Paris is getting colder, and she is stepping into the winter gradually. I heard that this winter, northern hemisphere is going to face the most freezing winter in nearly one thousand years... Will that be true? I thought that Paris would be a mild and warm place during winter because it has the weather that influenced by warm Atlantic Ocean! But I had a sunny Friday though, not that chilly.
We had a get-together in Edourd's, his room is just in front of Monmartre Cemetery. If if was in China, I won't dare to live so close to a cemetery; but here, as the tombstones are in different styles and it was brightened by the moon and the street lamp, it was not so scary. Under each tombstone, there is a man sleeps. He passed away and was buried, but I believe that his soul had already went to a place with freedom.
No matter he was a king or a beggar when he was alive, everyone's body would become ash in earth.
On Edouard's bookshelf, I found novels by Wang Xiaobo and Mo Yan. I like Wang's books, "Bronze Age". "Silver Age" and "Golden Age". And we girls like to talk about his romance in Pittsburgh. One of my girlfriends even went to University of Pittsburgh to seek her master's degree in literature just because she is so in love with Wang. Though sharing the same name "Xiaobo", Wang Xiaobo is totally different from the Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo; Wang is rather a philosophical thinker about the world. By the way, Wang had dead nearly 20 years ago in a traffic accident.
So many beer bottles! And I like this road sign of 18th district. Once 18th means unsafe and chaos to me, but now I think on the other side, 18th is a district filled with sense of art and life.
Is it a ground-hog or something? Anyway, Edouard introduced it to us, it's from one of his friend in Swiss. This cute guy can even sing songs if you press its stomach!
Here is our potluck meal: Floriane made the pizza, I made the tea-eggs, Kyroline made the Norwegian wedding-dish and brown cheese, Soo-Rae made the vegetarian salad and ice cream, Edouard made the Italian style fried eggplant... And we drank lot of vin rose and wine and orange juice and tea!!!
I love to chat with friends for all night long rather than party with noisy music, alcohol and even drugs... This kind of gathering makes me feel that we are not only friends, but are all members in a big FAMILY!!
Yes, Paris, I won't feel lonely any more.
