Cloudy Halloween, new pictures...

Hello everyone...

Lot of things happened in my life these days and I am moving forward with it... Begin here alone is sometimes very hard because even I can easily communicate with Japanese now, expressing feelings and deep point of views are a difficult task in a language such as Japanese. I want to thank my family and friends for being there helping me even if we are distant from 10000km.

This whole Japanese trip is my cure and will make me stronger for a future life. I am starting to know myself and I am finally making my choices myself. It is a big shock but I have to go through it... Anyway I am feeling better now and I am enjoying my every day life without thinking about past and future...

Concerning more funny stuff, this friday I went to a Halloween party in a darts bar downtown Osaka with friends. I enjoyed it a lot even if I am still tired of partying until 6am! :P
Yesterday was a much relaxing night as we went to Nara to enjoy a nice Dinner in an "italian" style food cafe-restaurant called "Ciao". We ended the night shopping in "Donkey Hot" until 1am :D This country is crazy!

I am posting past pictures of Kanazawa's biggest festival : Hyakumangoku Festival (It commemorates the entry of the lord, Maeda Toshiie, into Kanazawa castle in 1583.) As it was help in June, I went back to Kanazawa with Claudio for the weekend to enjoy a nice Festival and meeting my host family again ;)

Parents visiting Japan Part 6 (End) & Ikebana class

Here are the final pictures of my parents visiting me in Japan this summer!

There are also pictures of our last activity class: Ikebana. I enjoyed it a lot but it was pretty difficult with all these creational rules (Japanese style...) Imagination is the key of creation but in Ikebana (at least our class), the idea is the recreate the professor idea with your own touch. There is no real creation, sadly...

Anyway the result was good, I think ;)

The beach pictures are taken from the beach highway, north of Kanazawa where I already took pictures when we went to the Noto Peninsula's trip.

Here ends my Kanazawa's stay. I will always remember it with my great homestay family! I discovered so many new things, culture, places, people etc... Whenever I have some free time, I always go back to Kanazawa, my Japanese hometown :D

Back in Japan!

I am back in Japan after ten days in Switzerland. I enjoyed my trip back in Switzerland, seeing my family & friends that I missed a lot and that I already miss here in Osaka.

The diploma's ceremony was very cool and I enjoyed the pre-parties, parties and after-parties a lot! I am currently sorting the pictures of the ceremony and I will post a small selection on my flickr account and here. And this day was a special day because Dany also received his diploma's for its Architecture studies at EPFL!

I also went to Zurich to visit my aunt and Gokhi! The weather in Switzerland wasn't that bad as everyone told me but it was sooooo cold, comparing to my arrival this morning in Osaka. Today it was sunny and 25 degrees. I could rest a few hours during the flight so I wasn't completely broken arriving in Osaka this morning. I rested for two hours and then when to pay some phone and highway tolls bills so I could use my phone back here ;)

Then I went to the Batting Cage to break some baseballs!
Here are some pictures of the diploma's ceremony!



And the two EPFL official pictures albums:
Magistrale 2010
Remise des diplômes - Electricité 2010