I had a really wonderful experience on my East Coast trip on April 6 to 11. I especially enjoyed the days in Boston. There are many historical buildings and interesting places. I would like to tell you about three marvelous places.
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| Small Orchard house |
First, I really admired Orchard house. It was lived by Louisa May Alcott and her family. She is famous as writer of “Little Women.” This story is based on her with her family. This story was translated into many languages. In Japan, we know this story as “Wakakusa Monogatari”. She never married in her life because she liked to take care of her family. She is also famous as a woman who supported for women’s right to vote. The most interesting for me is that the house was very smaller than I imagined but there are many rooms in the house. In Louisa’s room, there are many valuable things for example, her writing desk, many books written by her and many owl pictures and arts. The room of her sister, Amy is famous for the painting on the wall. The Alcott family has many roles created by the father, for example, they should act promptly, be cheerful, do not question, act in obedience and so on. Another things, there were small souvenir shop in the house. The shop sells a lot of books written by Louisa May Alcott, for example, of course, “Little Women,” “A Fairy Tale,” “Good Wives,” “Eight Cousins” and so on. I read “Little Women” in my Reading class and I am really interested in it, so I could enjoyed it and had a good experience with my studies. I had a really good time there.
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| Exciting Pilgrims village! |
Secondly, Plymouth was enjoyable to me. Plymouth is the place where a group of 102 people, called Pilgrims came in the small ship named the May flower in 1620. They escaped from England because of religious problem. The people had a hard time in the New World. During the first winter, about half of them died because they got sick or there wasn’t enough food. In the spring, they met some Indians, named Samoset , Squanto and Wampanoag. Then, these Indians became friends, guides and teachers to the Pilgrims. In addition, Plymouth has a very interesting place called, Plimoth Plantation which is the 1627 Pilgrims village. In this village, there are many actors who play the roles of Pilgrims. Their living was very poor and developing. Also, real Indians still lives in this village. They farm the land and hunt the animals. I felt Plymouth is very historical place, so you can learn a lot of history of America!
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| Beautiful Harvard |
Finally, I was impressed with very famous and historical Harvard University. I went to there on the third day, and I had a really great time. Harvard has a reputation for excellence all over the world. It belongs to the Ivy League, an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States. It is also famous for its liberal arts. The word written on the school logo, “Veritas” means truth. On the campus, there are many amazing buildings. The library contains nearly 15 million items. It is the second largest library in the United States. I was really surprised at the size. It was really huge. The church is so beautiful. The steeple is a copy of the Old North Church. Harvard also operates several arts, cultural and scientific museums, for example, The Fogg Museum of Art, The Arthur M. Sackler Museum, The Busch-Reisinger Museum and so on. Also, many famous people in the world graduated from the Harvard. Seven U.S. president including Obama graduated from Harvard. Surprisingly, Japanese princess Masako is also a graduate of the department of economics. I really enjoyed and marveled so historical Harvard.
I was so impressed by these special places. I really enjoyed my time and studied a lot of history of America. It was an absolutely unforgettable memory. I will study more, putting these knowledge that I learned on this trip to good use.
