C. Sun

Norwegian born Chinese, French student on exchange in Japan.

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Again, this is not a cat blog! I’ve been really busy lately, enjoy this über cute cat music play thingy while patiently waiting.

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10月29日 - 10月30日 Aso

29.10.16 - 30.10.16

This weekend I went to a small town called Aso with my lab professor. 2 years ago, a team from his lab were one of the 2 winner teams of a community house for elderies competition, comissioned by the hospital. They started building it this year, and we were invited to participate in the final stages of its construction. The final project being a mix of the two winning teams, the Korean team especially joined us, coming all the way from Seoul! Only 2 members of the original Japanese could join. There were in addition 2 Chinese, 1 Dominican and 1 Indonesian students aside from me. We were a pretty international group you can say!

Once on site, after a 2 hours-drive from Fukuoka, we were divided into two teams: The footbath team and the gardening team. I was part of the latter. Being too many for what that actually has to be done, most of the time half of us were standing around watching the other half working.

^ Yes, that is going to be a footbath. How awesome is that.

I have my doubts about the grass being actually able to grow, but we were told to place the grass tiles with a gap in between which are then filled with sand. Weird.

In the evening after the first day of hard work, we went to relax at a really small onsen in the hospital (hot spring/public bath), then dinner and get-together at a local izakaya (gastropub). This small weekend trip was really fun, and I met awesome people!

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Aso being in the Kumamoto prefecture, which was hit by an earthquake in June, we also saw the aftermath of the disaster. Roads had been somewhat patched up, many houses were still in their collapsed and abandoned state. At one point there was an 1 meter level difference passing right through the road!

We were also able to visit a site of temperary housings for people who had lost their homes during the disaster. It looks kinda depressing right? Temporary housings will coincidentally be the subject of my project class this semester, it was interesting to have a first preview. I will be back in Kumamoto later this week with the Studio to look more into the housings.

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I’ve been addicted to this phone game for the past week… Basically I send out cats to bring back money and with the money I buy more cats. And there are 100 different ones. This is my 20th cat!

( I promise promise this is not a blog about cats!!! )

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10月21日 Ainoshima

21.10.16

Day trip to Ainoshima, otherwise known as cat heaven.. Yes, inhabited by more than 100 stray cats!! Mainly around the port area, we barely walked 10 meters after getting off the boat and already stopped and started the awww-session.

The animals are so used to humans that they will follow you and beg for food if you take out your lunch.

Successful day with a lot of cuteness overload!

It may not seem like it, but I promise it’s not a blog about cats only...

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A cutiepie of a cat named Indie that I looked after for 2 weeks in Paris and probably will never see again... It was my first time ever living with a cat, and I can definitely say that I loved every aspects of it! Even the constant meowing at night during heat (or maybe not). Adopting a cat is definitely one of the first things I will do when I finally settle down!