Berkeley Diary
Masaki YAMAOKA
Oct/22/2005 Cities and
Universities I have visited
In my profiles page of this
website, I have indicated the cities and universities I visited during
my trip
abroad so far. In this year, of course, since I am in the USA, I am
enjoying walking about various places in the State of
California. On
this page I write about the places I visited for some porpose each
month. Of course, I don't regard merely
passing through as a
visit. For example, I have arrived at the SFO, (San Francisco
International
Airport), already five times. The airport is located in the City of San
Bruno.
But it is not the destination, so I don't regard it as a city I
visited. However, on the way to Yosemite in July, we stopped in
Stockton, and had lunch there. I enjoyed the atomusphere of the city,
so
I regarded it as a visit.
I have visited several
cities close to Berkeley many times. On my profile page,
however, I describe the cities I visited only at first time. I drew up the
table "cities visited". It indicates the all cities I visited, not
only
at
first time. I will update it at times from now on.
And another pleasure was to visit the
universities. Until now, I have visited the principal universitis
in the world mainly for attending symposiums. Except for
the USA, I list chronologically the following; University of Macau,
Hong-Kong University,
Hong-Kong Chinese
University, University of
Havana, Higher Institution of Art (Cuba), University of
Guanajuato, Chinese Culture University, Shenzhen University, Northeast
Normal University, Peking University, Xiamen University, Tsinghua
University, Kyung-Hee University, Taiwan University, and
National Autonomas University of Mexico, in visited order.
Among these, the most impressive one was the Higher
Institution of Art in Cuba. I appreciated the chorus, the performance
of classical music, and Salsa, by the students. They not only showed
their excellent technique, but also gave us high spirits. It
was unforgettable. The one I thought had the best architecture was
Tsinghua University located next to the
Peking University. I thought the constructions there were art. Every
time I
visit universities, I learn more about what a university should
be.
In the USA, I visited four
Universities in addition to UCB. They are as follows;
Stanford, SUA, UCLA, and UCDavis. I would like to report the impression
of each visit in this diary.
By the way, after September, I
seldom visited any new cities, because I was so busy with research
work. However, today I visited the City of
Burlingame, located south of San
Bruno, to hear a jazz consert, so I decided to discuss my
visits on this page.