report 13 -My Summer

 Hi, everyone! I haven't written the report for a while. Today I'd like to tell you about my summer. 

So here, school ended on July 20th, and summer vacation had started. It's too short compared to American HS. I was not really excited about summer vacation though cuz I'll have big tests after summer vacation at school, and I had to study. Also I went to school during summer vacation any ways cuz I had special classes for summer.

I went to my grandma’s house during summer vacation. She lives in two hours away from my house. It’s rural area. It was a long time to see her so I was super excited. I went there one day before my family went. So that I can stay one night at my grandma’s house. It was so fun to tell her about the US. She was really interested in it. And I made her dinner and she liked it. The night my family came over, we went out to have dinner. This is the picture. 

The next day, my other family members came to my grandma’s house. Actually my grandma is twins so there is a lady literally same look as my grandma. Don’t you think so??

We talked a lot and was so much fun. I had a great time. 

Summer trip w my sis

During summer vacation, I was planning to go on a trip with my old sister, Yui. My mom wanted us to go to Hokkaido. Do you know where that is? It's north part of Japan. And it's famous for good food such as seafood, beef, lamb, fruit, and ramen!! The temperature in Hokkaido is much lower than my town, so it was really nice to go there in summer. 

We've stayed there for three days. First day of the trip, I had to take an English exam before the trip. I couldn't concentrate on it because I was so excited for the trip right after the exam. And also it was just too difficult for me. I'm not sure I made it or not, but we'll see!

After taking the exam, my mom and my sis Yui came to my place. And I and Yui went to the airport. It had been a while to go there, and it made me so excited. It took an hour and a half to get there which is not bad at all. 

She was super excited. 

We went to the hotel to put our stuffs. The hotel we stayed in was good. We got two beds, a big TV in front of the beds, a bathroom which is clean, and a small fridge as well!! 

First night, before we went to have dinner, we went to the mountain to see beautiful scenery of Sapporo (the city name in Hokkaido). We used the “road train”(idk how to say in English but you know what I mean). 

It was kinda like the cable car in San Francisco ig.  We rode a rope ways to get the top of the mountain. It was already dark outside and the lights of the buildings had showed up which was so beautiful!! 

But anyways I had never seen such a beautiful view before. I highly recommend there!! It was kinda far away from the hotel, but it was worth it. It was so cold at the top I knew it was gonna be cold cuz we were in the north part of Japan. But I didn’t expect that weather... we were freezing:(  But it was not all of it. When we got to the top of the mountain, there were so many ppl tried to go back to the foot of the mountain. It was rlly long line to get the rope way. We tried to walk to foot of the mountain cuz like I said we were freezing and hungry as well. But the staff told us there might be bears in the mountain so they don’t think it was good idea. As a result we waited in the long line for rope way. 

Finally we got to the foot of the mountain!! It was about 9 pm. But there were still a lot of ppl who was gonna go to the top. We were like they gonna stay there at whole night lol I hope they all could come back safely. If you go there, I think you should go there whenever there are few ppl. 

After seeing the beautiful view, we tried to have dinner!! We were literally tired, and hungry but we went to out to have dinner! Like I said, Hokkaido has a lot of good food so we decided we gonna enjoy having a lot of dishes!! Yui decided to have ramen for first night. So we went to the city near to the hotel. And we finally got to the restaurant!! Ramen at the restaurant was amazing. It was literally the best ramen I’ve ever had. 

It was kinda late at night so we went backwards to the hotel and took a shower, did something relaxed and went to bed. First day of the trip was kinda busy but it was really fun. 

And on second day we woke up early in the morning altho we went to bed late at night. We went to the university which my grandpa used to go and had breakfast there. Then we took a bus trip to Furano. It was so nice to see beautiful scenery and seasonal flowers.I went to the beach a lot, either with my family or my friends. It takes only 30 min. It's fun just to lay down on the beach. Some beaches have a lot of people, but I know the beach that is kinda local beach, and is clean. These are some photos! 

The blue lake 

I really enjoyed seeing beautiful natures in Hokkaido! After the bus tour we walked around the city which is near to our hotel to find a restaurant for dinner. Yui wanted to have soup curry which is really famous in Hokkaido. So we tried to find it. But it was not that easy cuz we didn’t know where we are and we tried to google the place, but the buttery was low. And finally, we found the restaurant. At the time we were dead tired and our feet and all parts of body hurt a lot. I and Yui ordered the same menu, chicken soup curry. It was really good. I loved it. Because we were super tired it tasted much better than usual. The 2nd day was long day, as long as 1st one or maybe longer but I really enjoyed it. I felt a lot of natures in Hokkaido. 

Finally, third day, it was raining. So, we were worried that whether we could visit the city called “Otaru “or not. It seemed not to rain badly so we decided to go there. We left our stuffs in hotel and took train to Otaru. It took about an hour which is kinda far but not that bad. When I saw the ocean while I was on the train, I was so excited to see around in the city. Whenever we got there, it stopped raining, and I was even sweating. We walked around the city there were a lot of cute stores and restaurants which made me feel much more excited. Because Otaru is famous for seafood we decided to have lunch at seafood restaurant. I had sea urchin bowl. It needed to be eaten as fresh, so it tasted very good. It was literally the first time I had such a lot of sea urchin. It made me feel satisfied with seafood!! After that, we had much more food, desert of course and just walked around.

Then, we went to the airport just chilled out and got some souvenirs. 

The trip was really fun and I really enjoyed traveling in Japan as much as in the world! I hope I can go there someday again!!