Visiting Tower of London

I went to Tower of London yesterday with my friend and teacher. After getting off the train, we went to there on foot because fortunately,  it was lovely weather to walk!!! We were lucky! Yeah! On the way there, I saw Big Ben, which is very popular and symbol in London I think, London bridge, which is occasionally opened to let big ships go through the River Thames, and London eye, which you can see overview of London.

Now, I would like to introduce the topic I recommend seeing inside of Tower of London.



First is the Crown jewel exhibition witch displays many types of crown which the King and Queen wore at the opening of the new parliament. The crown which has the most amount of diamonds is The Imperial State Crown. This is worn by the Queen Elizabeth and it has 2,800 diamonds!! It is amazing!!! It seems that the crown is the most famous and powerful symbol in British monarchy. The head of parliament in Japan doesn't wear these precious. So, the British culture and history is far deeper and older than Japan.

Second is the coronation spoon!!! It is really gorgeous!! I can't believe that I would spend too much money on it. However, this spoon is worth spending much money. This spoon is made in 12th century, so it is nearly as same age as Tower of London.

( Nobody can take a photo in this exhibition, so I quoted from the official website of Tower of London.)






Third is Coins and Kings. Inside of this museum, you can learn about how they used to make money. They used to make money by extracting the metal, melting it, and arranging the shape. They used to spend much time to make it, so it was very hard work, but now people make money by machines. So it is more useful than that.

Tower of London, which has very deep history and culture in England, is almost 1,000 years ago. Japan doesn't have these culture and history, and the head of parliament never have the Crown and Sceptre!! The Japanese culture is definitely as different as British culture.

Refresh weekend

Chilling   Dreaming of Disney   3   Apple   Walking




This is the words which explain this weekend.


I stayed at home this weekend and didn't the special things. This weekend was just for relaxing and refreshing, I think.


On Saturday, I went for a walk for 30 minutes in the morning!! There are lovely golf course which anyone can walk freely behind my house. This is one of my favourite place in English. After that, I took a nap for 30 minutes in my room as I was tired. After lunch, I had a sweet apple cake my mom made and a cup of coffee. It was exactly nice combination, and I enjoyed it. Then, I watched "Night Museum", which I have watched before in Japan, and it is very useful to practice English, specifically for listening because I have already known the story of it, so even if I can't catch the conversation, I can understand. It was very funny and interesting because it is the creative and fantasy film, and makes me dream the unreal world. Especially I like a pretty monkey which is very cheeky and wicked against the host at fast, but getting more cooperative gradually. I took a nap afterwards to give my eyes a little break.




On Sunday, I cleaned my room up, and watched "the Lion King" with boys in the morning. For lunch, we ate a noddle which reminded me of Japanese food and taste. Then, I read a book which is the same series as I have read since about 2 weeks ago. I like it.
I had supper early, and watched "Tangled", it is a kind of Disney film. I massively love it because All of Disney film have a lovely dream!! Most of girls would dream that I wish if a prince would appear in front of me someday...hehe
Totally, I watched three films this weekend!!! It was too much, but I could refresh, so that's alright. How a nice chilling time for me this weekend was!!

Windsor castle

I went to Windsor castle with my friend and teacher yesterday. It was the second time to visit for me, but when I went there last time, I was young, so I just looked at and couldn't understand almost anything. However, in this time, I could I think. Then, we went to the church which is built next to the castle. It was amazing!! Next, we went inside of the apartment in Windsor castle. There are not only hundreds of guns and knives on the wall in several rooms but also precious and awesome chambers, and portraits of those who played an important role in the battle of Waterloo on the wall in each room. Everything looked massively expensive!!!!

Finally, we went to Queen Mary's dollhouse exhibition which displays the house where Queen lived, and many clothes. I have never lived like that house before, and I never attempt living, though, it's very valuable life...


Outside of the castle, there are a few guards standing properly, wearing a fluffy black hat and a typical red uniform, and having a gun with a knife on the top. I liked them because they were cool!! They never have a reaction even if I speak to him. I wondered if someone do funny thing, do they laugh? I don't know exactly, but it's interesting.

After that, we wandered the town, and dropped in to a shop, where bought two post cards.


I was excited to visit Windsor castle.^^

A small trip to Brighton

I went to Brighton with my friend yesterday. It took about 2 hours from Winchester station. It's looong journey, isn't it?hehe

Brighton was very pretty, and actually crowded!! At first, we went to Choccy Woccy Doodah which is famous for chocolate art. When I saw them, I doubted my eyes because it was brilliant indeed and like objects. I wondered how they make them. It was super amazing chocolate art ever!!! I absolutely recommend everyone who will go to Brighton. 

After that we went to the burger pub to have lunch, BUT suddenly the kitchen was on fire while we were waiting for our lunch. Then the staff in the restaurant said everyone who was in there, so we offered the staff to refund, and went out. It was really dangerous.

