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Before I came to Seattle, I read some information about it from the internet and
books. And according to my memory of the film “Sleepless in the Seattle”, I believed
that the weather in Seattle wouldn’t be very good. My thought came true on the first
day when we arrived Seattle. The weather, the sales taxes, those expensive goods and
the situation of not enough blankets, all made us very upset.
When the class began, everything seems changed! Almost everyday was a sunny
day; we needed to find every way to avoid the sunshine. We could use our Husky
Card to pay for our meal although it was very expensive. We met some new friends
even all of our classmates are Asian.
The life in the dormitory was quite different from the experience we have in CU.
Can you image that there only have a kitchenette each floor, not a fully equipped
kitchen? Can you image that boys
and girls are living in the same floor?
Actually I felt uncomfortable.
The classes were not like the
normal classes we had before. We
needed to do interview, and this
Mercer Hall
made me felt more comfortable to
speak English. The excursions were also wonderful. I still remembered that day when
we visited Mt. Rainier.
Seattle is a very beautiful city. It seems everywhere are lakes, including Lake
Union and Lake Washington. Usually we did our explorations during those free
afternoons. To the bus system, we became more and more familiar with it. Otherwise
the transfer would not help us to as much money as we can. We are not rich, right?
The experiences in Seattle included good things and bad things. Both made me
remembered UW and Seattle well.
Yin
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