NEW CRÊPERIE CALL SWEET TIME IN GIRONA !

We are planning to set up a new business and we wish that it were a big success. Our plan is open a creperie which will be open 24 hours daily and that will be situated near the pubs and the discos in Girona in order to offer the best crêpes to the people who have just leave the party. We will cook all type of crêpes and you will be able to get one for only 2, 5 € and we promise you that it will be delicious. So as to advertise our selves we will go to universities and around Girona’s squares and doing some street marketing and giving some pieces of crêpes and some flyers to the people in order to inform them about our new business. Moreover, we want you to know that there will be tree employees who work during 8 hours each one to offer you the best crêpes all the day and all the night.

We hope you come and taste our crêpes!

A real geisha on the street!

Three or four years later my cousin went to Japan because he has two Japanese cousins who live there.

They were doing some tourism in a very calm zone when suddenly they saw a lot of people in front of a house door.

What’s going on? -They asked to a journalist who was there with a very big camera trying to make a good report.

A real geisha is going to be out from this door to in a few minutes, she’s going to do a very quick look around the house in which she is always working. – The journalist answered.

I’m sure you can imagine their faces, my cousin’s aunt had been living in Japan for almost 30 years and she had never seen one, and just that day a real one come out.

The journalist told them that it was an historical fact that only happened every three years approximately.

You can see a photo of her at the beginning of this post.

She was beautiful, wasn’t she?

Mireia Ceinos

ORIGAMI’S LEGEND

In Japan it’s said that if you make a thousand of paper cranes the Japanese Gods grant you any wish. The slogan of paper cranes in the fight for peace, is dating back to the history of one of the victims of Hiroshima bomb.

Sadako Sasaki was 2 years old when the bomb exploited in Hiroshima, her town. Nine years after, in consequence of the radiation, leukemia was detected in her blood cells.

While she was admitted in the hospital, she spent her hours making paper cranes because she knew the Japanese legend and she wanted to be cured. She died in October of 1955 after making 644 cranes. Symbolically, her friends continued making paper cranes until having a thousand because they hope that, with this action, the wars would be over and a monument would be built in the Peace Park in Hiroshima as memory of Sasaki and her cranes.

Every year, on 6 of April, thousands of paper cranes arrive in Hiroshima’s city and those are hanged in the Sasaki’s monument as a peace symbol.

Here we have a video of the latest dance of Reus Deportiu which explains this story with a very beautiful and emotive choreography.

Mireia Campasol

The kimono

One cans recognize the Japanese culture for a lot of things and one of these are the clothing, specially the kimono.  People, who don’t know very well this culture, probably think that there is only one type of this clothing. However, it isn’t. There are 4 types of kimono: the first one is called Yukatas and it is used in summer; the second one is Furisode which is used by women of a minimum of 20 years old; the next is called Houmongui and it is used by married women and the last one is Mofoku which is used for the funerals.

 

Judit Díez Delgado

Fukushima: commentary of a nuclear tsunami

On 11 March 2011, Japan lived the most devastating tsunami in his history.  The entire world was attentive to the news about this area. Now, Lluís Caelles and Sergi Vicente, TV3 journalists, in their book “Fukushima: crònica d’un tsunami nuclear” explain how did they live their experience there. In this book, we can know their routines in a danger place, the impact to interview people who had lost it all and the anxiety to be near to a nuclear power station which was runaway.

 

Judit Díez Delgado

Heidi Karaoke

To get used to japanese culture, let’s practise a karaoke song!!! Is there anybody who doesn’t know this song? Come on!It’s easy!

Fina

Projection in Hiroshima : Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko (born in Poland, 1943) is a public artist who has added a critical dimension to the problems of urban life through his projections on buildings all over the world.

In August 1999, his first “Public Projection” in Japan was held in front of the A-Bomb Dome,  is part of the  Hiroshima Peace Memorial Parkand was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Sitein 1996. The ruin serves as a memorial to the people who were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshimaon August 6, 1945. Over 70,000 people were killed instantly, and another 70,000 suffered fatal injuries from the radiation. Motion images of the hands of fourteen people, including survivors of the atomic bomb (Japanese as well as Koreans) and the youth of Hiroshima, were projected under the ruins with their voices.

Fina

Capsule Hotel-not recomended to claustrophobics

If you want to travel to Japan in times of strong crisis, don’t worry, the city offers you the most cheapest place to sleep! Is better for you to have a deep sleep because there’s not just one neighbour next to you and you may hear them snearing all night. To have a look at some capsule hotels you can click the following link:

http://capsuleinn.com/en/

On the page, you can also find an interesting Youtube link of 9 Hours Capsule Hotel.

Fina

Maid Cafés, at your service

Maid Cafés are actually very popular in Japan. Wich is the difference between this type of café and the one we’re used to? The main difference is how the waiters are dressed, in a funny way, each one dressed following her own style, like a maid in ‘manga’ version. The clients are the masters, usually young men that pass all the time in front of the computer and because of that they dont’ know how to chat with girls. That’s the consecuence of the ‘otaku’ culture(of manga and play station).

Here you can find several options of Maid Cafés where you can go to have a funny time in Tokyo:

http://www.cnngo.com/tokyo/drink/tokyos-best-maid-cafes-798315

If you want to know more, click here:

http://metropolis.co.jp/arts/pop-life/at-your-service/

Fina

Lisa See’s books

In this new post I just want to make you know about Lisa See’s books. She’s an American writer and novelist with a Chinese origin. She grew up in Los Angeles Chinatown and she has written a total of 8 books related with the Chinese world.

• On Gold Mountain. 1995.
• Flower Net. 1997.
• The Interior. 1999.
• Dragon Bones. 2003.
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. 2005.
• Peony in Love. 2007.
• Shanghai Girls. 2009.
• Dreams of Joy. 2011.

If you want to know more about Lisa See and her books click the link below:

http://www.lisasee.com

Hope you like it.

Mireia Ceinos