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关闭窗口 This summer I have been to the UK. As a matter of fact, it is not my first time to step on the earth of the UK. I have been to some European countries including British when I was in junior high. You may regard this travel as one replication of my first experience to British and think it’s a waste of time to travel to the same country for the second time. However, I bet that you will definitely have a different feeling each time you travel, even to the place you have been to, since some variations such as ageing or partner.
This time I went there with my schoolmates. It was really a long journey to reach the UK. I was suffering from the coach and the flight. It is really shame to say that I have thrown up twice, to and fro. Even though it was a trial to go there and got me sick, we really had several wonderful memories that we won’t forget there. We went to the school called Felsted in a town called Felsted near London and started our 15-day experience there. There are a lot to talk about; I want to describe it in several aspects following.
Environment
When we arrived at the school, it was 12 o’clock in the evening. What’s more, all of us were really tired and exhausted after a long time flight. Everyone has already been sleepy and most of us have slept on the coach. None of us had the chance to visit around the school. We were just allocated to our own room in the dorm. I was surprised that the decoration of the dorm was warm and sweet which will makes you feel like at home. Next day, Daniel, who is in charge of the summer school showed us around the school since we arrived here a little bit earlier. I was surprised by the scale of the school. It isn’t exaggerated to say that the school almost takes a large amount of space of the town. The environment of the school is natural and beautiful. The buildings there were just like the castle we saw on the Internet. Most space of the school is filled with grass and plants. The most fascinating thing for me is their art classroom. It’s just the same as the studio of every artist. It contains all the material, paint, tools for the making of the picture. All in all, it’s just the same as what we thought an artist finish their works. However, it’s really a pity that I had no chance to have a class there since we stayed there for only two weeks and I only had the chance to study my first choice---Maths.Attitude
Actually, we have already known that people in the west prefer to develop children’s ability and their health while people in the east prefer to develop children’s learning skills such as calculating. I have said that I chose the Maths class. In fact, most people are Chinese. What’s more, Igradually knew the truth that we are better at Maths than those foreigners. We always got higher scores than them. However, whenever we students have activities about sports, most of them will performance better than our east people. Moreover, many of them really love sports and are crazy about sports. Considering us, a lot of our classmates always prefer to solve questions or do homework rather than do exercise. Doing sports for us is more likely to be a task than interest. I would like to encourage people have some time for sports but not homework, internet or social network. Therefore, we can get close to foreigners quickly and make friends with them. To continue with, the teaching style there is quite different from the way our teachers teach us. I can’t know exactly what they will teach their children every day, but I can guess they probably teach in a different way which is more interesting. To tell you the truth, when we have classes, the time for the teacher to teach us is limited. Most time in class we will finish all kinds of task with our partner. For instance, one time our teacher told us to design your own products and next day give a presentation in front of the class. I prepared it really carefully and finally I succeeded. I think such kind of learning will let students learn more since students should do a lot of research and then spend a lot of time thinking. Furthermore, for the writing, the teacher almost told us nothing about how to get a good composition. She just gave us some material to read and then give us chance to research anything we want on the internet for the rest of the class. It was totally different from how we learn knowledge in China.Curriculum &Activities
For this part, I have a lot to say since there are a lot of activities in Felsted. At first, I thought that we will have some private time to do what we want to do such as doing homework, reading books, surfing the Internet or chatting with our friend on the social network. However, we didn’t have enough time for these activities since we were really busy every day. From 7a.m. to 9p.m., we had no time to do our own things. What’s more, there’s no nap for us at noon. We will become super tired after a long day work. Every day’s schedule is similar. The first two classes in the morning are English classes. And the third one is just for all kinds of English activities. Then we will go to have lunch. For the first class in the afternoon, we will go to our first choice class, for me, it’s Maths. Then we will have the PE class. All the students were divided into three different groups and do different sports such as yoga, football or volleyball. After that, we will go to different clubs. Many people chose the cooking class. However, only part of them could have the cooking class. Unfortunately, I’m not among them. Thus,I went to the rumbling class. It’s a class similar to climbing or walking. Every time, we will walk a long distance around the school or go over a hill near the school. We really felt exhausted after the club. After dinner, we will go to the particular dorm to do our homework for about one hour. Then we will have the time go back to our own dorm to get dressed for the evening activities. Sometimes we will watch the movie, sometimes we will have the disco, or sometimes we will do some games or sports. This activity will lasts for about two hours. When we get to dorm, it was usually ten o’clock. And this is the time we should turn off our lights. As you can see, we don’t have time for private activities. Sometimes we will have the chance to have some special activities such as protecting the egg, save the balloon or build the castle. Every activity is so fascinating and we really enjoyed a lot. We also had some chances to go shopping in London. We went to the regent street, British Museumand so on. The works of art in the British Museum were super beautiful and every work was delicate. The chinaware showed in Chinese venue looked much better than those in other country’s venue. For the shopping part, I was surprised by our shopping ability. Many people could buy more than 2 products in about one hour.One the first Thursday, we went to the Thorpe Park which is an amusement park. My friends and I tried 2 projects there. Each of them contains water. I still could not be brave enough to go on the roller coaster. It’s really a pity because this amusement park is famous for the roller coaster. It has almost all kinds of the roller coaster there. We didn’t have a lot of time to stay in that park, so all of us just tried a part of the projects. For the rest ones, we didn’t get the chance to have a try. During this journey, we played paintballing. It’s the same game as the CF. We really had a good time even though the helmet was heavy and the clothes didn’t feel good. I was so lucky that I wasn’t being shot for one time. But the balls in the gun were really hurting. Once my hand was shot by one of the enemy’s ball, my hand quickly turned red. All in all, though every day there is busy, it’s really wonderful to own such kind of experience.Specialism &Sentiment
As a matter of fact, there are a lot of differences between China and the UK. I’m not going to list all of them. I just want to share my discoveries of some things. First of all, when we mention the UK, all the people will think of one word---gentleman. We all know that British people are polite and helpful. What’s more, I have found one thing special about them. They will do their work really carefully, in other words, they will do their work very slowly. From customs to the cashier, all of them will do things leisurely. Even their customers are in a hurry, they will do things in order but not in a hurry. When there are people waiting on the side of the road, the driver will always stop and give a sign to show the pedestrians to walk across the road. Reflecting our Chinese, we usually seem in a hurry every time and can’t bear to wait for any time. This kind of phenomenon was not only shown in the traffic, but every aspect of our life. British cashier will treat every product carefully while Chinese cashier will treat it at liberty. Such kinds of phenomenon are endless. I hope that everyone can be gentle and kind to other people and things around us. To continue with, the weather and the scenes in British were really interesting. Britain will always be rainy. You will never know when the rain will come or stop. If you travel to UK, and it is sunny for the whole day, it’s a very lucky day. Because of the rain, the temperature there is always around tens to twenties degree. Thus, there’s no need to own an air condition. You can hardly see the air condition in the UK. However, we have met the ‘miracle’ there, its 34 degree that day and it’s sunny the whole day. When you come to this country, you may forget the time. It’s not because of their beautiful scenes, but the day in the UK is longer than the night there. Even though 9 o’clock in the evening, it just seems like 7p.m. in Yangzhou.After the journey to the UK, I have known British culture better than before. Furthermore, I experienced what school life was like in Britain. I have made a lot of friends there. Moreover, I almost know things about how to make friends with foreigners, how to chat with them. The only pity is that I was too shy to express my own opinion. I wish that I can be better in the future.
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