It was a cloudy day off. Although it was in the end period of October, the daytime was still really warm for me (so, I even had a regret about wearing a long-sleeve shirt). This morning, at the park near my home the city's international association held a Halloween festival, and I joined a booth where a friend and two other members had the "origami art" exhibition. There, I started doing various works from those origami such as a crane (very difficult for me), a boat, and a flying saucer (guided by a book I had bought at DAISO).
At 10 am, the festival started and various people came to our booth and did their art well (they even made Pikachu's face and school backpacks!). After that, my friend allowed me to go around that park to enjoy visiting other booths, and I started walking within the park. At the next booth to ours, I enjoyed shooting a water gun. Besides that booth, many English teachers once had taught us English were there as staff with their fancy, charming costumes. One of them wore the one that represented a fairy (she said it was Tinkerbell).
Even though the situation was noisy for me because of the band sound from the stage (but not cynically, this could have come from my autistic brain's character), I enjoyed the mood of this festival very much. As you know, I'm just an employee of a company therefore can't see how many immigrants/citizens from foreign countries are living now in this city. But now, I can feel that this city has become a very international place whether you wish or not (of course, you must know which I choose).
After that, I went back to my home. This evening, I read Agnès Poirier's book "Left Bank [アニエス・ポワリエ『パリ左岸 1940-50年』]" a little, by which I learned how various authors and activists such as Camus and Sartre lived through such a hard time (in the World War II era). Then, the news about this election came to me as we had to change the current regime to an unknown one. I can't tell how it will be, so just wish that I could become wiser enough by reading this kind of great book.
