How I met Max #1

*There is "poor" english ver. below

How I met your motherっていう連続ドラマが大好きだったんだけど、今日はHow I met Maxを書こうと思う。っていうか彼にあったのは（信じられないけど！）１か月ちょっと前で、忘れちゃう前にちゃんと記録しておこうって思って。

結論から言うと、私と彼はネット上で出会ったの。Smart Shanghaiっていう外国人御用達の上海情報サイトがあるんだけど、そこにはフラットの情報（賃貸情報）とか、いらないものを売るページがあったり、今週こんなイベントがあるよとかっていう情報が載ってるもの。そこにDatingっていうページがあって、ちょっとした出会いを見つけられる場所。つまり出会い系サイト？みたいなもの。

前の彼氏がなんとも言えないロクデモナイ人だったから、ちょっと新しい人に出会うのは怖かったんだけど(ここは日本語だけ笑)、ちょっとした気持ちでプロフィールを作成してみたら…そこそこいろんな人からメッセージが来たわけ。その中にMaxはいた。

最初Maxのプロフィールを見た時、あら…珍しく学生さん！っていうのと、あーフランス人だ。っていうのが素直な印象。（その時私のフランス人に対する印象は最悪。フランス人に遊ばれた友達や話を聞いてたからちょっと怖かった笑）

でも彼の送ってくれたメッセージがちゃんと私のプロフィールを読んで書いているのが伝わってきて、彼と話をしてみたいと思ったのがきっかけ。

しかも彼がメッセージをくれた日は私がちょうどドイツ出張から帰ってきた日で、私の返信はそっけなく、しかも朝早くだった気がする。時差ぼけで寝れないの〜みたいな内容。笑

そこからwechatを交換して、私たちのやりとりが始まったんだけど不思議なことに話がすっごくあって、ずっとメッセージ交換してた。朝から晩まで。ほんっと仕事してるのかっていうくらい（笑）何がって聞かれると難しいけど、彼のメッセージはすっごく優しさが伝わってきたし、育ちの良さも伝わってきて、すごくいい印象を受けたの。

そこから大体１週間で実際に会う事を決めたんだけど、初めて会った日のことはまた次の時に。

I like the series “How I met your mother” and now I’m writing “How I met Max”.

I can’t believe it was only about one month ago when I first know him and I don’t want to forget about the first time I know him, met him so decided to write this. But it would be long so this is first half of it.

In fact, Mat and I know each other on the website called “smart shanghai”. This is one of really important website for the foreigner who lives in Shanghai. They update the latest news about here, we can find flat there, people sell their stuff when they move etc…. In that website, there is one page for dating to meet new people. I know some people think it is dangerous to meet people on the internet, but anyway it’s one of the ways to meet somebody.

Since I made the profile there, quite many people send me message, maybe the reasons are 1:“Japanese” are really rare on that website, and 2: I could speak English and Chinese. But none of these messages were attractive for me, because some of them start their message with Nihao! (你好。)and sometimes ask me to teach Chinese. Maybe these people didn’t read my profile at all….

But there was one message which was stands out. Yes, it was the message from Max. I could know he read my profile carefully and I could feel this guy is kind and gentle from the words. His message was really polite and was good timing for me! I received his message when I was in Germany as a business trip, and I read it when I had terrible jet-rag and couldn't sleep at 4 am.

My first impression from the message was really positive, but when I open his profile…Oh god..he looks really young and according to it, he is a student!!( he told me his picture was taken 3 years ago later tho). In addition, at that time, I didn't have any good image of French people (I’m sorry to say that but I heard some terrible stories from my friends).

Anyway, I believed my first impression of his message and I added him on my wechat. I was quite big challenging for me to start to talk with younger guy.

Since we start to talk, I’ve never felt about age with him. He is really matured, gentle and cute :) As he has many friends around my age, his way of thinking is much older than he is. His message was amazing and show me many things new things about shanghai and france. Around this time, we texted each other almost all the time from when I woke up until when one of us sleep. I already felt something special at that time, but on the other side, I was so scared to meet him. ( he might be disappointed with Japanese old woman!! )

Today, my blog is until here, but we will meet about after one week we start to talk on wechat! To be continued!!

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