Admirable City Portland

I had a great time in the admirable city Portland. In the early November, I went to Portland as my study trip with extension students for 5 days. I could feel the history and beauty of Portland a lot. I especially enjoyed meeting people. Every experiences that I had was reasonable. I would like to share my 3 best memories of this trip.

My great friends!

First, on our way to go to Portland, we stopped Columbia Basin College. We had opportunity to communicate Japanese class students. At that time, I talked to 2 boys with my friend. At first, I was very nervous about its, because I did not think I could speak them well. However, they were so kind to me and we could talk about many thing, for example our dreams, Japanese and American culture. That was really fun to me, and I made really good friends. In addition, this experience made my confidence for speaking English with American people.

The cute earrings I got in Saturday Market

Second, I visited Saturday Market in Portland. There were many hand crafting and souvenir shops. I thought the market was like Japanese free market. I bought a pair of cut earrings that was made from broken skateboard. The owner of this shop said the skateboard was also made in Portland. I was very surprised about it. I really liked the idea that make new thing from old thing that made in the local area. I saw many more shops that were rooted in this city. I could feel the culture of Portland there. That was fashionable but not gaudy.

Finally, I went to Powell's book store. This bookstore is one of the biggest bookstore in the world. And it was just amazing! When I entered there, I felt like I was in the jungle of books. I had about 2 hours to explore here, but it was not enough to see around everything, because there were about 100 million books! I really liked the atmosphere in this shop. However there were many tempting books, so I took so many times to pick good books. After my deep consideration, I got 2 picture books for me and my nephew. The store was very crowded, but I could enjoy exploring the forest of ton of books. I wish I could go there again and spend all day!

In conclusion, I really enjoyed every single moments at my Portland trip.At the Columbia Basin Collegge, I experienced very good conversation with students. And at Saturday Market and Powell’s Bookstore, I could feel cool culture of Portland. I could felt culture of Portland, and got confidence of speaking English. It was the greatest study trip I had ever had. I want to use this experiences for improving my English and understanding American culture.

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