photo update
I didn't post any pics for the past two weeks, so here's a quick update. (purea, I didn't forget about you!!)
Apparently its a very normal thing for them to play on our garden and sometimes even fight with Linda and Muta, the cats.
I was so excited to see them, haha. The other day there was one quietly sleeping behind our tree.
Two weeks ago, Nina, Katrina's mother (one of Maya's friends) invited me to go along with them for a walk in a park, near Bexley, I think. It was quite nice, very beautiful surroundings. I like Nina very much, she's Colombian, so we often talk in spanish. Well, there was a small river there, so Katrina and Maya played a bit on it. I mus add that it was so damn cold!
And this is what I mean when I say that my hair kind of looks like Ueda's. Me does not like that D: I'm thinking about going to the hairdresser tomorrow, because Maya has choir until 16:15, which gives me 7 hours to do what I want. I don't know which hairdresser I should go to though, there are so many nearby. I've found a pic of the haircut I would like to try, but I feel stupid about showing up there for the first time with a picture in my hand and say "i want something like this".
Now beware my lovely/cool new sneakers:
Bought them yesterday on Foot Locker. They weren't exacly what I wanted, but it seems that my feet are too small for men's sneakers! ;__;
I wish I had big feet and I could buy those white Nike ones I saw... So, yeah, I got this white Converse instead. I think they're made of some kind of leather? I don't know, but it isn't the normal converse cloth. They didn't have my size, so this is one size big, but who cares, I have inner soles. At least now I have shoes that don't kill my feet and they feel really comfy.
On Saturday I went to the Japanese temple of the budhist religion, Shinnyo-en. I was surprised to see that it didn't look like a temple at all from the outside, it looked like a normal english house. Its always interesting to get to know a new religion. I did read a couple of books about bhudism when I was younger, because I was interested in the philosophy. I met people from such different nationalies there, and a couple of French who were very nice. In some parts, it reminded me of the Taizé meeting, which I loved so much. The chanting, the meditation and sharing of testimonials. In the end, they asked me if I would like to get connected and I replied "not yet". Get connected means to be able to join the meditation sessions and such, the point being to elevate and eventually achieve the Nirvana, which is very rare. I take this subject very seriously, considering that I was a catholic for so many years and only stopped practicing 3 years ago. I don't want to become a bhudist just like that. Although I share some of the believes and I do enjoy the meditation and chanting part, I need to read more about it, get more information about anything and everything, before making up my mind.
The temple:
