After a long application, in July of this year，our plane took off. In the next three months, I was impressed by living on the West Coast.

I attended the Summer School set by the university of California, Berkeley. In Berkeley, people’s lifestyle, culture custom and learning environment gave me a different experience. It was an amazing, surprising and exhilarating journey.

After a busy and fulfilling semester, I was ready to fly to another country. 12hours air travel, across the Pacific Ocean, we arrived at San Francisco International Airport. After making a pit-stop, we were heading to Berkeley.

Berkeley campus encompasses approximately 1,232 acres, though the "central campus" occupies only the low-lying western 178 acres of this area.

To the west of the central campus is the downtown business district of Berkeley; to the northwest is the neighborhood of North Berkeley, including the so-called Gourmet Ghetto, a commercial district known for high quality dining due to the presence of such world-renowned restaurants as Chez Panisse. Immediately to the north is a quiet residential neighborhood known as Northside with a large graduate student population; situated north of that are the upscale residential neighborhoods of the Berkeley Hills. Immediately southeast of campus lies fraternity row, and beyond that the Clark Kerr Campus and an upscale residential area named Claremont. The area south of the university includes student housing and Telegraph Avenue, one of Berkeley's main shopping districts with stores, street vendors and restaurants catering to college students and tourists.

Architectures are very beautiful there. The structures forming the "classical core" of the campus were built in the Beaux-Arts Classical style. Buildings regarded as temporary, nonacademic, or not particularly "serious" were designed in shingle or Collegiate Gothic styles. Built in 1873 in a Victorian Second-Empire-style, South Hall is the oldest university building in California.

Unlike the universities in China, UC Berkeley distributed in the town. You will find that it’s different to separate the university from the town.

What impressed me most is people’s attitudes to life and knowledge. People are pursuing on more effective there. Everyone get on their own job and are ready to help others. Students are Full of enthusiasm for learning. You can feel that people are trying their best to improve themselves.

This experience will never be forgotten in my life.