Britain is countryside

Photo took in University of Cambridge 

When I was in Xiamen,I thought that Britain was full of big cities like London. I expected Britain as a modern country with a lot of tall buildings, but I was wrong. After traveling across nearly the whole country, I found out that the real Britain is not modern cities but countryside.

As I was going along the motorway by coach, I could always see some villas with heavy ivy under the tress on the hills.The villas’ gates were shut,their curtains were drown but I knew there must be some cozy families in them.Near the villas,there were some sheep or cows on the farm.The clean air,the white clouds above your head,the sea gulls in the most blue sky,the stone edges,the hills in an unbroken line,the lush trees on the clear farm,all those things according to one word:home.
 

This is countryside.This is Britain

Thousands of years ago,such a countryside had already appeared in Britain.Years past ,the tiny kingdom which once lived on wool had become a big empire:the empire on which the sun never sets.But those great cause all started from this impressive countryside.Another century past,the empire’s great cause had all died away,but countryside is still the same as it was.Empire would breakdown but the wind blows above Scottish Highland would not change.

In one morning,I stepped onto a pitch of grass which was as soft as a carpet.I saw some fresh trees,and they all whispered to me;when I walked on Scottish Highland,I heard some flying birds whispering as I was sitting by the lake,I bent down to face the lake surface,then the waves whispered to me with no sounds;when I stood in a harvested clear farm,I could hear clouds whispering while they were passing by .They all whispered to me “This is countryside,a very Britain countryside.”

“Yeah”, I answered in my heart .”This is Britain ,too.And Britain is countryside.”

Yue Chen

Class 8,Grade 7

Xiamen No.5 Middle School

Aug 12,2015 in London