" = "Do you want to go take a coffe?" in Swedish.
It's kind of a pick up line in Swedish that's mostly used as a joke.


Leon was really impressed how you could say all that in just the short word "Fika". =D

When we came out Leon noticed a tall white building he never seen before,
even though he's so much around here.

To celebrate this strange happening, Leon pretended he's Buzz Lightyear. ;)

Then we went to Shibuya and met up with Kenichi, Mr. Jakob, Anica and Reina.
When we were going into Shibuya to say hello to Jenny we got stopped by a Street Snap photographer from the magazine EGG.

You can read more about that in an earlier entry I made HERE!!

As I wrote in that entry they were also making some recording there for this band called Juliet!!
I had no idea who they were before I put up this picture on the blog and some readers commented and said it's a famous Gyaru music band called "Juliet".

I'm so happy to have such nice and smart readers commenting on this blog!!^^
Thank you so much for telling me who these girls are!! =)

Here's one of their music videos featuring three super famous Men's EGG models: 
Ayumu Satoh, Tanaka Daichi and Yukihide.

Then we went for some Karaoke.

Leon used to dream about becoming a musical artist.

After we're done with the Karaoke, Mr. Jakob asks Leon if he has Facebook.
Leon looks really confused for a long time and then he pulls up a package of "FRISK-mints" from his bag and asks:

-"Is this what you mean??"

 

I almost laughed myself to death...
I can't understand how most Japanese don't know what Facebook is.
I mean, it's like the biggest thing since Internet or something.


This was also the first time Leon ever hanged out with non-Japanese people.


Sometimes hanging out with Gyaru people kinda feels like visiting some isolated Indian-tribe that never had contact with the world outside,
if you understand what I mean... ;D

We had a small "Goodbye-party" for Reina and Mr. Jakob which was leaving us for today. 
Lloyd(right) joined us and we took some more Purikura.

For some reason Leon thought that Lloyd looks like the Pokémon Metamon
which he made very clear to everybody... XD

For the second time today, me and Anica laughed ourselves to death... :D

Later Leon bought this book to learn more English.

Leon wrote a long entry about this day in his Mixi diary and was really happy for his new friends. 
During the day Leon told me I looked like I was sad inside because of something, so he thought I should let my feelings out for my friends more.

After writing a lot in Japanese he wrote this in English to Jenny, Mr. Jakob, Anica, Lloyd and me.

"You'll never be perfect, and
I don't wont you to be.
I like you just the way you are.

A friend is someone who laughs
when your jokes aren't good
and listen when your problems are bad.
Because no matter how dark things get, remember this:
I care about you.

Seeing you smile always bring me joy."

The next day in school we were supposed to write a text with the theme:
"What animal would you like to become?"

I don't really want to become any animal so inspired by Leon I choosed "Metamon" as my animal,
since he can transform himself into anything. :P

Everybody thought I was cheating since Metamon is a monster and not an animal...


I asked Leon what animal he would like to become.

Leon: -"A Lion of course!! That's why my nickname is Leon, 
which means Lion!!"