Mysterious Girl from Chiba – 神秘的千葉県女孩子

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I’ve always had a thing for girls in masks. Maybe it is because I am half Middle Eastern. Masks just make girls look so mysterious. From Chiba, a suburb of Tokyo, Tomumi lives in the hutongs of Beijing and studying at the Central Drama Academy, which she chose because she knew there would be few foreign students thus enabling her to learn Chinese more easily. She much prefers Beijing to Shanghai because Beijing has so much history. She describes Shanghai as a modern city just like Tokyo, but without the great shopping. Returning home in a few months, she will see her Chinese boyfriend, now studying in Tokyo.

我一直喜欢戴口罩的女孩子。可能是因为我是半个中东人。口罩就是让女孩子看起来很神秘!从千葉県,东京的一个教区,Tomumi[忘了问她日语名字的汉字怎么写]住北京胡同,在中央戏剧学院学习,选了这个大学因为她知道外国人少所以她能好好学习中文。跟上海比她更喜欢北京因为北京有怎么丰富的历史。她说上海是个很现代的城市,跟东京没什么太大的区别,就是在东京逛街更好。她等几个月回家,能见到她的现在东京留学的中国男朋友。

Nels Frye is a freelance writer, photographer, consultant and stylist, based in Beijing. Focuses are on street style, other consumer trends, and broader social issues.