码头感怀/a short article

Just practice my basic grammartical skills and try to express myself in wirting. Construstive suggestions are welcome! ^_^

That summer  when I first came to this city for my  education, in a building located in the downtown area, I shared  an apartment with two girls who were also my classmates. The building  that we lived in was with high ceilings  and the transportation was convenient. None of us had a car.  As the oldest city in Canada, Scottish style historical buildings like the one we lived in can be found almost everywhere in that peninsula--the downtown area.

With the historical and cultural  manifestations and the pleasantness it offers, this city has been a resort for tourists  from Boston, New York, Quebec,  and Toronto  and some other places mostly in North America. With only  twenty thousand residents living in  the small uptown neighborhood, you can find attractiveness and tourism shops and restaurants sprinkling here and there, and  when cruise ships visit, you can find streets packed with curious tourists wandering around with cameras in hands  in view spots.  Then they disappeared and reappeared. If weather permitting, with no storms, cruise ships usually just stayed for one night and then left. the harbour. When there were no cruise ships visiting, streets would become quiet and peaceful  again.  

 

From where I lived, looking out of  my apartment window  I could not see any beautiful scenes of the city because a building  next to ours blocked our view, so every time when the cruise ships visited the town, my roommates and I would like to poke around in the harbour front area,  observing  tourists, taking a guess on  what city they had come from based on their gestures and expressions.  Facing the soft sea breezes we usually leaned against the balusters of the harborfront building  and  enjoyed the civilization visitors brought to us--- looking at the humongous and luxuriant cruise ship that we had been dreaming to enjoy our holiday vacations on.  

 

Years have gone  by. Today I no longer live in uptown  and  I still haven't gotten enough money to offer a vacation on a cruise ship.  Maybe it is the sign that I am getting old, I have been feeling nostalgic lately, and these days almost every time when driving  by the harborfront, I would  unconsciously make a glance at that spot where my friends and I once stood on  for many times and looked around, enjoying sea breezs while shooting them. I have  lost contact with my two  roommates,  maybe we should search for each other,  maybe in facebook,  or in a forum somewhere like MYSJ,  or maybe someday we will find each other a few feet away.