Just practice my basic grammartical skills and try to express myself in wirting. Construstive suggestions are welcome! ^_^
That summer when I first came to this city for my education, in a building located in the downtown area, I shared an apartment with two girls who were also my classmates. The building that we lived in was with high ceilings and the transportation was convenient. None of us had a car. As the oldest city in Canada, Scottish style historical buildings like the one we lived in can be found almost everywhere in that peninsula--the downtown area.
With the historical and cultural manifestations and the pleasantness it offers, this city has been a resort for tourists from Boston, New York, Quebec, and Toronto and some other places mostly in North America. With only twenty thousand residents living in the small uptown neighborhood, you can find attractiveness and tourism shops and restaurants sprinkling here and there, and when cruise ships visit, you can find streets packed with curious tourists wandering around with cameras in hands in view spots. Then they disappeared and reappeared. If weather permitting, with no storms, cruise ships usually just stayed for one night and then left. the harbour. When there were no cruise ships visiting, streets would become quiet and peaceful again.
From where I lived, looking out of my apartment window I could not see any beautiful scenes of the city because a building next to ours blocked our view, so every time when the cruise ships visited the town, my roommates and I would like to poke around in the harbour front area, observing tourists, taking a guess on what city they had come from based on their gestures and expressions. Facing the soft sea breezes we usually leaned against the balusters of the harborfront building and enjoyed the civilization visitors brought to us--- looking at the humongous and luxuriant cruise ship that we had been dreaming to enjoy our holiday vacations on.
Years have gone by. Today I no longer live in uptown and I still haven't gotten enough money to offer a vacation on a cruise ship. Maybe it is the sign that I am getting old, I have been feeling nostalgic lately, and these days almost every time when driving by the harborfront, I would unconsciously make a glance at that spot where my friends and I once stood on for many times and looked around, enjoying sea breezs while shooting them. I have lost contact with my two roommates, maybe we should search for each other, maybe in facebook, or in a forum somewhere like MYSJ, or maybe someday we will find each other a few feet away.
