paris?!?!?!?

Now, if i were to talked about every single joy that I experienced while I was in Paris you would be sat at your computer for hours, no, probably days. So, my plan is to divide it into points to make it a bit more easy for you to read and to help prevent me from rambling.

1. FOOD: There was practically a cafe, bakery, cheese shop, bistro, crepe stand, chocolate shop, winery, and fruit/veg stand on every street. It was overwhelming really. The place where we were staying was right above a bakery so we had pastries for breakfast um, every morning - FAB! Pretty much, the food was tasty, well presented and priced for the queen.

2. BUILDINGS/MONUMENTS: As our little gang strolled through the city it seemed as if there was some extravagant building, statue or garden on every street. They were all individually appealing and crafted with such detail and beauty. It is quite phenomenal to think that hundreds of years ago these building were designed on paper, without the help of computers and then built by pure human strength- they didn't have CAT tractors and huge, powerful machinery to help them out back in the day. Here is a list of where we went, from amazing to a little less amazing:

Le Sacre Couer - most beautiful building i have ever seen, it is truly breathtaking
Musee Du Louvre - the art;beautiful, the ceilings;magnificent
La Cathedrale Notre-Dame - stunning and spooky at the same time
Tour Eiffel - we went on our last evening and i have never seen so many lights, you could see all of Paris - amazing
Arc De Triumph
Museum D'histoire Naturelle

3:FASHION: There are no trashy people in Paris, I will tell you that right now. Everyone has some sense of style but mostly, everyone just knows how to dress themselves... I didn't see one muffin top! ( that is really exciting to me because i cant stand when people wear pants that are too low and too tight, so , hurrah!) On Saturday night I went out with my dear friend Emilie Lacroix and we went to this club...everyone= fashionable and beautiful! it was great!

4: MEN: As in most cities there were slimy, gross men but to balance it out there were some beautiful, nice, french speaking ones as well! HURRAH! I don't speak french let alone understand it, but i felt shy or flattered each time a stunning young man would talk to me, even if he was the waiter just asking what i wanted to eat.5: POO: There is a lot of dog poo in Paris, no joke. It is just on every tree, lamp post and garbage bin. This was the only sadness of my whole trip. but really, so gross!

W.A.

Workaholics Anonymous. This is where I belong.

I think im about to drive myself into overload again!! bahhh.

The problem is: I constantly have 5 or more things that i want to do!!
I know its realistically not possible to do all of them but my workaholicness is taking over once again. So I'm wondering right now what my priorities are?

Gotta set things straight!

hygeine

Haven't updated in ages. I'm so sorry!! okay something random I discovered recently...


So everyone knows that Japan is one of the most hygienic places... probably on earth. Everything is packaged at least twice or more, and baths are beyond essential for Japanese living. But recently I have found an incredibly shocking loop hole about Japan's hygiene!! That is, public washrooms!! (￣□￣;)!!

Okay, so I've encountered several time now where I walk into a public washroom (train station, department store, etc.) and find a nice clean stall. The toilet papers are all filled up, so far so good.

Then I go to the sink to wash my hands and everything seems to be going alright... until I push on the silver soap dispenser beside the sink and NOTHING comes out. So I go to check the others, but nothing comes out. I slightly panic. But I check the first dispenser again just to make sure, but still, nothing. Then, a small metal sign beside the soap dispenser catches my eye. It reads "umbrella holder"uh.... pardon?

An umbrella holder?? You mean it's necessary to have UMBRELLA HOLDERS at each sink but NO SOAP?! wow. that's great. -____-;;

So I wash my hands with just water rub my hands on the side of my jeans because of course there's no paper towels or a hand dryer. excellent.

You may think I'm being kind of a germaphobe about the soap thing, but it's surprising to me because Japan usually so meticulous about hygiene. And especially with the flu season coming on the rise public washrooms are one of the most prime places to catch germs!!

So these days, I've learned to carry some hand sanitizer around and a small towel where ever I go because you never know when you might end up needing it here!!

