Hokkaido love !!

well, kind of i knew that,

there is no really a reason for me to have a blog, i do not write anything anyway...

but since i have finished first semester of my exchange and today finally submitted the last report i may actually write something....

so, i think Japan is a very lucky country for me. Maybe that is why I love being here.
being here is very healing for all my complexes. like when it comes to my look, i hate having the long nose and envy all the Japanese girls their short cute noses, but then all of them hate their short noses and always say they want to have main. isn`t that strange about the people that they love what they don`t have.
Next, in Poland I was always feeling short, I was always one of the shortest in my class... but here everyone is almost like me :)

Other thing I love Japanese people`s appreciation for Poland. I am Polish so I guess it is nothing strange that I am always happy to see that my country is appreciated by someone. And maybe because in England I always get the feeling that there they rather dislike Poland due to the great number of immigrants I feel even more grateful to Japanese people to know so much about my country and to appreciate it. Last week I have been in Hokkaido. I have stayed at my friends` houses. one of the first things my friend told me when we have arrived her home, was "カロちゃん,これはポーランドでしょう？" and she has shown me a calendar featuring all the places connected with Frederic Chopin, great Polish composer. This calendar was given as a bonus with Hokkaido`s newspaper at the beginning of the year. When we went to the room in which I would stay, she has shown me really big collection of Chopin`s music CD`s. She told me that her father love`s Chopin. and when he heard that a Polish girl will stay at their home, he was really looking forward to hear me playing Chopin, but unfortunately I cannot play piano...
This evening I had a very interesting conversation about Poland with my friend`s family. I was really surprised how much they know.
Following they I went to yuki matsuri with my friends, when we entered the Odori side, the first thing before our eyes was a small Polish shop, and what was surprising inside were only Japanese people promoting Poland. so so so surprising.
then by the end of the yuki matsuri side there were a snow figures representing different countries, and Poland was between them, the UK wasn`t even there, but there was Poland! I really love Japanese people.

Next day I went to Asahiyama zoo with my friends mum. for the break we have stopped in really packed restaurant, opposite us there were sitting three older people. Me and my friend`s mum were talking in Japanese to each other, when we finished the meal and were preparing to go away, one of the people opposite us said, 日本語お上手ですね、どこからいらっしゃるんですか。Your Japanese is so good, where are you from? when i said Poland, they were really really happy and excited, oh we have been to Poland last summer, then they called some people from another table, come here, this girl is fro Poland, and what`s more her Japanese is so good. Two other men came "oh really? すごいですね、しかしも美人だね！" this 美人　I hear every time i meet someone new, Japanese people are really so kind, makes me really want 　to become 美人。and again a long conversation about Poland followed on.

Ok, let`s move to the next day, I went to the Historical Village of Japan with some other friend, after walking for a long time in a cold we have entered a break-house, we have received a cup of war tea and could seat by a warm fire place. There were three volunteer`s ojichan`s there. So nice and kind and just great! Again we could talk so so much about Poland, they knew Polish history so well, almost as well as I! and they were so happy to meet Polish person, that was first time meeting polish person for them (one of them has been to Poland so there he met lots of polish but never in Hokkaido) and what`s more this polish speaks Japanese so fluently (do I?), so they just couldn`t stop talking... maybe we were talking with them for about an hour... lol....

Following they was nothing special, met a new random person but he didn`t have more than basic knowledge about Poland, so he could not surprise me in any other way, just with the kindness... not sure if it was a magic of the valentines day but really Japanese boys can be really so so very nice, true gentlemen.

Then the last day of my stay, the last night i have stopped in a hostel. and again, a girl working there was heavenly happy finding out that i am polish. Why, well she studies Polish language and she loves Poland, she has some Polish friends and they all are so lovely and she thinks Polish boys are really handsome. she just couldn`t stop with her prices of Poland and polish people, and till late night she was showing me some Japanese short movies presenting polish people studying Japanese and so on...

really really so surprising and so nice time i had in Hokkaido. I must say i love Hokkaido!!!