Goodbye Japan! Nov 8th

Today is my last day in Japan. To tell you the truth I .....WANT TO GO HOME!
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Kusatsu Oct 20-21

This weekend we went to Kusatsu. We rode the train for 2 hours to Kusatsu. When we got to our hotel I wanted to go in the swimming pool but we couldn't get into it until 3:00. We also couldn't get into our room until 3:00. So we tool a walk. We walked into town.

In town there was steaming water that smelled like rotten hard boiled eggs. Yuck! It wasn't eggs it was the smell of the water. My father told me the smell was Sulfur. The water was heated up by lava beneath the earth and it rises up to the surface and flows into pools. People soak their feet in it and put their hands in it and we got to take a bath in it at our hotel.

We walked to some stores down the street. Some guys were giving out free treats. But when we came he just kinda turned his back so we went by the other guy. My mom just kinda reached for one but he pulled the tray away too. They were only giving them to Japanese people. My mother and father told me that was prejudice. Prejudice is when people judge other people before they meet them. People are only giving things to a certain kind of people because the don't like people different than them self. It made me feel kinda bad because they were giving them out to everyone but people that aren't Japanese. In my opinion prejudice is not fair. But the good thing was that not all people are like that and when we went down 2 stores they were giving them out to everyone with smiles. We got two and I hate a half.

We also got to go swimming. When we went in the pools we had to wear shower caps. There was a girl there who was about my age. My father talked to her father. He said that his daughter spoke English. Her name was Rena in Japanese and in English her name was Marie. First we started playing ball together. Then we started doing flips and diving and jumping. I started trying to stay up (float).

That night we went bowling. We weren't keeping score. I even got a strike. We had fun until I got tired.

Tue-Friday Oct 16-19

Tuesday we went shopping and for Indian food for dinner.

On Wednesday we went to the Children's hall. I made a spider out of a cup in a crafts area. It was green, purple and black. We were going to do wood shop but I didn't want to.

Thursday was an easy day. We did homework and made plans for the weekend!

Friday we went and bout train tickets for the weekend. Then my Japanese teacher came and taught me many things. She expected me to know numbers, words and people after she said them once. At certain parts I was very confused and she didn't speak English that well.

Monday and Tuesday October 15th, 16th

On Monday we rode the monorail to Odaiba. That is a train on one track instead of 2 and above ground. That is probably what we will take to Disney Tokyo if we go (my dad says if I behave). Odaiba is where one of the biggest ferris wheels in the world is. We got to go on the ferris wheel... YAAAAY. We got to see Tokyo from a birds eye view.










We had crepes for lunch. They are almost like pancakes. Mine had some kind of custard and pound cake and strawberries and strawberry jam and bananas. And my mothers had bananas, whip cream and custard.

Tuesday was very disappointing. Because the world was boring. We went to the train station, again, and went to all sorts of places. My mother and I went to a children's museum but most of the kids were much younger than me so I got really sad. Most kids my age were at school. I was sad because I missed my friends at school.
Then we went town where we were supposed to go to an Aikido class but we got lost and couldn't find it. Its really hard getting around Tokyo when you don't speak the language very well. We found our way back to our apartment and slept until my dad got home.

Sunday October 14th

Sunday we went to a Japanese Garden with my dad's coworker Yuka. There where lots of ponds with plump fish in the ponds. They were carp. There were bridges made out of slabs of stone or rock.



On There was a rose garden with 2 ladies performing music with a violin and a harpsichord of some kind. There were lots of roses. Pink roses, orange roses, yellow roses, pink and yellow roses, yellow and pink roses, purple roses white roses and red roses.












And I took about 142 pictures.
Then we went to the aquarium and on our way we saw a monkey performing silly and not silly tricks. When we got to the aquarium we saw a seal and lots of fish, lizards and snakes. And some fish we've never seen before the most colorful fish I've ever seen.

Saturday Oct 13

On Saturday morning we hung out at our apartment. Then we left for the Ghibli museum. On a train called the Hibaya line. At the Ghibli museum there was lots of things to do.

I thought I was going to meet Hayo Miazaki because the museum was dedicated to movies he directed. He is a famous movie director here in Japan.
I got a shirt and some stamps from the movie My Neighbor Totoro. How to pronounce Totoro is Toe-Tuh-Row.


My dad says I was a real piece of work at dinner.

Friday October 12th

On Friday we went and shopped for groceries. We met my father at a train station that was called Kasumigseki. Then we went out for sushi because we couldnt find the restaurant that my mother wanted to find and eat there. Then we went back to our apartment and rested. Then we went to the park and I swung on some yellow balls.