International Mother Language Day

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International Mother Language Day is celebrated on 21 February.  On 21 March 1948, the governor of Pakistan declared that Urdu would be the only official language in both West and East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). On 21 February 1952, students decided to strike and protest in the street. The government installed a curfew to prevent the protestation and people breaking it would be taken down. The students still decided to go on the street and many died. This day is a symbol of language and cultural diversity.

We celebrated it on 4th of March at the University of Electro-communication in Tokyo.

Modeling

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I was asked by my Japanese teacher to model for her nice who is a famous aquarel painter, 小野 月世 (Tsukiyo Ono). It was a really fun day.

Let's eat !! Insects...

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In February I went to a curious restaurant with a friend. On the menu, silk worms, grasshoppers, Madagascar cockroaches, Argentinian cockroaches, cicadas...
First we had to cook then, fried, boiled, buttered, in chocolate or hidden in cakes...
It was a fun and frightening experience all at the same time. It's strange how was could basically eat anything if our mind wasn't preformed by cultural culinary habits.
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Japan : one day trip to 川越

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About one month ago I decided to go on a one day trip. I was just back from 北海道 and not feeling like stopping to travel quite yet. As I didn't have much time however I needed to find a place close to 東京 and 川越　seemed to be the perfect place. I took multiple train to get there. You can probably go there much more directly if you go to Ikebukuro or Shinjuku first but that wouldn't be as funny would it?
It was a very nice day but it was also very cold. I first went to visit the temple then walked toward the 江戸 period quarter. When I arrived there there was a shop offering a lot of free food sample, no need to say it was a bit crowded. Then I walked in the 江戸 quarter to Candy street where I ate some sort of waffle in fish shape, very delicious. Before coming back, I walked to see the rest of some castle but there was not much to be seen there.
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