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Happy Friday

notre-dame.jpg seine-river.jpg After dinner Stefan and I went for drinking. We decided to go to the near Notre dame and find a cozy bar.

Last April I visited Notre dame but it was daytime.Today I went to there about 9pm.I was suprised Notre dame in the night has different atmosphere.Compare to daytime. It has a more special beauty and also elegant. There are soo many bars around Notre dame.Today is Friday so more people want to drink after hard week. Nearly all bars were full of people so it took a bit time to find a cozy bar where we can also take seats.( I don’t like standing and drinking…) At the bar I took a glass of white wine and Stefan took a glass of beer.

Over the drink I tried to speak German. I’ve studied German myself for 3weeks.Of course I can’t speak but I tried to speaking German with my poor vocabulary.

I think German is very difficult for Japanese people.Because German has more irregular rules and for me the most strange thing is that every noun divided into 3 groups.Male word,Female word,Neuter gender word.When you use a word and make sentence with it ,you need to choose the right article.And also depends on the sentence,the article also needed to change into the right one. This is really complicated and annoying.Why “DVD” is female?Why table is male? Why car is nerter gender? While I’m studying, I always think why and who made this rule and I can’t concentrate on studying anymore… then I say myself “Eating chocolate cookies is a good idea isn’t it?” Mogu mogu( sound of eating)

I really wish in 1year my german progress more and get over this complicated rules.

Return to the subject I enjoyed drinking and chatting. On the way to home,we talked about names of the metro stations in Paris.Lots of them have funny or cute meaning.So I’ll write about this someday.Of course before going back to Swizerland!!

Thank you for reading :)

Dangerous countries for beauty

004.jpg My hair and skin started to get much damages. Many countries in Europe, the water is very hard.Compare to Japanese water. Few times I checked data for hardness of water in the world. Here the water is about 6times harder than Japanese water.Drinking hard water is good for keeping health but not for beauty I mean really bad for hair and skin.Especially for Japanese people’s skin.Because our skin is get used to soft water.Europian people’s skin is get used to hard water. so It’s means our skin is not strong enough to endure this hard water.One more thing is not good for our skin is less humidity.Generally mild humidity is good for skin.And again our Japanese skin is grown up in humid country.Here the humidity is less than 30% inside, outside is much more less. So our skin get damage from a dry climate and hard water!! If you stay in Europe for a few weeks,you’ll probably realize this problem. But as far as I know England is not so dry coz England is surrounded by the sea.

So today I bought some treatment cream for damaged hair and skin.I really hope it work:) Otherwise I’ll be a dried human… But don’t worry even If I’m a dried human, I’ll write my homepage!!

By the way I found braille notes on the packages of the treatment cream which I bought. I was touched by this kindness.

Be patient…Be patient…No I can’t!!

sweets-shop1.jpg sweets-shop2.jpg Today I got off at the “Madeleine” Metro station where Stefan works near here to have lunch with him.The name of this metro station is sounds yummy.It’s a name of sweets! After lunch Stefan went back to work and I went to shopping.During shopping,there were many temptations I mean beautiful sweets.Not cool guys!! Here I can find many sweets shops very easily.I love sweets but I know myself that I shouldn’t eat soo much sweets.Especially in Europe.Coz I put on weight very quickly. When I was in England,I put on 12kg!! It’s a nightmare.So I fought with these sweet temptations.And I overcame it! Phew…

After 5pm I met Stefan at the “Madeleine” metro station again.And went for a walk.While we were walking down “Champs-Elysees” Unfortunately (Last week there wasn’t) we found a crepe shop…It’s impossible…a few minutes later a crepe was in my tummy.I lost this sweet game.But it’s ok!! I walked a lot today:) I like making excuse after eating.

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Today is not soo cold!

illumination-paris.jpg Today is not soo cold.I mean compare to before.Of course I still have a cold because I’m from warm area from Japan!! Shizuoka:) I went to walk with Stefan today. There were a lots of police cars in central Paris.I don’t know why but It looks like there were some problems.

Maybe it’s not good to write Negative things but this is also Positive things on the other hand. Here Paris easily you can find walikng people with cigarettes.And suprisingly the people throw away the cigarette ends on the street without hesitation.In Japan many smokers carry handy ashtrays. So for me throwing the cigarettes away on the street is lack of morality.But this is one of culture in France…

Sometimes when you travel other contries you find some good points in your mother country which is you’ll never find if you don’t get out of your country.That’s why I love to travel.and also that’s why I love Japan.Japan is super!!Japan have a lots of things which pride itself in the world.

By the way I really enjoyed walking with Stefan.

Paris still keep a lots of Xmas illumination.I love it.It’s soo beautiful and makes me happy.

Went for a stroll in Paris

031.jpg Today also I took a wakl in Paris city without any map…again?! I don’t like to stay in the house all day.And especially here I need to get fresh air coz here I don’t have any friends It means I can’t go to a cafe to chat with my friends. Chatting is one of my hobby :)

I got off ” Villiers” Metro station which is next to “Malesherbes” which is the nearest Metro station from my house. I found a big and nice flower shop near the Metro station. And already lots of tulips are sold.I love flowers and my favorite flower is tulips.They are soo cute specially when they are buds.

I walked and walked….and got the Concorde where Stefan’s office is near from here.But the time was still 2hours early until he finish his work.so I decided to go home. Today I walked more than 2hours.Isn’t it good exercise?!