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.
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