I went on a wonderful East Coast trip with my friends from April 4 to 9. I especially liked Boston area very much. I visited three great places there.
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| Luxurious Beacon Hill |
First, my favorite pleasant place was
Beacon Hill. There were many high quality apartments, and many wealthy people lived there. In the old days, Louisa May Alcott who wrote "Little Women" lived in Beacon Hill too. I leaned about that book in class, so it was interesting for me to go there. The apartments were made of red bricks. They were old buildings but very beautiful. Many apartments had purple stained glass windows. They were also old, but pretty. There were many other interesting things in the Beacon Hill. One was boot scrapers. They were used when people go into the house, they scrape the mud off their shoes. They had very expensive carpet in their entrance, so people do not want to make the carpet dirty because of a dirty shoes. I was very impressed with that. Another interesting thing was that there were many antique gas lights in the streets. They created a cozy atmosphere. Also iron rails were interesting to me. Beacon Hill had many steep inclines. In the winter, people slip and fall because of frozen ground, so the iron rails helped people to not slip and fall! Beacon Hill had a sense of luxuriousness. Everything was interesting to me.
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| Big size Hot dogs! |
Secondly, I enjoyed walking along
Freedom Trail. It had some historical areas of Boston. We could see awesome
Old North Church on Freedom Trail. It was built in 1723. Its external appearance was white and beautiful. They had "boxes" for people to sit in in that church. I have never seen such a style and I thought it was very interesting and rare. They had a wonderful big organ. It was very old, but still working. Outside of Old North church, we could see the statue of Paul Revere. He was riding a horse bravely. We took a picture in front of his statue. After we visited Old North Church, we went to cheerful
Quincy Market. It was located near Boston’s waterfront and started in 1826. There were many kinds of restaurants there, for example, pizza shops, hamburger shops, ice cream shops, and Japanese food shops. Boston is famous for lobster, so there was lobster roll shop. Unfortunately I did not eat lobster, but some students ate some. I ate a big sausage hot dog with my friends. The sausage was very juicy and tasty. After that, we could find cute souvenir shop. When we entered that shop, the clerk spoke to us, "Are you from Japan? I’m worried about the big earthquake in Japan. Is your family fine?" I was very moved to heard that. At that souvenir shop, I bought some souvenirs for my family and relatives. I bought some chocolates, postcards, and some cute golf balls! It was three-piece set of golf balls with "I LOVE BOSTON" printed on it. It was for my father, because he likes to play golf. I really enjoyed to learning about Boston’s history and shopping.
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| Pretty Orchard House |
Finally, I enjoyed visiting pretty
Orchard House. It was the house of Louisa May Alcott who was a writer. It was a tiny house, but inside was cute and elegance. There were many books in the Louisa’s room. She wrote about 270 great books during her life. I found interesting thing in her room. Many owl pictures were painted on the wall of her room. She loved owls because of owls are symbol of the book. We could find interesting things in Amy’s room too. Amy was Louisa’s younger sister. Her room was painted blue. She liked blue. There were many sketching on the wall, and window frames. She liked drawing a picture. On the first floor, there was a orange pillow; it was not just an ordinary pillow. It was called "mood pillow". If Louisa was in a good mood, the pillow was up straight. If Louisa was in a bad mood, the pillow was laying down on the sofa. The position of the pillow indicated her heart. All things in their house were original, so they were vary valuable. I felt I was in the Louisa’s life. I was very happy to visit Orchard House.
I could learn a lot about American history and culture on this trip. All things were special and superb for me. I want to visit Boston area once more.
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