Travel broadens the mind
6/12/2002
I guess everybody will agree that travel broadens the mind. That's true. Getting out of the place where you always live, then going to an unfamiliar place will be a kind of unforgettable experience in your life.
In my memory, I still remember the experience I went to travel the different places. When I was in my primary school. I traveled to Beijing , Shanghai , Shenzhen, which are all big city in china. Then when I was in high school. I traveled Japan with a high school students group which was organized by our government. So many experiences gave me a lot of chance to touch the world outside. Let me accept different style of life, let me take in different view point of the world, let me broaden my mind.
My mom brought me to visit Shengzhen which is a new developed city in the south part of China . This is my first experience of taking a airplane to travel and as I was still a little boy, I was so excited to getting on a plane. On the plane I stared the cloud outside the window and saw them fly by the wing of the plane. When the plane landed, I even cannot believe that I had arrived that city 2000 km away from my home. Well, there were always many strange and funny feelings when I was a little boy, especially when I was traveling outside.
In Shenzhen, I had gone to a lot of restaurants. Well, the cooking there was quite different from which in Hangzhou . They always served us a cup of nice soup before you start your meal. And they always like to mix a lot of materials into one dish. Even more, they eat something that we don't eat often, like snake and cats.
My mom brought me to a new theme park in Shenzhen which was named ethe park of world'. In this park, they imitated to build almost all of the famous place in the world just like Eiffel Tower and Triumphal arch in Paris , the president hill in US, and the big waterfall between Canada and America . I seemed entered a mini world. When I was walking among these places of interests, I seemed travel the world. Different styles in different parts of the park. It was really like a exotic traveling and let me taste the exotic style of the world.
There is an old saying in china: it is better to see for oneself rather than to hear for many times. After I visited Japan , I do understand what it means. Before that I get all the information of Japan from TV, Internet or what people say. But I do suggest that you visit a place rather than read a lot about it on the newspaper because the atmosphere will make you feel deeply of the place.
I traveled Tokyo , Yokohama , Kyoto , Okayama . I went to see the school in Okayama , I looked around the factory of Nissan in Yokohama , then I visited the old temples in Kyoto c I feel that Japan has so many places that worth visiting and the travel gave me a good image of it.
Well, travel is just one side of touching a new country or a place. But, it is the best way to broaden your mind and enlarge your eye. If you have free time, go to travel!!!
Thank you very much.
Last update: 01/18/2004 23:09