华中科技大学

2019暑期美国哈佛大学生物医学研学夏令营日志

Day 2：欢迎来到纽约市

  摆脱了昨天一天的辛苦奔波后，今天我们首先来到了钢铁的森林--纽约市。作为美国经济文化的象征，研学旅行的第一站以纽约为开始真的是再合适不过了。

  在前往曼哈顿的大巴上，同学们精彩的自我介绍让整个车厢充满了欢乐，在这样欢乐的时光中我们感觉很快便到了曼哈顿。紧凑的高楼与奇异的大厦再加上些许涂鸦，这便是纽约的初印象。

  然而当渡轮顺着东河慢慢行驶，看着海港与林立的高楼两岸排开，自由女神映入眼帘的那一刻，我们才意识到——纽约，我们真的来了。

  走下渡轮，在蒸笼般的曼哈顿城穿梭，我们走上传说中的华尔街。走过川普大厦、走过联邦大厅、看到纽交所下的小女孩、最终来到“街角一隅”的铜牛像前。整个街道不过三分之一英里，宽仅有11米，却以“美国的金融中心”闻名于世。

  匆忙在subway吃完午餐后，同学们便启程前往今天在纽约的最后一站——世贸中心大厦。途中经过“9·11事件”遗址公园，看着曾经纽约最高的双子塔变成了如今的两个巨大的深坑，我们不得不思考，恐怖主义带给人类社会的灾难是何等巨大。进入世贸中心大厦之后，电梯仅用47秒即将我们送到了高达1776英尺的顶层，也是在这47秒的时间里，我们看到了纽约城市的变迁。在观景层，整个纽约尽收眼底，整个城市的建筑风格以及布局都体现了典型的美国风格。

  一天匆匆结束，晚上驱车百余公里跨三个州前往波士顿。因东北暴雨，堵车许久。晚餐在途中吃了自助餐。于深夜抵达波士顿的艾曼纽学院。幸运的是我们今年是这个项目第一年入住学生公寓，在顺利办理完入住后，在洁净舒适的环境中，我们终于进入了两日来最美的梦乡。

  Having gotten rid of the whole day’s rushing, we come to the forest of iron—New York City. As the symbol of American economic culture, it can’t be more suitable to begin with New York.

  On the coach to Manhattan, students’ fantastic self-introduction fill the whole bus with joy, because of which we feel it fast to get to Manhattan. The compact high buildings and strange mansion with some scrawl is the primary impression of New York.

  But when the ferry slowly put forward along East River and we saw the harbor and wood-like high buildings separate along the two sides and the Statue of Liberty is at the first sight, we realized that we have arrived New York truly.

Walking downside the ferry, we went across the Manhattan which is like a steamer and went to the legendary Wall Street, After that, we crossed the Trump Mansion, walked across the Federal Hall, saw the little girl below the NYSE and finally we come to the copper bull which is one corner of the street. Although the whole street is not more than one third kilometer, and only 11 meters wide, it’s known as the financial center of American.

  Having eaten lunch in a rush, we headed for our last stop of New York---World Trade Center Mansion. Passing the 9.11 Ruins Park, we have to think how huge disaster the terrorism bring to human society when watching two huge holes which are once the tallest twins towers of New York. Entering the World Trade Center Mansion, it takes elevator only 46 seconds to send us to the top level with an altitude of 1776 inch, which we spend watching the transformation of New York City. In the observatory, the whole New York City is all in sight whose architecture style and overall management reflects the typical American style.

  A rush day ending, we take the coach to Boston across three states. Due to the pouring rain in the North East, we are trapped in the way for a long time. We ate the buffet on the way. We arrived the Emanuel Collage in the deep night. Luckily, it’s the first year when we can settle into the student department. After managing to be taken in, in the clean and comfortable environment, we enter the most beautiful dream of these two days.