Welcome to Paris? 

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This is September 17th 2013.

I am heading to Paris, France from Kosice, Slovakia.

Former plan somehow changed into long Europe travelin. Now I was supposed to be back in Bratislava and keep studying my dear Korean studies, but during june new option appeared to me. One year of these studies were really some stuff to do and seriously pretty enriching and impressing. I got to know a lot of people whose characters differed a lot but any bad experience is good one as my english teacher used to say :D Along with that I ve got strong basis in korean language and chinese is no longer a bunch of pictures for me. But I decided to interupt my studies in order to travel and earn money as much as possible to have enough for my further studies. I intend to continue at Charles University in Prague or something like that :)

But back to this day..

few days ago I started to pack for this journey with difficulties since I may take only 10kg cabin cabage and 25kg suitcase. In any other case it would be enough, but to pack for winter time is always more complicated. To take sweaters and all those heavy cloths, really no fun. Moreover I gotta take my books so as I can keep studying in France my dear languages and so as I am prepared for futur university.

Now as I look trought the window it s damn rainy out there, as well as in Paris. 14degrees I suppose ? not so much really and windy why so when I wanna get there in peace..Anyway it s quite emotional to leave my dearest and go to a brand new world but I hope it s gonna be ok this way..

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Drew a deep breath of fresh air coming trough window behind my back. It is rain that makes me feel, that makes me surrender, not to think. Eyes still closed, don´t wanna wake up for few more seconds. I feel safe, in arms of my beloved one. Warm, soft touch, embrace in which I am lost not knowing the diference between reality and dreamin. Holding almost squeezing my little hippo toy 하마 hoping it is not the morning yet and than definitely being woke up by kiss on a forehead with the sweetest good morning.. I don´t wanna leave.That was the first impression this morning.Is this right? Do I wanna feel alone or what it s gonna be actually? Paris, the city probably everyone wanna see once in a lifetime. I m gonna be there for third or fourth time I guess. Maybe that s the reason I m not so enthusiastic about whole this thing and yet it s hundred percent different. This is no longer a school trip or hang out with friends. This me and myself going to place that I know and yet it can surprise me to live there. To find a job, make it my home for short period of my life..

5 hours to Bratislava by train are almost done. I m gonna get off soon, so I ll write probably from Paris later on.

Moreover!
from tomorrow till 20th sept. it is CHUSEOK tiiime !!
to those with no idea what s this all about, let´s sum it up into few facts;
 Chuseok :
is 3 days off to celebrate harvest, food, fertility and so on :)      



and so..
I seriously need to find some korean restaurants in Paris which I ll definitely visit and I ll provide You full review.

Chuseok vocabulary

... to be continued ...

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Trypophobia

                              Trypophobia

         Can´t You just withstand one glimps at those holes ??

You are the One

the person that feels anxious while looking at any kind of hole, dots with high contrast or any object like that ? 

Look at these and tell me what do you feel ? 

 I have quite difficulties with this article since I suffre a lot from this phobia since my childhood,

but let´s do this.

I feel stressed, nervous, my body shakes, body temperature rises, I cant focus on anything, I feel I need to run away, need to close my eyes, every part of body itches, I simply cant withstand looking at such stuff.

For a long time I had nightmares where I was forced to look at these things, but I was considered child that requires a lot of attention only...

Well now it is officially recognized as phobia, to be exact : 
The term trypophobia, sometimes called repetitive pattern phobia was coined in 2005, a combination of the Greek trypo ( drilling or boring holes ) and phobia.

Why is this happenin´?

Geoff Cole and Arnold Wilkins, both researchers at the Centre for Brain Science at the University of Essex, decided to analyze the characteristics of the images that appear on the trypophobia.com website.

He did some research on images of certain animals that evoked fear in some people, but why some combination of colors and contrast creat such a reaction ? After having consultation with one of his clients that claimed to feel fear while looking at blue-ringed octopus he got an idea that all the animals are extremely venomous.

And that gave him an idea. He searched for images of other venomous animals, and once he had found several, he showed them to his visitor. "He couldn't look at the images," says Cole, because they elicited the same phobic response as an image of holes.

So Cole decided to analyze the images of the venomous animals and found that they had the same unique characteristics as the trypophobic images he had already analyzed.

What does this mean? Cole speculates that when someone with trypophobia sees an image or object with holes in it, it stimulates a primitive portion of his or her brain that associates the image with something dangerous. He says you can think of it as a kind of unconscious reflex reaction that happens faster than the conscious brain can say, "There's nothing to worry about."

In other words, trypophobia may be the remnants of an evolutionary adaptation that made total sense: If you see a venomous animal, get scared and move away as quickly as possible.

Maybe You are not aware of this in your life, but research results are sure that one does not have to possess sever reaction, but 100% of all respondants, wether they suffer from it(this phobia) or not, find these objects as less confortable to look at than the others. It looks like we all have it deep there somewhere in our brain. This part of evolution that just want to make us aware of potencial danger, even though it no loger represents a real one nowadays :) 

Now some more disgusting stuff !..

Since I am quite ´´Everything about Korea´´ fan

I searched even further

And OMG 

how disgusting stuff I ve found.. 

There goes a story, a legend if You prefer.. 

´´Cosmetic Sesame´´

The story goes like this: Somewhere in Korea, there was once a girl who is willing to try any method out there just to make her skin better. One day, she heard from a friend that putting sesame seeds in your bath water will be good for your skin.

Worried about her skin getting old and wrinkled, the girl tried this method right away. But after a few hours, she didn’t come out of the bathroom. She’d only reply, “Just a moment!” when someone tries to enter. Her mother grew suspicious and forced the bathroom door open.

What she saw inside really shocked her—on her daughter’s skin are innumerable amount of sesame seeds that attached themselves between every small wrinkle and every pore and had started to grow roots. Her daughter seemed like she had lost her mind and was frantically trying to remove the seeds with a toothpick.

seriously I can´t write any more..

If You wanna know how bad it is with You 

try some trypophobia test :) 

I kind of don´t think this article could be enjoyed but anyway I hope You at least learned something new :) 

As requested I add one more thing, the video that makes me sick and is commonly used as trypophobic test.

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