training

Today I would to go to the concerts, but I had spent 8 houres on the training of the tai chi chuan. We practised chan si gong, it is a spiral motion of the whole body and each body part separately and at the same time. It is really difficult but important to do right the tai chi chuan. This training was additional so there were fewer people than usual. This pleased me because the coach could focus on each one of us and say what we were doing wrong. I'm really tried (but HAPPY) now and I don't what it my name is ;) and of course I'm sending this evening at home...

Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami is my favourite Japanese writer. He is genius, really ! For this moment I read all his books which are translated in Polish and French. Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. He grew up in Kobe, a port city in which particularly easy contact with other cultures. He is interested in the others cultures, he reads an American literature, he listens to jazz. He graduated from the Faculty of Drama Classical Literature at Waseda University. In the years 1974-1981, he had a jazz club. Now he is living in New York.

He made his debut as a novelist in 1979 Encouraged by Naoma Literary Prize for Beginners Writers continues writing career. The first novel, Hear the Wind Sing was available only in Japan for a long time. In this year this novel was translated in Polish. 

His books are interesting, it's a mix of the real world with the fantastic, but in terms of the subconscious and imagination of heroes. In his books, Murakami is not focused on action, but on the internal development of heroes.

The books which I recommend to you :

- A Wild Sheep Chase

- Dance Dance Dance 

- Norwegian Wood 

- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 

- Kafka on the Shore

- 1Q84

summer holidays

Approaching terrible exam session, but then they will be holidays :) This year, the holiday will be great. July and half of August outside the home, I'm going to camp of tai chi chuan, where they will be training all day of long forms and sword. Then I'm going to Belgium to volunteer, and then to Paris for the weekend to visit friends. I really can not wait :)

And you have any plans for summer holidays?

London

I was in London 4 years ago. I remember, this trip was really exciting because I had only 3 days for visit London ;). The pace of the sightseeing was crazy, but I had enough time for visit the most important monuments and places in this city (and for a cup of tee at 5 o'clock ;)). I saw the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, Parliament and Big Ben, the modern part of London with a skyscraper in the shape of "cucumber", I was also in China Town, known as Soho, I was sunning  on a lounger in the park Buckingham, I also saw Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. I was in a waxworks museum of Madame Tussauds, in a museum of modern art and in the national museum. The most I was impressed by the natural art museum. and the science museum, which were huge and the entrance was free. The exhibitions were fantastic, it was possible to touch them.
I hope that I will ever come back, because London also is impressive at night, I wasn't enough time to benefit it. Besides, I also dream of a trip in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper and Harry Potter.