I had lot of fun in this trip because I could learn many things about American culture. The most impressive memory for me was to be able to see the library at Reed College which has the British style, and it looked like the library in Harry Potter:) I really long for the students who can go to this college. In the library, the students can't speak at all, but they can talk and eat if they are in the lobby of the library. I was astonished at the time that the library opens. It opens by 2:00am at the earliest, and it opens even on Sunday, so according to our guide, most students tend to spend a lot of their time in the library at evening.
I thought they seemed to be genuine students, because I felt as if they already knew true students should be. I really admired "Honor Principle" that this school has as a system instead of rules. I think almost all of the students live their lives being bound with many rules. It is just passive for them, so it's good system for them to improve themselves and their independent personalities by themselves.
It is said that teaching everything to students is not only education, so this is one of the good points in Reed to replace this idea with its rules.
I was also attracted by the Japanese American memorial in this trip. I could not believe that Jill hadn't studied about it in her school days. It might be natural, because it will be disadvantage for American government to make students learn about it, but it apologized to the people all over the world, especially Japanese Americans, for what the government did.
Jill also said this incident was rare, because it is generally believed that governments seldom apologize what they did in the history, so it's sorrowful story, but I felt relieved a little bit.
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