How I Spent My Inheritance

How I Spent My Inheritance

Do you want to know how I became wealthy? Well one early Sunday morning my parents told me: "one of your uncles died a month ago and his lawyer left a note yesterday." They also said: "the note was actually his will and you would be the one who was going to inherit his fortune". I was speechless to hear that. The first thing I did with my fortune was give half of it to my parents, and the other half I used it to go somewhere foreign since I was still in summer vacation.

Three days later, I bought a private jet to go to Tokyo, Japan. The first thing that came to my mind was to make a reservation for "The Peninsula Tokyo Hotel". When I arrived, I thought it was great, but it was crowded. It was already nightfall and I was tired of carrying my baggage. I didn't know how to communicate with people in Tokyo because most of them spoke Japanese.

Luckily I bumped into a person who spoke English and Japanese. I asked him if he knew where "The Peninsula Tokyo Hotel" was located. Thank God he did, he wrote me the directions on a piece of paper. It was 5 blocks away so I took a taxicab. When I got there it started to rain, I read the name of the hotel and it said "The Peninsula Tokyo Hotel". I was in the right place I went in, the clerk gave me my assigned room, and he left my baggage in my room. Next, I went outside and bought a dictionary that translated Japanese to English. Then I went back to the hotel and slept.

The next day I woke up very tired and changed into my street clothes. I also took my translator in order to communicate with people. Then, I noticed that I was hungry so I ate breakfast in Mc Donald's. The Mc Donald's restaurant was filled with a lot of people; it took me 30 minutes to actually get my food and 15 minutes to eat it and to give the waiter the money. After that I went to the "National Art Museum". It was beautiful because I saw a lot of artifacts that I was really interested in, like swords and armors that warriors used to fight with. The museum was really big and you could find fancy restaurants and cafes.

Later that day, I went to a hot spring which was kind of like a theme park, but the quality of the facility was very serious and nice. I took a feet bath called "ashi-yu". Besides taking a bath, I enjoyed shopping even playing a Japanese-style shooting game in a "yukata" which was a traditional bath gown. Later that day I was getting hungry again, so I went to a restaurant named "Alice in Wonderland". It was really bizarre because there were polka dots in the ceiling, and there were also drawings of big books on the walls. I felt like I was Alice. I ate sushi, noodles and some apples. I realized that the sun was coming down, so I bought a souvenir from a store nearby to remember that special day.

I stayed two more days in Japan, bought an airplane ticket, and by Friday I went back home to my parents. They were glad to see me. I gave them the souvenirs that I bought from Japan and told them about the three days I had staying in Japan. They were glad to hear that I had a good time. I asked them if they spent any money while I was gone, the said: "nope, nothing". I told them: "Well then maybe we could all go to Japan next month."

Finally thanks to one of my uncles I was able to have this wonderful experience. Even though I was still sad about the situation as they say one's misfortune is another's gratitude. And in this case the saying totally fits.

It's an alright essay but nothing great. Maybe writing about a life changing experience would be better or expand upon how this experience affected you in a negative/positive way and how you changed from this experience, etc.

Also, the part where you explain that you just randomly decided to go to Japan, the transition, doesn't seem right. It's kind of awkward. there seems to be a lot of unnecessary details. Maybe you could focus on one thing that happened while you were in Japan.

I think you can express this information in 50% of the words.

You don't need to give all the details.


You should probably omit this boring part.

:-) Interesting stuff, here!!