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6月16日 maine, new hampshire, boston, white water rafting AND graduation ceremonyBasically, many things happened the past few weeks...
1. Went on a road trip to Maine (Acadia national park), New Hampshire (Mt. Washington), Boston
2. Went white water rafting in Pocono and strawberry-picking nearby
3. NOC graduation ceremony...
Maine是美国最东北部的州，我们开了12个小时的车才到达。那里最出名的是龙虾。那里到处都有lobster farm。我们每个人直接从笼子里挑了一只活蹦乱跳的龙虾，令餐厅当场水煮了让后就大快朵颐，痛快之极。
Mt. Washington was astounding! 高达1917米的mt. washington是美国东北部最高峰，以峰顶变化多端的天气而著称，山脚下是夏日炎炎，山顶上却是白雪皑皑。峰顶记载中的最高风速是372公里/小时，当时我们去的时候大约也有64公里/小时，感觉比飓风还把我们吹得无处可逃，东躲西藏。一路开车去山顶，路边的风景从热带变亚热带再到温带最后是寒带，到了山顶就是零下了。
真的很喜欢boston，有历史有文化有学术有美景。即便她天气不如San Francisco来的温和，我还是决定vote Boston as my favorite city in US. Thanks Khang and Yang Ming for showing us around Harvard and MIT respectively. Harvard Business School is so much more scenic than Wharton, which looks much more commercial. 哈佛商学院看上去就像个公园，小巧精美玲珑别致。下定决心了，以后MBA一定来Harvard。
上个周末去了白水漂流，或者说皮筏漂流。
White water rafting is awesome, second only to skydiving in terms of adrenalin rush~~ but, i got such a BAD sun burn after 5 hours of consecutive white water rafting!
I barely knew how to swim, so at first I was really scared that I would end up falling into the water and get a bad scare in the best or get drowned in the worst! But then it turned out that the river was kinda shallow, though the rapid was really swift. So if you ever fell into the river, the problem wouldn't be drowning, but would be fighting to stand up in the rapid water!
This is a class III white water rafting area so there are plenty rocks in the middle of the river, some showing themselves while some lurking treacherously just beneath the surface. Many rafts, as did ours, ran onto them and got stuck there. Then we had to bounce around the raft to get it unhooked.
周一， 是NOC的毕业典礼。一年了，突然很感伤。大家一提到要道别了都感慨万千，甚至唏嘘不已。由于费城比San Francisco 小很多，所以我们18个人都住的很近，之间走路不超过10分钟，所以基本上可以说是生活在一起的。尤其是和自己的housemates, 更是朝夕相处，已经大有一家人之势，但现在却别离在即。以后，应该会在某个时刻，突然很思念和neisha躺在各自床上仰望窗外星空谈着心事的日子; 应该会想念那个很疼人，心胸宽阔却略微腼腆的Elvin, 应该会怀念楼上的Xian Kan温和的笑容, Ka Mung的冷笑话, Jessie的热情 和 Gim Huat的listening ears and understanding nature. 会想念所有的人，包括下一界的9个人，大家一起煮饭一起谈笑一起旅游一起做傻事。要走了，却突然发现自己根本没有准备好，于是变做一只鸵鸟，一头扎进TV series和小说的世界里，pretending that by doing so i can put off the moment that I start preparing for departure. Anyway, my emotions are beyond words now, so let me just quote a girl friend of mine:
"And all the enthusiasm had fade away. I had too many loose ends to tie, too many pimples to cure, too many pounds too lose, too much emotion to settle, too much due work to wrap up. Unreadiness was what struck me the most."
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