Visiting Manchester, England/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Manchester, England/Carlos Pueblo

There are several reasons brought me to Manchester, England and

I like to describe them. First, my neighbor Ed passed the Singapore

Air one way ticket promotion from Houston IAH to Manchester to

Me and I made it before the end of period. Secondly, my classmate

at Auburn, Janet Crawford was a graduate from Manchester University

In the 70’s when there was a young Chemistry professor had some

research corporation with our graduate program and she was here due

to that reason. Later, she married my roommate, Ralph. I went to visit

them in Chicago, Illinois before their retirement to Knoxville, Tennessee.

Thirdly, Manchester is a famous city with the industrial heritage during

that time of the industrial revolution in textile. Industrial revolution has

made England become British Empire.

The plane is landed at Manchester Airport and replaced the crew then

continue its route to the Eastern Asian, Singapore. I took a shuttle bus

to the City Center and walked to my hostel near the Piccadilly Garden,

not a real flower garden yet a big square for the gathering of citizens.

I saw a Chinatown near the Garden and went to check immediately

after release my luggage. There is a bazaar type of food stands on one

end of the Garden with fruits vendor. I bought some inexpensive items

for my daily ration. I had a late lunch one day at a Cantonese restaurant

and bought a big lobster of Irish Straight and cooked it at the kitchen of

the hostel.

One day, I marched to the campus of the University of Manchester via

the Piccadilly Train Station where I paid my senior discount pass. The

University is the largest in student enrollment in the United Kingdom, of

Course, also famous of the quality of education. I saw the Faraday Hall in

name of the famous electrical-chemist, the Faraday theory which I learned

at high school chemistry and also physical chemistry in college. I saw a

set of Lunar New Year poster on the door of a family dormitory and I

realized the population of Chinese students. I also met parents from

Suchow, China to visit their daughter at my hostel.

There are programs sponsored by the Manchester Authority to include

diversified culture in the city, yet I was not impressed either by the Buddhist

Center or the Chinese Contemporary Center of Art; however, I was very

Impressed by a craft center called Manchester Craft Design Center, not far

From my hostel.