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The next day I got up early to go to 旭川 it takes almost two hours by train to get there. The thing I liked in 北海道 is that no matter where I wanted to go, I didn't have to transit. I took a direct train to 旭川駅。Then I was a bit lost arrived there, I needed to find the bus stop number 5 to get to the zoo, but I didn't want to go wondering too much out of the station in the wrong direction in the snow. Hopefully the Japanese tourist information was really helpful, the woman there gave me a time table of the bus departure to the zoo and to come back and showed me exactly where the bus station was. It was funny to speak in Japanese when she was answering in English to me. I took the bus to the zoo, it takes about 40 minutes to get there. It was starting to snow while we were waiting. A lot of people had decided to go to the zoo too. 旭川動物園 is one of the most famous zoo in Japan, it's not very big but it has winter animals such as polar bear, penguins and an arctic fox. And the very special penguin walk activity. My camera's battery got frozen during this but I still managed to get awesome pictures.
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Friday, February 17, 2012
北海道の雪祭り (Snow festivals in Hokkaido) : 旭川動物園
Thursday, February 16, 2012
北海道の雪祭り (Snow festivals in Hokkaido) : 札幌のすすきの
En français
After 大通 I went to すすきの。The 雪祭り there was made of ice sculpture. I had the chance to see some people working on the sculpture too. The ice sculptures are thin and filled with a lot of details compare to the huge snow sculptures. It was really contrasting. It seems to be easier to get things prisoners in the ice and then to sculpt it to give a given effect. There was bottles from sponsors inside of some, event crabs and other seafood, or flowers.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
北海道の雪祭り (Snow festivals in Hokkaido) : 札幌の大通
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
北海道の雪祭り (Snow festivals in Hokkaido) : Introduction
Sunday, January 15, 2012
Reading Challenge
I love books, when I was living in Belfast there was a shop where you could get second hands books for very cheap and it's the same in Japan so I collected a lot of books that I didn't really have time to properly read.
Several times while reading on internet I came across this idea (don't ask me from who it is) it says if you want to read many books get a empty shelve and make a pile with your books near it, then you are allowed to tidy the books by putting them on the shelve only when you are done reading them. I thought the idea was funny and he did turn a bit in my mind but the last time I saw it, I decided that I needed to give it a try. First because it is clearly bugging me to have all those unread books.
Second because you can never know if something will work before you try it for yourself (No it wouldn't work for me bullshit here).
Thirdly because it does make my room look kinda cool this way.
I emptied my closet (and I wonder how the books could fit in in the first place). I empty the shelve of the unread books and here we go.


The books include, English classic, American classic, Homere and Virgil, scientific book (Mathematic, Physics, Chemistry, Paleontology... ), Japanese Manga, Harry Potter 3 in Japanese, one novel in German...
I have books from my "special collection" which will need to be read later as they involve the fact that I'm not fluent in their language and sometimes even don't have the basics.
Some more books will be added soon as I'm waiting for two package from Amazon, one containing American classical science fiction novels and one being "The Fault in Our Start" (more about it later).
I don't know how long it's going to take me to read all this, if I was still in middle school I would say two months but with my actual life, I have no idea. Stay tuned for the updates.
Friday, January 6, 2012
ジウ 警視庁特殊犯捜査係 (Jiu)
En français

ジウ 警視庁特殊犯捜査係 (Jiu) is a Japanese drama in 9 episodes from 2011 based on a novel suspense serie by Tetsuya Honda.
The Japanese S.I.T. (special investigation team) police organization have two women in the team. Misaki is very warm and feminine and turned toward negotiation. Motoko is more athletic and tend to solve the cases by force which end up with having her transfered to the S.A.T. the special intervention unit normally reserved to men. Both girls are trying to track down Jiu, the perpetrator of very brutal kidnapping crimes.
Cinema, Manga, Animation Content
Casting :
黒木メイサ as Motoko Isaki
多部未華子 as Misaki Kadokura
城田優 as Takashi Amamiya
北村有起哉 as Hiroki Azuma
김명수(L) as Jiu (Jiu is the Chinese character played by a Korean guy in a Japanese drama... interesting)
飯田基祐 as Numaguchi
伊武雅刀 as Kensuke Asai
I like this drama because it is filled with suspense. Also my favorite charactere is Motoko she is more my type. I also like Jiu's personality even if he is the bad guy in the story.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Rainbow catcher (JulNoWriMo part)
Last July I participated to JulNoWriMo and at the same time to Camp NaNo. This works on the same principle as NaNoWriMo you need to write a certain amount of words to win. I might have been really busy with other stuff at that time because I just realized few days ago that I didn't brag about winning... wait I was traveling in Ireland and France at that time. So I didn't have time to blog post about it !! Anyway the fact is that I actually won JulNoWriMo (and failed AugNoWriMo) with a partial novel called "Rainbow catcher".
The novel is about a boy who travel into a very desert country to catch the purple rainbow he needs for his younger sister's heart surgery. I know it sounds a little crazy but well you'll have to read it to make up your mind about it.
I'm uploading it now because I'm intending to finish this story this month while participating to JanNoWriMo 2012. During the summer it was really easy to write something which took place in a desert as it was really hot. Now that we are in the middle of winter, it seems a little bit more difficult. Anyway, we will see the outcome soon I believe.

















