哈囉大家～ 今天天氣一如往常陰陰的（昨天明明大太陽），但是小編的心情很好因為我明天要去巴黎啦～所以下個禮拜的主題就會很跳tone的變成巴黎三日遊了（希望天氣會很好所以可以拍好看的照片給你們看 🙂 ）。 OK，所以今天想要跟大家聊的就是為什麼我會選擇來英國念書、為什麼想念旅館管理的研究所以及從眾多的學校中為什麼最後選擇了薩里大學呢？一切都要從大學第三年的交換學生計畫及大學四年級的一堂旅遊管理課說起。
我大學念的是淡江大學國際企業學系英語專班，所以在經過大學四年的薰陶後，已經很習慣用英文上課做報告和寫功課了。在大學第三年的時候，很幸運的申請上交換學生的計畫所以到瑞典的斯德哥爾摩大學學習了一年，在瑞典的那一年因為課不多所以有很多機會到歐洲其他的國家旅行當背包客，到處走一走，有一天就跟朋友一起走到了倫敦。那是我第一次到英國旅行，非常興奮地到處走看逛了很多以前在地理課本上才看到的照片：大笨鐘、倫敦塔橋、泰唔士河、大英博物館、西敏寺跟白金漢宮等等，對從小就很愛歷史的我，沿著泰唔士河走到倫敦塔橋的時候，看這河岸對面的倫敦塔，亨利八世和命喪於此的安博琳以及背後一切的故事，那種感覺真的是無法形容。
晚上的泰唔士河和閃亮的大笨鐘 (River Thames and Big Ben at night)
早上的泰唔士河跟倫敦塔橋 (River Thames and London tower bridge in the morning)
傍晚的海德公園跟成群的天鵝和水鴨 (Hyde park in London at dusk)
當下11月一個人走在倫敦的街頭，看著西裝筆挺的上班族快速但又自信地從身旁走過、看著倫敦的吉祥物紅色雙層巴士點綴著這個還沒有下雪的城市、看著路上的觀光客很興奮地四處拍照買東西，不知道為什麼莫名的覺得感動，覺得想要再多待久一點，想要再多了解英國。第二次到英國是跟朋友去了劍橋，那是一個更能深深感受英國文化氛圍的城市，紅磚房、石板路以及從倫敦沿展到這裡的泰唔士河、富有讀書氣息的國王學院等等，讓我更加確定了之後一定要回來進修讀書。
劍橋一角 (Cambridge)
劍橋與我 (Cambridge and me)
所以後來來到Guildford後，很開心地發現這個小鎮根本就是迷你版的倫敦加劍橋！鎮上的High street就有像劍橋那樣古老的石板路，還有數不清的商店、餐廳跟酒吧，同時又可以遠眺遠方的山坡跟樹林，有哪裡比Guildford更適合居住呢？
再來說到大四的那堂旅遊管理課，因為課程內容的關係我們有很多機會可以上台報告不同的國際旅遊餐飲業的公司，相關的公司可以從快餐店Taco Bell討論到航空公司Emirates，並且在找這些公司的資料的時候找出興趣來～再加上我個人是一個非常外向又很愛跟陌生人閒聊的人，覺得實在是太適合走飯店餐飲的路線，所以當下就決定了未來念研究所的時候要念觀光旅館管理相關的課程。
最後也最重要的，為什麼會選擇來薩里大學念觀光管理碩士呢？
當然是因為它的Hospitality Management課程是全英國第一名，更是全世界第五名喔！這麼高的排名、離倫敦又這麼近，再加上我在淡大的教授研究所也是在這裡畢業的，二話不說薩里大學就成為我申請研究所的第一目標。
噹噹～以上就是我為什會選擇來薩里大學的原因喔～真是個開心選擇研究所的過程 🙂
下個禮拜小編要帶大家來去巴黎囉！好期待～那我們下禮拜再見啦！掰掰！
Hello guys! The weather today is still not very delightful (it was so sunny yesterday!!!), but I’m very happy because tomorrow I’m going to Paris!!! So we’ll be talking about Paris next week yay! Hopefully that the weather will be nice there (gonna take a lot of pictures). OK! Today I’m going to talk about why I chose to come to study postgraduate here in the UK, why I want to study International Hospitality Management and why I finally chose the University of Surrey to be my new home for two years of study. Everything traced back to my 3rd year as an exchange student in Sweden and a tourism and hospitality course on my 4th year in the undergraduate study.
I studied International Business Management in my bachelor degree in English, therefore after 4 years of study, I was quite used to listen to lectures and writing reports in English. In the 3rd year of my undergraduate degree, I was quite lucky to be selected as an exchange student and had the chance to travel to Stockholm, Sweden, and studied there for one year. As there weren’t a lot of classes, I had a lot of free time to travel around Europe like a backpacker. One day, I came to London with my friends. It was my first-time traveling in England, thus I was very excited about everything I saw before on my geography textbook and I visited all of them: Big Ben, Tower Bridge, River Thames, British Museum, Abby of Westminister and Buckingham Palace etc. For a girl who has always been in love with all kind of historical stories, it was overwhelming, as I was walking along River Thames, thinking about all the stories I know about Henry the 8th and his ex-wife Anne Boleyn who was executed in Tower of London.
At the moment, in November, I was walking alone in the streets of London. Somehow I just felt touched and wanted to know more about England when I saw the Red London Bus passing by and when people just quickly and confidently walked pass me. The second time I came to England I visited Cambridge and it was also a great city to experience the English culture: red-bricked houses, stoned roads, River Thames and the King’s college. Suddenly, I was sure that I wanted to come back to England to study.
After I came to Guildford, I was so happy and surprised to find out that, this town is exactly a mini version of London plus Cambridge! There’re stoned roads on the High street like the ones I saw in Cambridge, and there’re tons of shops, restaurants, and pubs. Meanwhile, you could see hills and forests in a not so far distance. Where could be even more perfect to live in like Guildford?
In my fourth year of the undergraduate degree, we had a class called tourism and hospitality management. Thanks to the course, we had a lot of opportunities to present all the hospitality companies we were familiar with: from fast food restaurant Taco Bell to the airline company Emirates, it was just so fun for me. Moreover, I am a person who is very outgoing and like to randomly chat a lot with strangers, thus I figured hospitality management is exactly what I wanted to study for my future.
Last but not least, Why did I decide to come to Surrey to study MSc International Hospitality Management?
BECAUSE SURREY IS THE NUMBER 1 UNIVERSITY OF HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE UK AND IT IS TOP 5 IN THE WHOLE WORLD!!!! With such good ranking, plus the uni is so close to London, plus my professor in Tamkang University graduated here in Surrey University, there’s without a doubt that the University of Surrey is my first choice for the master study.
OKKK, so above is the reason why I came here to the University of Surrey, it was such a delightful process of choosing my university 🙂
Next week I am gonna take you guys to Paris!!! So excited, it must be so fun, see you next week! Bye!!!
