Echizen Washi

Last night I finally came back home in Japan. It took exactly 30 hours !!! from Viviane's to Fukui, our city, which was because of the waiting hours for transfer in Doha. But I again enjoyed the time both in the airplain & at the airport.

In the airplane from Geneva to Doha, I was lucky enough to take a seat in the business class ! A man asked me to change my seat in the economy because her wife was going to sit the next one of mine. His seat was for the business class. Carrying my backpack and wearing jeans, which looked unsuitable for the seat, I had a nice time and meal thanks to the person whose name I didn't ask !  The woman sitting next to me was a member of UN in Geneva. Thank you !

At the airport in Doha, I met a man from Osaka going back from Barcelona. He started talking about his life, who wanted to be a member of a guerilla when he was a junior high school student, studied Spanish in the university, found a job, quit the job, had a new business in teaching, invested his money on gold, had three children, started gambling, devorced, closed the business, and earns his money from `pachinko`, an unique gambling in Japan, now. He seems to be very smart person and very honest. I don't know who he is, but hope he spends his great life.

And today in the morning, I get back to my work, papermaking ! Thank you, my friends, my people, and the universe !

( Qatar Airways in the first pic, the second the night in Doha )