Describing a place

Observation From the Heaven

I have a special place in my heart for Sendai city. About two years ago, I lived there for one year because I was a cram school student. Sendai is the biggest city in the Tohoku district, so there are a lot of impressive high shiny buildings and a lot of people in the city. The weather was very calm and there weren’t many rainy days. It was sunny almost every day there. Actually, it was my first time to live far away from my family, so everything was new for me. I often had lots of problems during the year. For example, I always had to care about the result of my tests in cram school, and I had to keep to the strict rules of my dormitory such as these: “You have to come back to the dormitory by 8 o’clock.”, and “You must not enter anyone else’s room anytime.” I had a lot of stress very often.
Whenever I felt stressed, I went to the 29th floor of one of the big tall shiny buildings in front of the Sendai station. Its name was AER. Since the building was very tall, so I could see everything below me. The Sky’s color was cobalt blue and it had white clouds which seemed much closer. Birds looked like dots in the sky that were swimming in the blue air. In the distance, I could see the Pacific Ocean which was sparkling in the sun light and some white shiny ships on. Because there are wide windows on that floor, I could also see mountains to the right of me. The mountains were deep green and light green, and I could see a clear line of the edge of the mountains. Down at street level, I could see colorful cars such as green, black, red, blue, white and so forth. So many people were wandering on the roads. They were so small from there. They looked like ants. Inside the building was so quiet and cool. There was no wind or sound. However, I could easily imagine the heat of the sunlight, soft warm wind, and sounds such as people’s voices, music, and the noise of cars. I felt I was so small in the world whenever I went there, and I thought I should have a wider view. I could be positive even though I was really sad before I went there. The view from there encouraged me a lot. It was my treasured time to stay there and watch things around me. Because I had to care a lot about the small things in daily life, I was so lucky that I could find such a good place to think about the bigger things in the world. I got over many problems that year and I finally passed the entrance exam of AIU. Every time I go to Sendai, I always go there and remember that.