after six years I am back in Chicago, having xmas with old friends, fabricio, juliana and pheebs. a lot of things going on here, first time I see a segway being really useful and doing some window shopping at victoria´s secret main store

Pre-xmas environment at Umeå, Lucia is a traditional celebration in the Swedish calendar where kids go and sing traditional songs and give ginger cookies, also some images from downtown with the xmas decoration, and vanessa and me at the xmas party at the school.

Amazing colors!

The dock near the Design school

Back in Umeå, and the autumn is here...

Phillip Starck public lamps, they move like leafs when the night is comming...

Metz

Metz cathedral

Shiny luxembourg

Alex + Me + Harumi (my cousin and her husband) in Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Fashion DNA, very interesting exhibition inside a church...

Amsterdam by night

Me + Amsterdam

A m s t e r d a m
A m a z i n g ! ! !

Night landscape / Brussels

What is this guy doing here???

Brussels main square...

I scape for a week to warmer places...
...In my way to brussels...

Nice dinner with nice people...
...and a lot of chocolate...

At last we had a dinner IxD1 & IxD2!
(haishu and youla)

Full moon night in Umea

Even in Sweden they know "quecas"

On sunday I went to watch "cars", nice movie, dont miss it

Street market in Umea´s main square

At the wellcome party at designschool, Vanessa and Tallis

Back in Umea we went to dance with tallis

I have a nice surprise with the visit of tallis, a friend from Mexico who came for three weeks, here having a Mexican dinner at Hoa´s place

Back in Umea, just a weekend to rest and then start lessons again

Orebro train station, my last day over there

Later on I went for a very nice dinner

My birthday girls

I spent my birthday with my Hoa and Phoebe in Orebro, they cooked sushi and even made a cake for me with my name, I love these women!

The world culture museum is a must if you are in Gothenburg, the exhibitions layout and the content is amazing + is for free

View of Gothenburg

One of the Swedish versions of Starbucks: Condeco

Gothenburg´s tram

In the begining of July I went for a week end to Gothenburg, nice city with a lot of life and things to do...

Back after stockholm in the Atlas-Copco factory

stockholm´s subway

Stockholm: Street music, a familiar sound...

Stockholm; definitly one of my top cities

One tradition of Santa Lucia´s day (mid summer) is to make a crown with daisy flowers

During mid summer I went with some friends to Skansen in Stockholm. Skansen is an amusement park that recreates The Sweden of 200 or 300 years ago, preserving the culture and traditions alive...

During the summer my friend michal visited me at Orebro.., here in the natural park of Hjalmar, killing flies. The landscape looks more like Louisiana than Sweden...

I work during the summer for a hughe company called Atlas-Copco, which is a worldwide leader in construction and mining equipment, nice, very nice...

After finishing the school I had to run (well flight) to the south of Sweden, a warm town called Orebro was waiting for me...

In May two special girls came to visit me, my aunt and my grandmother

Just a shoot

After that graduations time... This is the graduation ceremony of my friends Hoa and Phoebe, in the picture and starting from the left: Fidel, Michal, Hoa, Kenny, Muriel, Pheebs and me...

After a looooong time, new pics at my blog...,
around april my cousin kenji came to visit my for a couple of days, nice self portrait...