Travel

Spain Day3

I finally finished my disseration! I’m free! And, oops, I was writing my blog in Japanese but have been lazy for the English version… now I have to catch up. So, this is about the trip to Spain, Day3. We went to one day trip to Sevilla. It is a capital city of Andalucia…it’s huge! But the buildings of pastel colours looked so European. Walking around, we arrived at Santa Cruz area. Narrow passages look so pretty. For the lunch, I tried gazpacho yummy! I liked its light taste, and I love tomato! After that, we went to the cathedral. […]

Art&Exhibitions, Life in London, Music, Theatre

Kodo at Southbank centre, London

I went to see a performance by “Kodo” (A group of Japanese traditional drum players). To be honest, I hadn’t seen any proper Japanese drum performance before, and I just went there because it was 50% off for students! But it was amazing. Just amazing. I thought it would be good when I saw the promotion video on their website, but you can never experience the sounds of “big drum” unless you go to see them. It echoes inside your body, rather than on the surface. It was like thunder. Another thing I liked about them was that they were […]

Art&Exhibitions, Travel

Portugal Day2

Portugal, Day2. (yes, it’s confusing but switch your brain!) It was the first day of the event, OFFF. There was a long queue in the morning! After waiting a lot, finally we went inside the place. There were some interactive installation, and, Microsoft was showing their interactive campus and “Surface”. Opening talk was by Neville Brody. (I didn’t know he was alumni of LCC…) But actually I don’t remember what he talked… Well, how things were organised was not so good, the sound was not so good… The first day was a bit disappointing. But the dinner we had at […]

Travel

Switzerland Day1

Now it’s Switzerland! It’s the first experience for me to travel around again and again in such a short period. Actually it was a field trip of the course but some of us went there a few days earlier. Taking a flight from Gatwick, it took only 1.5hours to Zurich. So close! We rent a car and travelled around. The first place we went was Luzern. It was such a beautiful city with lots of European buildings around the lake. Walking on Kapellbrücke, having a dinner, eating ice cream, we left the city and headed for Interlaken. It was a […]

Diary, Life in London

Wedding Party

I was invited to my friend’s wedding party. It was very nice ambience, and the couple who looked so happy made me feeling so happy too. It was the first time for me to attend a wedding party in the UK, but it was really relaxing place and I enjoyed it very much! When another friend played Japanese flutes, it was as if Japanese wind blew into the air in the UK, exactly representing the couple, it was so touching. It also made me miss Japan so much. The sound of her flute was so warm, I think I have […]

Life in London, Travel

Places I haven’t been before

Although it’s been for a while since I came to London, there are still lots of places I haven’t visited. They are two of them. Primark 😛 and St. Paul’s Cathedral. My image of Primark is cheaper Uniqlo. But they have more different designs than simple Uniqlo, so it’s fun to look around. But I had never bought anything because it always looked so crowded! But I’m going to Spain this week and wanted to buy some small things, so joined the friends going shopping there. Wow…everything was so nice price. To be honest, I don’t know about its quality…but […]