Student Experience: CELOP Students Reflect on Recent Trip to Old Sturbridge Village

in Highlight
November 17th, 2017

“Before I visited Old Sturbridge Village, I have never known about USA’s traditional culture and history. But after I visited there, I could know their old lifestyles and differences between our country and USA. And more, I can understand this day’s culture in USA. This experience makes me know a lot of information about USA. And I really want to go again and try to do many things.”

• Hyung Joon Kim
  Korea

“Last Friday we went to the Old Sturbridge Village where we could see the people and culture from 300 hundreds years ago. In this village I saw many people who played a role as the people lived 300 years ago, and I also saw many old buildings. The life is quite different from now. This period maybe people’s life was not as convenient as nowadays, and people had to work very hard to earn a little money, and faced a lot of problem like poor, illness and low-level education. But people still faced all these troubles with a very positive attitude. In this trip I liked the Salem Towne’s house best. When I came into the house, there was only another 2 people here, and we all walked very quietly. As I went upstairs and looked into a room, there was some sunshine through the window illuminated every corner of the room, I felt like there were still someone who lived here and they just went outside to feed their cows and would come back very soon. I felt a kind of peace and happiness in these few minutes. If I had the chance, I really hope I could go back to that period as a trip, to learn and feel their lives, it should be an amazing experience.”

• Jingyi Mao
  China