Hi, I’m Shenyue Cao, but every time when I introduce myself, I’ll say “Just call me Amy if you want”, I don’t have a preference for Shenyue or Amy. I was born and raised in Taizhou, Jiangsu, China. That’s a small city, I would say, close to Shanghai. I’ve been living in China for 20 years and when I was in my second year in Industrial Design major in my previous college in Tianjin, I decided to transfer to OSU, for a better education.

I’m currently a junior in Landscape Architecture, with a minor in Design Foundation, and I’m also thinking about getting another minor in Architecture. When I need to choose a major for myself, I know I want it to be design-related. Growing up, I’m always interested in painting and sketching. I also found myself have a passion for reading and traveling. They both help me knowing the world better. Every time when I traveled to another city or country, I was fascinated by how different cultures shaped their landscape, architecture and the way the locals live. That’s one of the reasons why I want to join this London trip so much. I’ve never been to England before, but I always want to be there so much.

But why London. I didn’t find anyone who has the same reason as this, but I want to be honest, I’m a big fan of Harry Potter since I was little. Don’t try to ask me any question about it when we were in London, I’m not good at remembering names and locations. So this book affected me a lot, causing me always want to see how Londoners live and how the architecture in London would look like in person. For a more professional reason, after taking some history and theory classes in landscape architecture, the Stone henge and English Museum attracts me most. The density of history stored in both of these two sites makes me so excited about our trip.

Me with my cat, Momo. Credit to Jwoi, my roommate