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At a crossroad, one can see the red signal and the other see the green signal.
Even if we walk for the same direction, our each steps aren't identical.

A few weeks ago, a girl asked me if I'm Japanese-Brazilian.
Well, I got suntan in Greece and now I'm having pretty brown skin.
So it's not completely a wrong thing to think of.
Although I thought it was one of the funniest questions I've ever been asked.

My mom was visiting me for a month.
So we went to some cities 6 cities in 2 countries, Germany and France.

During the trip with mom, we had experienced many mini dramas.
A Heart warming encounter, makes us laugh and smile but the other could be sad and irritating.

On the platform in Dijon, we met a Swiss gentle man.
"Are you two Japanese?", and surprisingly he asked that in Japanese.
He didn't speak perfect Japanese, however we communicated well using three languages.
As a farewell gift, he gave us some Japanese OKAKI. (OKAKI:rice crackers)
We were tired of European food at the time, we enjoyed it immediately on the train to Germany.
It was exceptionally tasty OKAKI in my Berlin life, what a lovely encounter!

Sometime Germans pointed us and made fun of us.
Very thanks to the improvement of my German, I could understand everything they said.
So, everyone. Please be careful.
If you want to look down someone badly, make sure they don't hear you otherwise we'll get upset and moreover... we feel very sorry for you.
That's the way it is.
And I know it's not only in Germany, everywhere in the world.
... Why don't we learn something from our history?

Traveling is fun but it can give us a lot to think about.
Learning the history, people, culture... and we can learn a lot from someone's behavior.

We have invisible walls everywhere in the world but many of us can travel through them.
Keep the door open and listen carefully, I don't want to miss even a noise.




pictures,
left : Avignon
right : Dresden (after this two of them waved to us!)