Week 6 in London

Although LSE’s primary concern was providing world-class education for the summer school, it also offered a wide range of social activities solely for LSE students e.g. River Boat Disco, Lion King Theatre Evening, Phantom of the Opera Theatre Evening, and day trips to Cambridge and Oxford. Such activities provided us with an opportunity to experience something new in London, and a chance to meet other students.  Those activities helped a lot in our social networking.

After staying in London for six weeks, I truly experienced the lifestyle in such prestigious city.  London like most of the capitals offers a unique dynamic and multicultural lifestyle. As I always think, it is hard to taste the culture and lifestyle unless you really have a chance to live there.  It was a fruitful and enjoyable summer exchange trip for me. 

and byebye London :< (16/8/2013)

Week 5 in London

Week 5 (4/8/2013 – 10/8/2013)


Whoa! Finally came to this amazing weekend that ROMANTIC PARIS here I came.  Waking up at 5a.m. to catch the 7a.m. Eurostar to Paris was really tiring.  Yet, I still felt so excited to the trip when I arrived the King’s Cross Station.  After reaching Paris, we put down our hang carries in the hotel and started our trip.







 We went to Louvre Museum, Cathédrale Notre Dame de Paris, Eiffel Tower, La Seine, Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Arc de triomphe de l'Étoile and the Heart Lock Bridge.  To conclude this two-day trip, Paris is a romantic place only when it is at night time.

After the trip to France, the following week I spent most of the time in preparing and writing my midterm essay (2000 words) and doing a lot of readings for the tutorial class.  It was the most hectic week throughout the whole summer exchange.

Week 4 in London

Week 4 (28/7/2103 -3/8/2013)

It was really a hard time to say goodbye to my friends as most of them had to go back to their home university to study in August.  Before the hectic school life started again, those friends who stayed for session two and I went to do more sight-seeing on Sunday.

St. Paul’s Cathedral:


The cathedral is one of the most famous and most recognizable sights of London, with its dome, framed by the spires of Wren's City churches, dominating the skyline for 300 years. I have long been eager to go there for a long time.  As an architecture-lover, it was so amazed to see such fantastic architecture of the church.  It was really a pity that the gallery was not open due to a ceremony on that Sunday. Yet, we still had a good time there and felt the peacefulness inside the church.  After that, we had a nice and light lunch at a famous restaurant called Paul.  The sandwich, hot chocolate and the strawberry pie cake tasted excellent.

Green Park and St. James’s Park:

These two parks are near the Buckingham Palace.  There parks are ten times

 
larger than any park in Hong Kong. With the super nice sunlight and the gentle wind, we had a really great time walking here to feel the nature.  It was relaxing to walk in such a spacious park watching people having panic with their family and friends.  When I went back to Hong Kong and proposed to my friends to have a panic gathering, they all thought it was insane.  I guess this is a kind of culture difference of Asians and Europeans.  If I have a chance, I would do that in HKUST as well and hoping that nobody thinks I am a weirdo.

Having a relaxing Sunday, it was time to get start our study.  In session tow, I took the “E-business in Digital Age”.  To my surprise, there were only two Asians in the class and the majority of my classmates were all grown-ups.  With the term “Grown-up”, it means they all are having their own e-business or having their own career. This really surprised me a lot.  Luckily, they were all nice and willing to share their life and career experience to a little girl like me.  This is one of the amazing things to go oversea exchange in which it

definitely will broaden your horizon by talking to different people and you will realize you were living in such a little tiny world before. And I am glad that I made the right choice

Week 3 in London

Week 3 (21/7/2013 – 27/7/2013)

Here came the last week of session one, therefore my friends and I went to a day trip to Bath on Sunday.
 This routine of this trip included Winsor Castle, Bath and Stonehenge.  This was an excellent experience as this was the first time I went travelling with a group of new friends.   They trip was tiring yet very enjoyable. Funny but experienced tour guide introduced us different places and their stories to us.  Even till now, I still always miss those good old days.  It is always good to experience and look at the breathe-taking scene with your own eyes.  Such feeling is hard to express by words.

After this memorable trip, it was time for us to sit down and revise our final examination.   The exam took place on Friday and this was a happy Friday as well because we had an end of session party held by LSE Student Union at RISE at Leicester Square.  It was the last time that we could have party with our friends here especially for those who only stay for session one.  They would go back to their home countries and there might be the last chance for us to have fun together.  It sounded sad but we did make most of the night to enjoy being together. Though we only knew each other for three weeks, we had developed a strong bond.