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Last week, we went to the forest which had a lot of mosquitoes ( I foget the name).  Before we went there, we researched about the history of the forest. According to the speeches of my classmates, there seemed to be some pictures of dogs, human, etc on rocks. However, because I have never been interested in history, I couldn't understand well why the ancient Hawaiian people drew such pictures. ...................... When I got to the forest, I could find less  mosquitoes than I thought. As you know, I had the speech about some habits of mosquitoes. Thanks to my good research, I didn't bitten by them at all. Actually, I expected that the trip became very  acrtive and dangerous because I am from Nagano which has a lot of beautiful nature and wild places. I had prepared for going to the heven before we went there. However all of us  are alive now. I am very relieveed  at the results. The only mistake that I made was that I wore sandals there.

     The field trip is an activity which broadens our horizons and it prevents us from knowing nothing of our world. Besides, the field trip is effective for us to refresh our mind. I think we will be able to study harder than before the time we departed. Having a field trip occasionally is a nice way to know the community that we belong to for us. It teaches what the textbook does not cover. Yet, I do not mean it is good for us to go on the field trips as many as we can. We must not neglect our studies. Also, we can be excited and delightful easier than the usual classes during the field trip. There is likelihood that we cause trouble to others. Therefore, we have to straighten ourselves up during the field trip. Anyway, we can have a great time at least if you follow the rules.     And then, I am going to write about actual field trip and what could we learn by taking part in the field trip.  The other day we visited a pizza restaurant to have a brunch.  The restaurant is located in Manoa, so for starters we could watch what kind of place there is from inside the car.  Then we get to the pizza restaurant.  Pizza is one of the most popular foods for American.  First of all, I was surprised by the size of the pizzas which are lined up in the cases.  There are not so many pizzerias in Japan, so I could enjoy the difference of culture between America and Japan.  And we could watch the process of making a pizza.  I was very impressed because it was the first time to watch it for me.  And, what I most surprised is almost all shoppers left the restaurant with holding one or more whole pizzas in their arms.  I know it would be eaten by entire family, but I can not believe about it because I never saw such a scene in Japan.  However, it was also enjoyable for me.  We appreciate Nick taking us there.

I went to on a Field Trip to eat lunch with Nick who is my world history teacher. In this paper, I am going to write about what is purpose of Field Trips. I think that a Field Trip is enjoying oneself with friends and teacher because we always study hard. Sometimes I was tired, and I could not eat enough food. Field Trips are very good exercise for a change which means good for us. Today before we rode the bus Nick said, “Everyone should speak English. It is good for you to study.” I agree with him. We learned new English words by talking with each other. It increased my knowledge of English. Therefore, Field Trips are very important.
Now, I will write about what we did on our Field Trip. We went to Boston Pizza to eat lunch. There were many kinds of huge pizzas. We ordered a Spinach and cheese pizza, a mushroom pizza, and a cheese pizza. Almost everyone ate two pieces of pizza. We enjoyed talking with each other in English. We had a good time there. If I have a chance, I would like to go there. Thank you Nick!

I went to bodies exhibition next to Ala moana shopping center. There were many cadavers. They were man, women, and children. I heard most of them were from Chinese prisons. Prisoners who accepted to exhibited were there. However I didn't know why children were there. Children have no words, so they can't understand language. I mean they should not be there. It is a big problem. Human is not thing. Because the exhibition was to grotesque for me, after I saw the exhibition, I got sick. I never want to go to such a grotesque exhibition. I want to go to another exhibition such as flower exhibition. I want to go to Honolulu zoo someday because we didn't go there because of the grotesque exhibition. I hope I will get over the sick.

               I went to Punahou School to language exchange in July 3 with core 3, 4, and 5 students. In the morning, we gathered in the first floor at 8:20 and we rode a school bus to go to there. I went to the first time to go there except carnival. It was the great building. After we arrived at Punahou, we entered a room. There were some students and we made some groups. First, we were talking to use Japanese and after that we were talking to use English. They are learning Japanese around five years but their speaking was good and I surprised. I think Japanese is more difficult than English. I exchanged the e-mail address and I made some friends. I want to contact with them to practice speaking English. They are going to go Japan about three weeks from 14^th. I want to go with them and if I have an opportunity, I wan to receive foreign people or friends to home stay. The purpose of system is exchange culture and language each other. Therefore, it is good way for us and also Punahou students. I want to find other opportunities from now on.

I went to Koko marina in field trip to eat a crepe. It is very good time. I ordered chocolate banana crepe. It is very good but it is diffrent forms frome Japan.  We went to Hawaii Kai.  It is very beautiful view. I want to go there with friend.

I try to eat new menue in Sub Way. It is cheese stake.

 

 

it was fun to spend time at Hawaii-kai. good weather, blue ocean, awesome foods at kokomarina. the crepe at the kokomarina was sooo good. The ocean view from the van was amazing also... we had good times at there!

We went field trip in May 15th.
we got Marasada at Leonard's
After marasada, suddenly, we would like to go to Dole plantation. We got maze and eat ice cream.
we ate shaved ice at Matsumoto's before Shrimp.
I did not try that because Matsumoto's is very famous. I know shaved ice that cheaper, more delicious, and more minor than Matsumoto's. lol
shrimp was so good. I choose Hot & spicy one. It was sooo hot. I will make it, if I can.
we ate many foods and spend a lot of money. I spend $30 XP
I have to save money to live... lol


Rose's husband took us picture


took a breakfast in the ban

this was last field trip

I went to Liliha Bakery to eat breakfast.
I ordered BLT sandwich.
however, it is not enough.
i d like to go there one more time, if i can. and i am going to buy choke coco puffs.
the man who came with us -i forgot his name- told us "choke" mean many in Hawaiian slung.
these were good experience for me. I have good time.

WHAT A DAY!
The day started with a visit to Leonard's Bakery for a few malasadas for breakfast. Yummy! The flavor of the month is mango. We then began the long journey to the North Shore. Our next stop was Dole Pineapple Plantation. We needed to work off the malasadas and work up an appetite for some pineapple ice cream so we ran around one of the largest mazes in the world for a while. The maze made it into the Guiness Book of Records in 2001. We continued our adventure on to Matsumoto's Shave Ice for yet another sweet delight. The next stop was Laniakea Beach where the Honu (turtles) like to come up and relax on the sand. We saw a big turtle and the ranger told us that he was about 55 years old. The interesting thing was that he had a really long tail. Believe it or not, the students were hungry again, so we headed to Giovanni's Shrimp Truck for some shrimp scampi. Reeking of garlic, we loaded back into the van and headed for Waimea Bay for a swim and some fun in the sand. Finally, we returned to HTIC thoroughly tuckered out. All in all it was a great cultural experience and the students had the opportunity to speak, hear and read lots of English and also write about their experience. You can't teach that in a classroom!