Today I will talk about my most impressive trip. Now we are hard to go trip because of COVID-19, but I want you to use as a reference when this situation get better.
I went to Singapore with my family when I was 11 years old, when I first landed there, after an eight-hour flight, my first thought was what a hot place it was!!
It was unbelievable hotness for me, had never been to tropical area, and it really made me feel that I came to a different place from Japan. It was midnight when we got there, so only went to bed that day.
Next day, we went around in Singapore with Japanese tourists and guides.
We visited the famous Merlion and attractions. I remember thinking at the time that Singapore was a very prosperous country. That night, we stayed at the famous Marina Bay Sands Hotel. The view of the Singapore cityscape while swimming in the huge ship-shaped pool above the hotel made me very excited, like swimming gracefully in the sky!
The next day we swam in that pool until we were exhausted and went to the zoo at night. Nowadays, Singapore is more developed than at that time, so I'm sure everyone will enjoy going sightseeing.
Thoughts on reading Pandemic written by Yuval Noah Harari
Today I will talk about ''PANDEMIC'' written by Yuval Noah Harari, who is a historian and author of such famous book as ''Homodeus'' and ''Sapiens: A brief History of Humankind''. This book describes his views on how humanity should confront the coronavirus crisis and what changes will emerge in the world afterward. There are two things in this book that particularly impressed me . First, he strongly said that globalization is key to solve this Problem. Globalization has been seen as a part of the cause of Coronavirus pandemic, and people often claim that de-globalization is only right plan to make this situation better. However, he said that such pandemics has occurred since long before globalization, and if anything, global cooperation has minimized the damage of epidemics like AIDS and Ebola in recent years. He has been certain that if we can cooperate with all other countries properly, we can get through this crisis. At the s...
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