"On 25th September, we went on a trip to London - The capital of England! We met each other at the Swan building, which is where the Sixth Form usually study. We saw everyone was really excited: people in colourful clothes, carrying big bags...
We spent almost two hours to get to London on the coach, so the traffic was quite bad. The first thing we saw was the well-known river: the Thames! It is a long, wide river and there were many boats floating on it. Then we got out of the coach and began walking. We passed the Big Ben which was huge and spectacular. After that, on our way to the Buckingham Palace, there was a soldier sitting on a horse, this was the first time for many of us to see a real soldier, so we all took some photos of it.
Finally, we were standing in front of the Buckingham Palace where the Queen lives. Also, the landscape in it was great as there were grass and trees and different kinds of animals everywhere! One of our teachers, David, took a school photo of us there.
After a long time of walking, we felt tired and hungry. Our teachers led us to the Chinatown which had many Chinese restaurants and shops. Some of us were so excited, because we miss Chinese food a lot. We went to one of the restaurants and had some noodles, rice and chasubao. Haha, the Chinese students feel like they are the guides to help their new international friends to choose which dishes are tastiest. David also showed us some fruit from Thailand which is very smelly!
In the afternoon, students got really excited because we had free time for shopping! Some of us went to a big market in Covent Garden which sold different kinds of lovely things. We bought some souvenirs in there as presents for our friends back home. We had a really good time!
By the way, there were some people who pretended to be statues were in some silver and gold clothes, they worked really hard and we took pictures of them, too.
We had fun in London and liked it very much!"
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"Some of us went to a big market in Covent Garden which sold different kinds of lovely things."
ReplyDeleteCovent Garden is lovely, isn't it? It's my favourite place in London. You couldn't ask for a better atmosphere, it's always busy and bustling and friendly. Although it's that much better at Christmas. Last December, my mum and I booked serviced apartments in Covent Garden and we had a weekend there. And we came home feeling like we'd had a week's holiday.
On one of the days we were there, someone started singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" at the top of his lungs. Not one of the street performers, just someone and little by little, people started joining in. I'm not sure that would have worked anywhere else but Covent Garden.