Countries visited: Japan, UK, Canada, Brazil, USA, South Africa, Egypt, Italy, Africa Joint Pavilion
(1) Japan: what this unique country means first is waiting around 2-3 hours in a long queue before you get in. After that Japan gives a very rich impression. There’s everything: cute Japanese ladies, nature beauties, tea drinking traditions, technology achievements with a robot who is playing a violin and a stage performance in the end. It was worth waiting in the line as you spend a lot of time in the Pavilion itself.
(2) UK: the long lines were bigger than the actual value of the Pavilion. In the end the UK Pavilion attracted with the peculiar pavilion building which nobody could guess what it is made of and what it shows inside unless you come in. Once this truth had been found out, you appreciate the great work invested and the idea, but the Pavilion itself wasn’t that special. However, after exiting the pavilion it had a nice relaxation area given for people to take a rest as well as you could wave your goodbye to David Bekhem, or to be more precise – his statue.
(3) Romania
(4) Canada: it attracted me with some indie music inside pavilion, then it led further to green city life with opportunity to use bikes and cycle there. Lots of water and a very touchy movie of life in Canada.
(5) Brazil: the feeling of Rio was there! The live city is around you! And also a feeling that you are in the football stadium.
(6) USA: It attracted with a very informal presenter from the beginning which was kind of American style, then there were couple of videos to see: people from street trying to speak Chinese; important people in America (including the president Obama) speaking about the importance of EXPO and the topic it dealt with this year; a touch video of how dreams can come true through lots of failure, but with lots of struggling.
(7) South Africa: nice place to take a rest in the cozy armchairs
(8) Egypt: to be honest I was expecting more than just putting up the ancient Egyptian heroes probably taken from Egyptian Museum. No current culture there, all information based on ancient Egypt mainly. Even the salesperson seemed bored there listening to his iPod and not paying attention to the customers who might have wanted to buy something.
(9) Africa Joint Pavilion: so much tribes and culture. Sometimes the joint pavilions seem more successful than individual ones as they give more feeling of the country. And especially in Africa joint pavilion you really feel like in Africa meeting African people, seeing the traditional buildings and places for rest, buying traditional souvenirs in a market place.
(10) Italy: lots of small elements exposed in 2 floors, miniatures of life, all fields covered what present Italy: fashion, pasta, shoes, Italian restaurants etc.; all kinds of brands, nice and posh and in the end the advertisement of EXPO Milano 2015.
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