When we went around the town, we came across the super violinist who is on the tiny rope!!!! He is like in the air!! It is actually high quality and nobody can imitate it, I think. And at last we went to Royal Pavilion. I felt like that I was in the Disney land because it is like the model of Aladdin.hehe In there, time was very slow and it was comfortable to chill. I thought I wish I would have pack lunch...

 

On the way back to Winchester, the train suddenly was not in service. All passengers were confused. We changed trains four times after all!!!!! I can't believe!! It was the most fantastic trip ever...hehe I missed the name of Winchester. x( 

Two big things happened to us, but anyway Brighton was very enjoyable and brilliant!!! I was veeeery tired, but if I have chance to go, I'd like to go again.^^

Jane Austen's House

I went to Jane Austen's House Museum yesterday with my friend and teacher. We saw Alpacas on the way to there. It was the first time to see it. It was very pretty and friendly, but not good smell...hehe I couldn't touch them. I regretted that I should touch them...

Then, we arrived at her house after about 10 minutes walk from the bus stop. I tought as I saw the house that haw pretty garden it is!! The garden was surrounded by many kinds of flowers. We explored the house by ourselves. The most surprising thing inside that Jane Austen used the very tiny table to write her manuscripts. Incredible!! I thought before that normally a writer write on the large table because they have lots of drafts an
d pictures to built up their imagination. It was over my imagination. I wonder how she expanded her imagination with her tiny chair and table.

  

During my exploring inside, I talked to one elderly woman. She recommended reading "Pride and Prejudice", so I'll try in the near future. The original objects were very fascinating and like a miniature.

After that, we went to the cafe. I had English a fruit scone and a cup of espresso coffee. The scorn was great!! I liked it. I didn't know how strong espresso coffee is because the espresso in Japan is normally not so strong, so I'll try "Latte" next time.

Eating weekend (^O^)

On Saturday, I went for jog in the golf course in the morning. It was very nice to refresh!! Exercise specifically jogging and walking is actually good for health I think. Then People I met during my jogging said to me "Good morning". I was very happy. Very friendly!!!!

From afternoon, I went to Basingstoke with my host family. Then my father dropped me and my mom off in the large shopping centre. The shopping centre was very busy with many visitors. We browsed around there, and found the very pretty similar shops which I have seen, such as H&M, GAP, Super dry from Japan, and TOP SHOP. After that we went to my mom's sister's house to have supper. My mom's sister cooked us lots of amazing foods!! Moreover, she cooked me special Chinese food which similar to Japanese food. I enjoyed having it.

Awesome!!!!!!

 

On sunday, I went for walk as well because it was lovely day to take a walk. After 12 o'clock, My mom's old friend came to our house with her family. and we had Japanese food, Sushi and Teriyaki, and Indian food. It seemed international food party!!^^ I taught my mom how to cook Sushi a little, though I didn't cook...hehe All foods were great!! I liked it!! I chatted with them, and watched Happy Potter with children. Love Harry Potter...♡

It was very enjoyable weekend, but I had foods too much, so I need exercise a little more. hehe Time flied very quickly this weekend!!

The British Museum

I went to the British Museum with my friend and teacher yesterday. This was the second time to go there. When I stood in London, I thought London is very huge, and very crowded!! It is different from my town in Japan.




We took the local train and tube train to get to the King's Cross station from Winchester. In the King's Cross station, we saw the Platform 9 3/4 and took photos. Then we took funny pauses such as jumping with my foot together, and pushing the cart. I really like Happy Potter, so I was happy to see it. In there, people normally took a long queue to take a photo, but fortunately, it took just about 10 minutes to queue!! Awesome!!!

 

After that, we went to the British Museum on foot, and on the way to there, we walked around London - London college, TV tower of London. -

Finally, we got to the British Museum!! We had only about 2 hours, but I could see the beautiful things I wanted to see.

First, I saw this funny and amazing sculpture. This was used in the film; Night Museum. This funny face is my favorite.

Next, I saw the Lewis chessman. It was used the film; Happy Potter. This was getting bigger with CG, but this was modelling of Happy Potter. I popped out in my head, when I saw it.

I saw not only these two things but also the other things. The life in ancient was not very useful and enough to live, but their idea and the old things they used to have were very wonderful. I wondered who had used these things or how status they had gotten.

This is the plate for something to have... It measures 72 cm and weights 5.6 kg. Very huge and old!! I don't know why the ancient needed this huge plate... I was surprised!! How a huge!!hehe



After we went out of the British museum, we went toward St. Oxford and walked around as well. St. Oxford was very busy more crowd than King's Cross. Oxford is the place where became modelling of Shinjuku, Tokyo in Japan!! There were lots of shops including import shops from Japan. Then we went in about the largest toy shops; Hamleys!!!

This is all made from LEGO!!!! It's really awesome, isn't it ?

London was very nice place for all generation, but it's not good to crowd. I walked about 20000 steps a day!! Amazing!!! I need strong foot I thought...hehe I'd like to go to London again.