We went to the East Coast trip from April 9th to 14th and I had a fabulous time there. I like Boston area better than Washington D.C. There were 3 interesting places that I really enjoyed in the Boston Area.
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| Undersized Mayflower Ⅱ | |
First of all, we went to Plymouth and it was really exciting. In the morning, we went to see the Mayflower Ⅱ. In 1620, 102 people came from England and they were called Pilgrims. They had a lot of reasons to come to the United States, for example they wanted to have their own land and they wanted to become rich. I was surprised, because the ship was very small but 102 people rode on the ship from England. My friend and I talked with people on the ship. We learned a lot of things, for example in the 16th century their morning greeting was "good morrow." They didn't say good morning. Another was they didn't call Japan Japan, they called it Cipango. I didn't know such things before I came to the United States, so I really enjoyed this time. Next we saw Plymouth Rock and it was nice. On the rock was written the number 1620. Now, this rock was one-third it's original size, because people tried to move the rock to the town. Unfortunately half the rock was broken. Another reason was many people picked up this rock for souvenirs, so now Plymouth Rock size is one-third it's original size. After that we went to the Plymouth Plantation and this place was great. We had a good opportunity to talk with the people who looked like real 16th century people. We talked with Pilgrims and Native Americans. In the Pilgrims Village, there were two kinds of animals like chickens and cows. Many people made corn or something in their own field. After talking with Pilgrims, we went to the Native Americans Village. They ate fruits and vegetable for half of the year. They made clothes from the fox and deer, and those cloth were the most suitable for winter season. They lived in two kinds of house that were called tipee or nisweetu. On rainy days they went to swimming in the river or made a doll in the house. I had a valuable experience in Plymouth .
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| Historical Orchard House |
Second, we went to the lovely Orchard House. We learned a lot of things about the Alcott family. There were three interesting points that I learned. First the Little Women book was written by Louisa May Alcott. This story was about their family, and some stories were nonfiction and some fiction. When we entered her room, we could see owl pictures. I asked our tour guide why there were owl pictures on the walls. She told me that Louisa liked owl, so she displayed them. Another interesting point was that I could see her white desk which was very small. I was very surprised to see that desk. She wrote the Little Women story on that desk. Next we went to one of her sister’s room. Her name was May and her room was a little strange, because her room was painted in blue. Her favorite color was blue and her eyes were also blue so her room was painted by blue. Also she drew the pictures on the wall. Finally we learned about Daniel Chester French. He was very famous in the US, because he made the Lincoln, John Harvard and Amos Bronson Alcott statues. He was one of May's students. I thought her family members were very skillful. I had a fantastic time because I could learn a lot of things during on this experience.
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| Celebrated Harvard University |
Finally, we went to the historical, beautiful and magnificent Harvard University and it was wonderful. We learned about Harvard University’s three lies from our tour guide. First Harvard University was built in 1636, but the record of sculpture of John Harvard said 1638. Secondly John Harvard was not the founder of Harvard University, the government founded it, but he contributed his half of money and books after he died. Thirdly was about the John Harvard sculpture. The sculpture was handsome guy, but nobody knows the face of real John Harvard. People don’t know whether his face is real or not. These were really interesting things for me. Next we learned about ice cream. Every dinner time, the ice cream was supplied from school to students. The reasons were Harry Elkins Widener graduated from Harvard University. After 5 years, he died, because he was on the Titanic. After this sad experience, his mother contributed money to build the library. She contributed another time, because she wanted to make students eat ice cream. Harry liked ice cream. Finally we learned about people. Japanese famous people who graduated from Harvard University include Princess Masako and Haruki Murakami. The US presidents who graduated from this university were Barack Obama, Theodore Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy and so on. Forty eight people got the Novel prize who graduated from this university. I was astonished that I heard the fact. All of this was a marvelous experience for me.
I really enjoyed my Boston area trip. I was very glad to learn about a lot of American history and culture on my trip. 
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