八月
Rita Tan
The hot summer August flew so quick away from me, that I barely felt a taste of it.
I took off from UCLA summer session to the Metropolis, New York City. Though shocked by the unusually busy air on the 5th Avenue and the unusual orderliness in the entropy pot, I enjoyed my time wandering from the Empire and Rockefeller rooftops to the dizzying LED screens in Times Square, from the awesome darkness of the Chicago Broadway Show to the nice daylight on the grassland of the Park. It is a charming city, holds your soul once you were there.
Then, I go around for some college visits with my parents and Celeste.
We stayed in Philadelphia for a good Fish house food and went for the Bell. It’s nice, the city seem to be a well-educated cheerful little lady with proud family history. And there were millions of church there!
In Baltimore, I met Johns Hopkins Univ.. She is very beautiful. surrounded by a layer of thick canopy, the campus seemed to be Noah boat among its lower income city neighbours. The delicate machines, elegant and modernised buildings, and the nice students with a little humour were hard to critic to. I like that place, though the Eastern coastline just still seems a little formal.
Then we went to Pittsburgh. It seems so familiar, so industrial, and messy, just like Guangzhou. In Pitts you can feel that it is reviving, born from the ash of steel factories and went into a more humane and innovative city with strong engineering, digital, and health fields. I really like the sculpture on one of the medical building. The high land was a mystery but it’s fun to cross so many bridges, kinda inspiring.
Later we returned to a very little town just North to New York City, Irvington. It was quiet, beautiful, and historical. People seemed to live a good upper middle class life and lifestyle of the last generation. Kind and generous. But for a city born like me, it would be more likely to say boring except organic food. We first lived in a old aristocrat house and then the Hampton. And I found myself prefer both. Hard to say.
Then I studied for SAT, not really hard actually. So now I pray for a higher score, at least 1500 please!!!
Then I am back, in Guangzhou, my hometown. I love her.
And I started to meet new sophomores and new graduates, glad to share my experience and help them some way. And that’s what I want from my official account.
So far. I am super tired.
