yesterday we went to monticello and charlottesville downtown. due to shortage of the time, we had barely no preparatio about the interest attraction we were going to. until the moment we got off the shuttle, we were aware of the fact that this is a place as Mao's house he used to live in.
the house is marvelous although the design sometimes hard to get. the architecture itself looks spacious while inside the building is comparatively small. maybe the feeling has something to do with the fact that chinese architecture tends to be magnificent, gorgeous, and broad in scale. however, the preservation of the house was impressive. no touh signs everywhere, causious everywhere, no offensive, to visitors from a country like China, they looks like making a fuss over a trifle, a 200-hundred-years-old building really cannot mention in the same breath with cities of 5000-years history.
what left a deep impression is the barrier beside the main house where Thoms Jefferson's whole big family lived in. the barrior is where a lot of slaves working in, with astonishing large-size cellars for wine and beer, which reflected the funny contradiction of the fact the man librate the whole nation owned a great number of slaves.