Happy Chinese New Year everyone! This year is the rooster year ("coq" in French)! In Vietnam, we don't call it "Chinese new year" but we call it "Têt". I wish I was in Vietnam to celebrate Têt just too see how happy the country is and how happy people are! So, this is how it looks in Vietnam, at night during Têt. I'm amazed : if I could live there for years and years...
Fortunately, Paris 13 is the district where many Asian people live. I don't often go to this district except to buy Bubble Tea or sometimes, Asian food. This year, I went to the pagoda with my parents and my cousins. I really love going to the pagoda even if it's not the new lunar year. It brings me luck. Normally, all my family (my cousins, my aunts and uncles) and I would gather together at my house every year to celebrate Têt. Unfortunately, we all had some issues but I was happy to celebrate it with my parents. I really hope this year is my lucky year and obviously, yours too. Each year, for 3 or 4 days, you have to eat vegeterian food following the tradition. Ask your parents to make you many delicious vegetarian dishes so that you feel really fit afterwards. Forget the hamburgers, fries and all those food your health. Be careful, I'm not saying that you SHOULD NOT eat that, you can but not 3 times a week for example. You could develop many diseases such as diabeta... It feels good sometimes when you only eat vegetables. Many customs are practiced during Tết, such as visiting a person's house on the first day of the new year (xông nhà), ancestor worship, wishing New Year's greetings, giving lucky money to children and elderly people, and opening a shop.
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Last year, in December 2016, my family & I went to the Grand Palais where you can do ice-skating every year. Actually, it only happens once a year during winter holidays (especially for Christmas). You normally go there for painting exhibitions or clothe exibitions such as Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint Laurent. During a year, a wide variety of things occurs in there, in Paris, France. I don't have time to go there or because sometimes tickets just to see exhibitions are expensive, more expensive in Paris. But for tourists and people living in Paris btw, I really recommend you to go there just to enjoy seeing beautiful monuments as the Grand Palais is near the Eiffel Tour. At least, you have to take the underground or if you want to, you can walk. It's not so far from the Grand Palais. So I guess it won't be too long if you take the metro. If you have time, just come to visit Paris (during winter or whatever season you wish) and enjoy your trip and pictures I post on this blog! While I'm studying, I try to create a "vlog" about the Grand Palais and how I skate. I count on you, guys to check it when it will be out ! Seeing this pictures make me want to go back to December and enjoy the Christmas holidays. My cousins and I got many gifts (thanks to my two cousins who are sisters). Just in front of the Grand Palais, you have the Petit Palais which DOES NOT MEAN that it is little. The Petit Palais is as big as the Grand Palais. I'm amazed (even though I'm French), weird ugh? I don't feel like I was born in France when I took all those pictures. I'M AN ASIAN TOURIST. So now, do you believe me when I say that the Petit Palais is not a little Palais but a big one as the Grand Palais ?
Address : 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris Website : http://www.grandpalais.fr/ 2016 : Just landed in Vietnam at 09.00 AM instead of 07.00 AM (due to the delay). I can tell you guys that I wasn't used to the jet lag. Taking off from France and landing in Vietnam: days are so different because of the jet lag. Anyway, I stayed for 3 weeks there, travelling back and forth: Ho-Chi Minh City to Hue and to Đà Nẵng. It's not my first time that I've been to Vietnam. I went once in 2014 and the other in 2016. I was amazed back then. In Hô Chi Minh City, there's Saïgon. Saïgon, and other cities as well, are too much crowded due to scooters, cars. Be careful, if you go there, wear a mask (pollution). But, there are a lot of thing you can do. For example, you can eat at the restaurants (don't laugh at me because I'm eating too much lol). I went through Saïgon, the malls and Saïgon's market where there are cheap things. It's so cool, you can buy whatever you want and enjoy. |
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