Profiter! - Enjoy!

Mais le mieux etait evidemment de profiter de tout le monde et aussi que tout le monde profite de voir Oscar, qui avait tellement change depuis notre derniere visite a Noel (il est notamment devenu une vrai pipelette!). Pour celebrer cela, Oscar a decouvert les bouteilles qui font "pop" et sait desormais les reconnaitre!

The most important was obviously to enjoy being with everybody and also for everybody in the family to enjoy seeing Oscar again, who has changed so much since our last visit at Christmas (especially on the speaking-side!). To celebrate this, Oscar discovered the bottles which do "pop" and knows to recognize them ever since!

Comme Louis n'etait pas la, il a appele Oscar pour organiser leur rendez-vous de la semaine d'apres (en France)!

As Louis was not there, he called Oscar to organize their appointment for the week after (in France)!

Et la semaine a passe bien vite, il etait deja temps de partir pour notre 2eme de vacances en France. Nous serons de retour a Noel!

Au fait, nous etions des chanceux d'avoir 2 petites semaines de vacances cet ete, par rapport a nos collegues et voisins Japonais: ici, les gens ne prennent quasiment pas de vacances, ils se contentent des jours feries (assez nombreux c'est vrai). Certains de mes collegues auront pris 3 ou 4 jours de vacances au total pendant l'ete, et encore pas de suite en general! Certains disent que c'est parce que les Japonais se sentiraient trop coupables de quitter plus longtemps leur travail, d'autres parce qu'ils ne sauraient pas quoi faire de tout ce temps de vacances! C'est vrai qu'on a l'impression que les gens ne font pas grand chose d'autre ici que du shopping pendant leur temps libre! Quel pays! Quelle aventure!

And the week was quickly over, it was already time to go for our 2nd week of holidays in France. We will come back for Christmas!

By the way, we were really lucky to have 2 weeks of holidays this summer, compared to our Japanese colleagues and neighbours: here, people don't really take holidays, they are satisfied with the public holidays (and it is true that there are lots here!). Some of my colleagues will take just 3 or 4 days off over the summer period, and usually not in a row! Some say that it is because they would feel guilty to leave work for a longer period, some others say that they would not know what to do with all this spare time! It is true that we have the impression that people spend most of their free time doing shopping and nothing else! What a country! What an adventure!