Adventure #234

I left London today and not with out drama.( it wouldn't be like me to do it in a calm orderly fashion.) Here is how the story goes:Last night a whole bunch of us went to this huge Halloween party and didn't come home until about 4 in the morning - whoever told me England doesn't do Halloween is a big fat liar- it was a great night; loads of fun! Any who, i was meant to awake at around 1o this morning so that Talulah and i could go to this little art gallery before i had to head to the coach station to make my way over to Manchester... we woke up at 11:45. Why is this a problem? My coach bus was leaving at 1:30, we had to leave at 12:45 to get there on time and i still had not finished packing. So, I quickly showered, packed and by the grace of God left the flat at 12:45 on the dot.Everything was going quite smoothly until we got on the tube and an announcement came on saying something along the lines of "this tube is terminating at the next stop, all passengers must exit the train at the next station." Why is this a problem? The station we had to get off at did not have a tube going to our stop resulting in us having to transfer three times in order to get to our destination... i arrived at the bus gate at 1:33- no joke!I calmly walked to the ticket booth and purchased a ticket for the next bus, leaving at approximately 5pm. AWESOME! Finally, after hours of waiting and then hours of sitting on a stuffy bus i arrived at the bus station!HURRAH! Was my aunt there to pick me up? No, of course not. How was she supposed to know that this bus line had switched terminals!!?? I hopped in a cab and payed another 7 pounds to get to where i originally was supposed to be. FABULOUS!Now, as dramatic as all of this was, it ended up being quite good. I enjoy the extra bit of chaos whilst travelling. It adds to the whole experience really.Now i am all safe and sound in my aunty's adorable house on a hillside drinking tea and eating chocolate biscuits - how posh!

Hold up, wait a minute, let me put my two cents in it!

I went clubbing for my 18th! oh man, what a blast! first of all, new fave drink, lemonade and vodka, sooo good. Second of all, i love black boys who can dance! It was such an interesting night, i went up to the bar and there were these two gorgeous boys ordering drinks. Yes, i defs want all up on that! lols. Anyways, i ordered my drink and then went back to dancing with all my friends. Then the next time i went back to the bar, again, these beautiful men just standing there is all their beautifulness. Because im not so in to approaching really gorgeous men that i dont know i walked away... but then, like twenty minutes later one of them came up to me and was like, come dance? and i was like...HELL YES! He was half black and had green eyes, please, how could i not! Anyways, the night was great and i just danced the night away!

oh... and there may have been some kissing......

xoxo
jd

Just touched down in London town!

Hey all my lovelies,

My adventure has begun! I have been in England for just over a week now and i have been non stop! This country is absolutely beautiful, straight up, its so good! I just got the train into london last night and am staying with my cousin in her dorm room for the week. London is pretty fab, loads of people all the time and unfortunately it is kinda smelly...but that is mostly on the tube( that is the equivalent to our skytrains). Today i went to Portobello Market which is in Notting Hill. It was kind of like a gypsy market. Loads of people selling crazy things from fur coats to old tea sets. Pretty fab!

Now to the good stuff. OMG! the boys here are sooooo beautiful. All of them!.... okay, well not all but I would say at least... 80 percent. straight up!

Unfortunately my laptop is being lame at the moment so i cant upload pictures but as soon as it works i will post loads...that makes me sound like i have been taking pictures of boys on the tube while they are not looking but i havent. the pictures are of england... and maybe a few boys... :D

peace out gangstas

holy sea-cow!

A month and a half after we parted from Miyako, Team Hidamari has united once again!
this time in beautiful IZU, which happens to be one of Japan's best diving spots!! from the boat we saw mt. FUJI and OSEZAKI isl. :D:D:D
mt. fuji was already covered in snow and looked so amazing. i think i turned a bit more japanese when i saw it! lol.

the first point we went to was like EEL-CENTRAL. x(
there were so many of them just chillin around in the water... ahh! but apparently, i was the only one that was disturbed by their freakishly long and thick bodies swimming around!
our first dive was 17m but the water was so COLD half way through the course i started to shiver in the water!

the second dive was a point called CORAL GARDEN and it was just that. the rocks at the bottom were covered in these long stringy soft corals! less eel and more fish here! woot.
saw some WILD GOLD FISH and ginormous sea urchins (the size of my hand). also saw some cute JASMINE OSEZAKI SEACOWS... we tried to look up the name of the sea cow we saw but couldnt find it so jasmine decided to name it after herself..lol

after our second dive we ate YAKISOBA on our boat and took a nice nap on the deck.

it was so sunny and warm 0n the deck... mmm.... sleep.

but after nap time was super active time!! we hopped on the banana boat for a spin around the bay! holy seacow! banana boats are so fun! i became party def from my own screams and my body is still hurting from getting flung off! We lost Passion on the one of the turns and had to go and rescue her lol...and Jasmine died from being in the front. good times all around




so this past weekend was so exciting! cant wait for this weekend's international party at Leafcup!