Six months have passed since that fantastic summer experience. The memories are still fresh that I can remember many interesting things there.It was the first time for me to see the world outside China. I just couldn’t wait to feel the atmosphere there. To save money for our group, we transferred in Dubai and finally arrived in London. Then we would take a bus to Cambridge. Now I’d like to divide my experiences into several parts to describe in details.
Long journey by air
The two flights were both around 6 hours which were quite long especially in consideration of time difference. But the desire to get to Cambridge and the convenience in the plane just covered up the tiredness during the trip. I had to admit that the plane was so great, not only for its soft light adjusting to local time, but also the device containing movies, games, music, phone, and … in front of us.
Flight camera
Watching movies, playing games, time went fast from Beijing to Dubai to London.
Beauty of Cambridge
I was drawn into the ancient buildings when I got there. In china, many old famous buildings were replaced by modern high buildings or destroyed. Just a few days ago, 2/3 ancient city area in Shangri-la were destroyed by fire, which caused a loss to over one hundred million RMB. How painful Ah. By contrast, Cambridge or other European cities did the preservation of cultural relics pretty well. In the World War II, people in Cambridge split the colorful glasses in the wall in small parts with unique numbers and transferred them from ground to basement. After war, people put them together according to the numbers. Owing to many great efforts like this, we can see the living history now.
Museum of Cambridge
The picture above showed a simple building in Cambridge, you could hardly see the building over six floors there. The road was narrow too, even one-way street somewhere. I couldn’t imagine these in Beijing.
Walking in the St. John’s College
One day we dropped into St. John’s College by the back door. There was a Shakespeare’s play in the garden. Although I was not able to understand what they were talking, I could feel the enthusiasm and concentration of actors. Plenty of trees, grass, old buildings, everything were great here.
Sitting on the grass
Sitting on the grass, enjoying the sunshine were both wonderful experiences in Cambridge.
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Busy cam river