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Great Experiences of Portland Trip

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I had wonderful times with all extension student in Portland. In four days, I experienced a lot of things that I had never been before, such as talking with Columbia Basin College students, buying the items which made by people in Portland and enjoying at the huge bookstore. In these places, I learned a lot of new information and found amazing places in Portland.There were three places on the trip that impressed me most.
A great picture with students at the Columbia Basin College
First of all, I enjoyed talking with students in Columbia Basin College. My partner was a man who is 23 years old, and he can speak English, Spanish, French and Japanese. I was really surprised at his numbers of speaking languages. At first, I taught him how to make a paper crane. It was a little difficult for me to teach in English, but he was good at making it, so I could teach it. After, he gave me a bookmark which written his words. He thought about a long times, he made “haiku”. It’s like short poem. He also wrote a pictures with haiku. I was really impressed his haiku, and I was very glad to get the bookmark. After this activity, I introduced “Okinawa”. It’s my presentation topic. It was very difficult to explain about Okinawa, and also he sometimes looked misunderstanding. I thought that practice was very important, and I have to practice more. Therefore, visiting the Columbia Basin College was a great opportunity for me, and talking with students were really fun.
the lovely shop, the Voodoo doughnuts
Next, I felt that the Saturday Market was a fabulous place. There were unique shops that sold hand-made items in Oregon. I really enjoyed doing just window-shopping. However I found great items there. They were a passport case and a card case. They were very unique, because one of them was made of a picture book and the other was made of a magazine. These pictures were so cute, and I had never seen them before. After buying cute items, I went to buy the Voodoo doughnuts. The store was so popular, so I waited to buy doughnuts for about 50 minutes. I really like doughnuts since I was a little child, so I wanted to eat them! The doughnuts were so big, but I are two doughnuts easily. They were very yummy, so I was very happy. Therefore, I enjoyed spending times at Saturday Market, and I would like to go there again.
Amazing the Powell's bookstore
Finally, visiting the Powell’s bookstore was a precious memory for me. There were very lovely stationeries in the bookstore. I love to look for them, so I really enjoyed very much. However there was a huge bookstore that I had never seen before, so I looked for my favorite items for a long times, and couldn’t decide items I wanted to buy. Finally, I found the travel journal notebooks, and I liked the designs, so I bought them. I would like to write journal about some trips that I have experienced. I thought that if my house were near the Powell’s bookstore, I would like to go there every week. It might be not get tired of looking for books and items. Therefore, there were a lot of books and items and I could find the pretty journal notebooks, so it gave me a great pleasure.
To sum up, the Portland trip was exciting trip. The reason why I was excited, I enjoyed talking with a student at Columbia Basin College, and it was so interesting for me. In addition, the items which I could get in Portland were special. The hand-made items were so pretty, and I will never forget to visit such a huge bookstore! Therefore, I could spend valuable times in Portland, and I would like to go there again, someday.
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