My First Sights in Japan

Posting by Ruby Goldbaum:

Here in Japan there are so many different and interesting farmlands. Some grow many different vegetables, and grains like turnips, beans, cabbage, leeks, and rice. As we drove to the hotel we saw many different bushes and trees of unusual shapes and sizes in people's gardens. My mom told me they are sculpted and groomed that way because they don't have a lot of room for the bigger trees like the kinds we have in our gardens in America. We also saw lots and lots of bamboo trees along the road. Some of the bamboo shoots were really dark green and some of them were brown or light green. One quick fact about bamboo is that it can live up to 100 or more years (Noah told us that!)

The hotel includes sports that you can play. There is a swimming pool, a tennis court and a golf course. There is also a playground. We are going to go swimming and play tennis today! If we have time we'll check out the playground!