After coming back from Rennes for the CNY celebration, what i did was staying at home, relaxing, and do my project. It's actually quite enjoyable when you take your time to write the program and see the result of your program. But i don't think I'll enjoy it in the next few days as I'm running out of time :p
Then, i went back to my hometown in France - Angoulême because coincidently, the 36th Angoulême International Comic Festival was organised from Thursday to Sunday during this week. Two chinese friends, Du Jun and Ma Yi whom i helped to translate 2 years ago invited me to help them again this year. So between project and friends, i chose friends :D Moreover, they paid my expenses to Angoulême, so I was too shy to reject them.
My main function was to help them to do the translation between Chinese and French. It's a tough task, but I'm happy because I've finally done it and help them through the whole festival. Although my french level is still too low to do a perfect translation, i still got a lot of praises from those French artists and editors for my translation, especially when they knew that i was only a student who helped without being paid, kinda proud of it. I've learned a lot of things from this trip. Practicing my French is 1 thing. I also learned to do business, talking bout contract, buying copy rights etc. This trip also tells me that marketing might be my future path, 'cause i find it interesting and I have a powerful tool - languages. But of course I'll finish my engineering course in ESTACA first.
This year's festival is a little bit smaller than previous years, maybe because of the economic crisis. But still there were still a lot of people in Angoulême, I think we can only see this scene 4 days a year. Last night, almost all restaurants in Angoulême were full, we finally managed to find 1 after entering more than 6 full-house restaurants. those western comics don't interest me much, cause I'm more to japanese mangas. So i just simply looked around without buying any comic. But it's interesting too see different culture through comics from different country. Hmm, i think i can show you a kind of comic which is very popular in France, why show you? because you cant see it in Malaysia :P
