Blog #4; London

Hello, this is Koichi. In this summer vacation, I went to London. This was my first experience to visit foreign country. Moreover, I went there alone. Because of these factors, I was really nervous before I arrived at London.

The reason why I decided to go to London alone is that I wanted to know my English skills is good enough to live in foreign countries. Through this trip, I can find an interesting thing. I'm going to talk about it at the very end of this blog.

Now, I'd like to show you some pictures which I took in London. The first picture is this.

What I wanted to visit the most in London is this, Big Ben. It is one of the most famous architectures in the world. WhenI arrived at this place, I was really impressed. There were many people on the street; however, I felt like staying there long time.

The second picture is the one which shows changing the guard. To see this scene, I waited for moe than two hours. When we hear the word "British guards", many of us probably imagine the ones in red clothes; however, there are two kinds if soldiers- the red ones and navy ones. It deserves to wait for several hours to watch it.

Before I left Japan, I decided to watch musical in London. Fortunatelly, I could watch a popular musical, the Lion King. As I know this story, I was able to understand it easily. This musical was wonderful because every animal was played by people. Their performance was great. I heard that they study how animals move in zoos.

Before I visited London, I was confident in my listening skill rather than speaking skill; however, it wasn't true. My listening skill is not good enough. As English I often hear is the one for student; in other words, theachers speak English slowly or clearly for their students. But native speakers in London don't care their students of course, because they are not teachers. Through this trip, i can find my English skill is poor to stay in foreign countries. I think this experience gave me an imortant lesson which I can't learn in Japan.