【利物浦】Campus Tour 利大校園 @ il Giardino Romantico

This is the campus on which I spent a year loving, and will spend the rest of my life reminiscing.

這就是我愛的校園。我花了一年的時間愛著它，但我將要一輩子懷念著它。

School of English - Cypress Building

This is our building. Just a simple cement building, no frills. People often get really disappointed when they see that they had come thousands of miles across oceans, just to study in an old building like this. Do you think we get jealous of the fancy architecture and design of other buildings like the Business School? I can't speak for all, but I don't. Like they say, people who study words, don't need any fancy facilities for satisfaction. Just put us in a room, any room, with books, tables, and chairs, and the rest will deliver itself.

這就是我們的系館。一個簡單的建築物。越洋跨海來利物浦唸書的同學中應該有很多人在看到這棟建築物後會感到非常失望吧？不過你覺得我們會忌妒像商學院有的那些比較嶄新的建築以及設施嗎？我無法代表全數，不過至少我不會。我們學文的人，就跟傳言一樣，把我們丟進一個房間，放幾本書，幾張椅子跟桌子，接著就會自動運轉。

Stair case 樓梯

Corridor 走廊

Staff 全體員工

Seminar room, full of memories. 充滿回憶的上課教室。

Another room loaded with memories.　另一間教室。

Pigeon holes 交作業、領作業的『鴿子洞』

Our very own pigeon hole. 我們的『鴿子洞』。

I hope people don't assume that I know 'everything'. There's a story to this pigeon hole. On one of our assignment handouts, the instructions said: your essays must be in the pigeon hole by XX/XX... I pointed to the words 'pigeon hole' and chuckled to my mate. She realised afterwards that I had not known what it was. I thought it was British slang, like a cute way of calling these things. Turned out, there are actually new things I can learn.

其實我不是什麼都知道。這『鴿子洞』也有個笑話。第一次在老師發的作業說明上看到『請於ＸＸ／ＸＸ將作業交至鴿子洞』時，我指著這兩個字"pigeon hole"向一旁的同學竊笑。他事後才知道原來我不知道鴿子洞指的原來就是這個信箱。所以，這世界上還是有很多我可以學習到的東西。

Sydney Jones Library - home to all books on humanities.
Sydney Jones 圖書館。收藏所有人文相關的書籍。

The library is open for 24 hours for the majority of the year. This was paradise for me. Twenty-five books for check out. Thousands of books I wanted to read, but so little time. I had to choose wisely. Yet, I still didn't get to read half of the books I had been interested in.

大部分的時間都是24小時開放。這簡直就市『天堂』。可以外借25本書。有幾千本我有興趣的書，卻只有那麼一點點的時間。我當然要謹慎選擇。不過即使如此，我想念的書裡面我也還唸不到一半。

Computer area 電腦區

This was where some of the work got done. Of course, this was also the place where I get myself distracted by going on Facebook and chatting with friends back home. They had so much patience with me, as these computers did not have Chinese characters input software.

這是我認真的地方。當然也是我不認真的地方。一下上Facebook，一下又跟遠在台灣的朋友們聊天。不過大家對我都很有耐心，因為這裡的電腦沒有中文輸入。

Service desks. 服務區。

That, by the way, is where I got my dissertation bounded.

順帶一提，就是他們幫我定裝論文的。

Link to Grove Wing - now we go to where it really matters to me.
現在要到對我最重要的地方。

The literature section. 文學類。

Oh, how I miss walking down the aisle of books, knowing that I could pick up any random book and find something interesting in it. When will I ever get this feeling again?

真懷念那種走下去整排書籍，知道即使隨便拿走一本書，我也可能會覺得他很有趣的感覺。什麼時候才能再有這種感覺呢？

Silent study area, but usually it's not that silent...
自修區。通常只要有大學生在，一定會很吵。。。

Group study rooms. 團體討論區。

Check-out machine. 借書用的系統。

Looking out from the library window. 從圖書館向外看。

Abercromby Square. Abercromby 花園。

John at the No. 5 Cafe. 一到五賣我咖啡的約翰。

The corner where I'd used to sit. 我常坐的角落。

Bistro above the cafe. 咖啡店樓上的小吃部。

Water, sauces - self service. 飲水、醬料。自取。

Simple, but delicious. 簡單，但好吃的地方。

Guild of Students. 學生會館。

Courtyard Cafe. 庭院咖啡（有人要問哪裡有庭院嗎？）

Foundation Building. 這是行政大樓。

This is an important building, because this was where I'd used to do my work as a student ambassador. But more importantly, there's Costa, Greggs, Subway, and further down, the evil Tesco.

這是一棟具有重要意義的建築物。除了它是我以學生大使代表身分工作的地方，看看圖片中有的Costa（咖啡店）、Subway、Greggs（賣三明治以及其他輕食的連鎖店）、還有已經沒辦法入鏡的邪惡Tesco。

Foundation building, sitting right next to our landmark building - the Victoria Building.

行政大樓正位於我們的地標建築旁－維多利亞大樓。