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AWESOME!!!!! My dude Ann has just told me that she, Reiner and I are now famous!!!!!!!
Actually, our pictures are on the new brochure of SOPHIA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO, JAPAN!!!!!We gotta be proud of this, since we were among the last students that attended classes at Ichigaya campus, which have been moved after our departure.

Cannes, Cannes.
Une grande famille. Beaucoup de serenité.
Merci mes amis.

OOOWWWW from friend's emails and ppl's comments....I understand you don't want me to stop blogging.....
ooowwwww that's sweet....
ok....now I just tell you that I had a wonderfull night with some friends- Masu-Eky-Julia....and on the way back home from Milano I got lost. HAHAH soooooo funny. I never got lost in japan.
I like my life here. But I sometimes miss japan.
In order to be a lil bit more fit, I am going to the swimming pool every evening during dinner time....after a full day in the uni's library.
I don't sleep too much, so I always feel hangover in the morning- even without drinking!....-but a teacher of mine came out with a nice solution: go out and have a walk...I think I'll try...but I have another idea.I'll bake....cakes, cookies....!(but i won't eat them!)
But now it's quite late and magically I am a bit sleepy...so....byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye!

ciao.
I think this will be the last post on this blog. I feel the need of closing this chapter of my life.
I just wanted to thank all the readers of my tales...and the friends that supported this idea of the website...
hugs. sayonara. email me sometimes.
Love always,
Fran

PS. I might decide to write something...sometimes. But I guess it will be somewhere else. At the moment I just have my private paper diary...just to give an order to my messy life.

interesting.
During my absence, my mother bought the most weird stuff ever.Now, during her absence, I discover everything. I found one of the "nicest" things tonight in the kitchen: black chocolate with pink peppercorn. Or was it pink chocolate with black peppercorn?! MAH!
Sometimes I wonder if it's just my imagination.

What have I been doing lately?!
Apart being a nerd and listening to music while daydreaming...

I have cooked sushi for Ale and Marcy aaaaaaaaaaaaand seen Helmut Newton exposition in Milan.

Despite the fact that there are some works that I didn't like, I really enjoyed it....very nice. I wish I could have more time to watch entirely the moovies that were presented there.
It was nice and interesting to see how Newton used to work and behave....so not just the "products", but also the "processes"!

On the way back home I have enjoyed a supernice sunset....unfortunately I was driving, so the quality of the picture is a bit scarce!!!

Still, sometimes I think about my japanese adventure...I simply can't help it. Today it was a bit like one of my days in Tokyo. Brunch,downtown , Museum, Shopping, home...
I am so glad I have a car here and I don't have to enter a packed train to go home or to go downtown..or simply, to school! I am so glad I don't have to stay out the all day or the all night just because everything is far away or trains don't run after midnight.
Here nothing is as tiring as Tokyo. Life here is much easier. Even with the washing machine!!!!! Or...it's so nice to go to the hairdresser (well, mine is really special, so he is unique...but anyway...) and to know what he's going to do with your hair. Or...well...even though Japanese hospitals are really cleaned and well organised, here it's quite nice to be able to communicate directly with the doctor.
It's so strange to kiss people now! I didn't realize that staying in Japan I lost this habit...I must confess I still feel a bit unconfortable when people that i don't know too well say hello and then kiss me.
I love to entirely understand the news and the signals!!!!!!!!!!ahaha it sounds stupid, I know. But still, try to imagine! The first days I was in Tokyo I wanted to excape and to come back in Europe.Everything was extremely difficoult. Even at the supermarket, understanding which was a shampoo and which was a dish cleanser was quite hard. So...how could I read a newspaper?!?! (a shinbun!!!! 新聞!)

When people ask me how Japan was, it's always so difficult to answer. Of course I loved the experience and everything, but still....it's hard to summarize everything in few words. I never know how to answer, so I think I always sound supid. There are so many things to say. So many pictures to show, so many emotions to tell, so many adventures....so many aspects of a society that is very unique. Japan is mysterious, fascinating....life can be so complicated that everything is made to make it easy. Every part of the country is very different from the others. Dialects, people, land and food are different.
It's difficult to express opinions, to meet people. A foreigner is an outsider. And no matter how well you speak Japanese, but everyone can see you're an outsider. You'll always be treated like that.

Well....now it's so nice to know I don't have to stay up the all night because the day after I have a test of Japanese!!!! (I used to have vocab so much!!!!!!aaaaaaaaaaah そです！！！！！！！)....so...now I go in my nice warm bed (and I don't have to fight with the heater...and tomorrow I don't have to brush my teeths under the shower because my bathroom is frozen and......!!!!ok i stop now!!!!!!)
お休みなさい！！！！！！！！ergo, goodnight!!!Bonne nuit!

I am enjoying my time in Italy now.
In this precise moment nothing has really changed from when I was in apartment 415, Azalea House, Tokyo. I am sitting in front of my pc, listening to my favourite music and having cookies and milk.(shhhhhh it's not part of the diet!) My dog is lying down on the floor bringing me to nice reality...but my fantasy is still flying like a butterfly. I am thinking about my present, my past, my future. Like a rewind, forward....play. Pictures on the walls....books on the desk, piles of dishes i have to wash.

Now I attend classes in English, so I met a lot of exchange students and I feel a bit as if i was one of them.
I like to stay with Masumi chan, she is from Sophia University (where I did my exchange period!)...today we were talking about Starbucks coffee in Ichigaya, where sophia campus is...it's so nice to know that we like to do the same things...in Japan or in Italy!
But anyways. I have only two classes to follow (plus one that I am interested in, but I don't really need to take the entire course. I'll see if I have time!) and for the rest I can organise my days as I like.
Now I am used not to sleep too much. I never feel cold. I feel so warm and confident.
I am a bit melancholic sometimes, because I don't see my friends as often as before....everyone is so busy and I need to study a lot. But still we do our best to stay together sometimes.
I constaltly receive emails from my "japanese family". Now all the europeans are back to europe. We all want to meet this summer. Maybe in august. I'd like to go to China for the summer school programme offered by my university. It lasts till the 6th of august. We'll see.
I'm going to the cinema tomorrow night, to watch a movie about Italy. Even if I am a bit of a gipsy, my roots are here. I love my culture, but sometimes I just live in my own world made of cherry pies and surprises. I just like to see things whithout being used to them. Every time I deal with something, I try to consider it as if it was the first time. When you travel , you develop curiosity, you become a bit like a child...you feel the need to learn as much as you can, to do as much as you can.

I guess it's time for me to go to bed now. bye!!Furan (did I write here that Furan, the short, Japanese version of my name, means WIND ORCHID?!)