Before Travelling To England Last year, with the help of my family and a professional agent, I received an offer for a postgraduate program, from The University of Manchester. I was really excited because Manchester is a great city with thriving music, and of course, Manchester University is pretty famous and has a good reputation with high-quality education. Although my language level has already met the requirements of the course, I still applied for a pre-sessional English course since I've been always wanted to get used to everything in a foreign country earlier, so that I will be able to make more friends, travel to more places, and behave better in class. But in the meantime, it means that I'll be in the UK earlier, on August 4. People always feel sad when it's time for leaving. Today I met my best friend from high school, when I hugged her and said "see you next year", my eyes were so teary that I couldn't look her in the eyes, then I left without looking back. I can't picture the scene when I say goodbye to my parents. However, I need to grow up and fight for myself, I'm sure I can handle everything well when I'm in the UK. I can Skype my parents when feeling homesick, I can go shopping in a Chinese supermarket or just have dinner at a Chinese restaurant when missing Chinese food, I can go travelling in Europe or even talk about Game of Thrones with British people when I feel bored :p I'm flying to England in 11 days, which makes me nervous but excited. Wish me luck.