Boat trip, boston life

Hi,everyone.

We all had this amazing experience aboard. I believe the memory would be deep inside everyone's mind, even after 5 years or more. It brought the whole view of Boston harbor to us. Unfortunately, it was too hard for me to hear Berman without a loudspeaker, and sometimes I just have to choose between standing among the crowed people and watching the marvelous city view, such a tough choice.

The whole trip took about 2 hours. We started our journey at Boston Long Wharf and our boat went across the Massachusetts Tumpike Bridge, toured near the Peddocks Island and Fort Independence, travelled over the Quincy Bay then we headed back. When I was at the edge of the boat and stared at the sea and the Boston City, especially the beach houses on the islands, I just assumed that there were a real toy kingdom. The houses were like Legos, while the sea was looked as a really huge green jello. This place is so different from China.

Since I paid my most concentration on the spectacle, I only caught a little information that Berman gave us. I knew that a lot of islands got their names based on their shapes, such like long island, nut island and ragged island. And Berman illustrated us that Harbor was not as clean as what we see nowadays, for sewage caused a lot of pollution and Boston government spent millions of dollars to fix it. And there were many traffic bridges and express ways over the field, hence the government put out the 'Big Dig Plan' to shape the entire view picture of Boston Harbor, and it cost a lot. I think Berman spent these three hours not only just want us to look at Boston from sea, but also to feel the environment and to figure out how this city became so beautiful. I was so impressive by the struggling the government have done.

Suddenly, a sentence rushed in my head, which Berman said many times in the class, and it is ' I love this country and it is the most beautiful country over the world'. If the government always forces on the issues that how to make every citizen more enjoyable lives on more clean fields instead of making the rich richer, the country should be the most beautiful country over the world, shouldn't it?

Above all, I want to share a picture I took. A seagull was standing on the column of t

he bridge and glowed with sunshine. I thought it felt happy, so do we.

Have fun!

Siqi Wang