Carte de séjour - still continue

I've got my récépissé renewed for another 3 months this morning. It only took us a half an hour waiting in the office. (15 mins outside)  It went very smoothly.

The lady at the desk told me about the current status of my carte de séjour - I should receive the letter for collection very soon. That's a great news. 
As I am currently on the benefit, I have to hand over the copy to the French version of job centre(pole emploi). 


I can now relax a little bit.... once I get the 10 year card, I should feel much better!

Carte de séjour - continue

As I went to prefecture for renewing my carte de séjour in mid-October, I've got a receipt that's valid for 3 months. You usually keep it together with the old carte de séjour until your new one arrives.

McDo's Hot Apple Pie

Look!! A friend of mine sent me these before Xmas! These are mini size object of McDonald's products. Apparently you'd get one, when you buy the menu at the restaurant in Japan.  (Thank you K-san!)


In France, they'd call it McDo (pronounce it like Mac Doo), rather than Mac.. it's funny, as it's same in western Japan, like Osaka. In Tokyo, it's called Mac.

Happy new year 2011!

Wishing you all a happy new year! 
Thanks for visiting my blog. I hope to keep on writing my blog whatever cropped up my mind as often as possible.

I hope whoever read this blog enjoys reading as much as I enjoy writing to you.

Dancing Queen (Moroccan version)

The sing-along musical "Mamma Mia" has just been launched in France in French version. Saw the making of Mamma Mia the other night and I discovered that it has already been played in 13 languages, even in Japanese!

It's the musical which my-then-boyfriend (now hubby) invited me to in London and we enjoyed so much. Well, today's subject is not quite about this musical. It's a morrocan version of dancing queen.

Carte de sejour - French visa renewal

As a foreigner, renewing the visa is one of the most daunting tasks you'd imagine: You must make sure all the documents are sorted (I mean you double, triple check), hoping that the person who deals with your case is nice to you and not picking on your small things. 

a big wedding in a little village

la magnanerie de seillans

We have been invited to a wedding of a Japanese-English couple here in South of France over the weekend.
It was lovely to see how their relationship grew and led to mariage.  On that very special day, we were as happy as everyone else there to witness such a lovely ceremony.