Tosya : RICE CITY

صورة التقطتها في جنيف بسويسرا بداية العام 2015

I didn’t know when I was packing up in that room number 168, and heading to Lyon to get my visa to Thailand, I didn’t know that the flight which is supposed to take me to Bangkok will be taking me to Kastamonu. Moreover, what I have been looking for next to a lake far away in calm spiritual Thai place, I find it in this city lost between mountains and in its people generosity and smiling faces.

Every new place and an unexpected adventure is an exciting literary and artistic project. Things to write about here are limitless, pictures to take, spaces to take for yourself contemplating and getting in touch with you surroundings are countless. Tosya is the city of rice, of tea, of wood,  of smiling people. Here you are feeling yourself living in an ideal place with ideal people.

This is a city where you feel yourself in touch with nature, with angels with gods that you feels everywhere around you taking care of rice firms. It is a place where people are living with purity and innocence and where you will be invited every single minute to have a new cup of tea seems to be tasting different in this place. 

8 Things to know about SCIENCES PO Grenoble

EIGHT  Things that may surprise you  about Sciences PO .

or let's say 8 things I noticed about sciences PO Grenoble

1 -         The teachers' level and methodology. 

2   -         The students sociability (As these students are used to be known as the best students, they have been into their courses perhaps most of their time)

 3 -         The position French people are giving to  the school and its students (The  elite educational system is limiting  the students ability to create and imagine . Being science Po, ENA .. student seems to be the objective today)

4 -          The photocopy prices (100 pages / 7euro) (If you are writing your thesis and printing many papers, remember to  dedicate a budget for photocopies)

5 -         You will never  know where the class will take place, unless you are inside the room  attending it.

6 -         The two open spaces inside the building are just amazing and inspiring (having a seat there, you can write your papers, your plans, your artistic concepts…. / having a cool morning coffee and smoking a cigarette)

7 -         Erasmus students and Sciences Po students are always like water / oil , they can meet in a party or for “hi , bye” in the corridors and that's it.

8 - An exceptional academic atmosphere  in the building and in "DOC". International office and ISI are there always for you. (You will have a stand their every week also :) to buy a ticket for a party, a trip .... 

Erasmus program  stays one of the most innovative, productive and fascinating programs in  term of diversity, discovery  and learning…

These remarks are not to be taken too seriously, but also not to be neglected :) . 

JEJU ISLAND