The American experiences (i)

A few days ago, Microsoft took part in the 2015 MVP Global Summit in Seattle, USA, and Summit a few days in the United States to record what he saw and heard.
Won the Microsoft MVP award in April this year. The Microsoft MVP Award certificate looks like this.
Microsoft MVP This award offers a range of opportunities to attend the conference for Learning and Exchange, and the MVP summit is just one of those activities. Prior to this, we have participated in Microsoft Windows 10 Conference, 2015 Microsoft Ignite China Microsoft technology Conference and other activities.
Unlike previous events, the event was held in Seattle, United States, so it was necessary to prepare the country before attending. Since I have never been abroad, I have a great sense of freshness to attend this trip to the country. The formalities of going abroad are rather lengthy, and in addition to buying air tickets, passports and visas are required. Before the visa to check the online information on how the United States visa how difficult, often may be refused to sign and so on, make me very uneasy. This prepares Microsoft Summit invitation letter, school in read proof, MVP certificate, student card, hukou and so on a lot of material. I didn't expect to sign at the U.S. Embassy, the visa officer only saw a Microsoft MVP summit invitation, and then simply asked a few questions to pass. When I came out from the embassy, I could not help but sigh: Microsoft's invitation is quite powerful!

November 1November 1 11 o'clock in the morning depart from the T2 terminal of Beijing Capital International Airport.

The flight path seen in the plane. It can be seen that the plane does not fly in a straight line, but in the form of an arc to fly past. This is because the earth is round, and the arcs on this plane map are closer to the actual distance.

After a flight of about 11 hours, it reached the Seattle Sea-tac International Airport. The local time in Seattle is 6 a.m. on the morning of November 1, which is a little earlier than the time of departure from Beijing.

After coming out of the airport, the MVP from Beijing is going to rent a car and go shopping at Seattle Premium Outlet, north of Seattle. I had no plans for the moment, so I decided to follow them.

Since I came to the United States for the first time, I have a strong curiosity about the things around me. On the way to outlet keep looking around the scenery. I thought I would see a tall building like New York, but actually most of it was a one or two-storey low house. It is normal to think of a small house, after all, the population of this area is not large.

After arriving at outlet, we started shopping. Most of the time I was hanging out with my friends because I wasn't ready to go shopping and didn't have a box to shop for.

In the outlet, it was found that the price is lower here in the United States. Many of the jeans, such as Levi's, are sold in $ s ~ $. With no experience, I had a sweater and a coat in my suitcase before I left, and my friend, who was basically empty-handed, bought clothes here. It seems that they are still more witty.

In the afternoon, I was obviously very sleepy. But the friend reminds said must not sleep, otherwise after a few days of the time difference will not pour over. So I went to the Microsoft MVP Summit to sign up for the place to go. The summit is registered at the Hayatt Hotel in Bellevue (Bellevue City). After receiving the registration information, check in at the nearby Red Lion Hotel.

After the check-in process has been completed, and the local students to work together to eat a dinner. After supper, hurry back to Red Lion hotel to sleep quickly.

November 2Today is the first day of the official start of the MVP summit. Since the jet lag is not reversed, it is late in the morning. It was already 8 O ' keynote, and the first game of the Summit had already begun. So hurried downstairs to eat breakfast.

Breakfast is a Western buffet: bacon, bread, potato nuggets ... The first time to eat is quite fresh.

After a quick breakfast, I took a bus to the Microsoft campus in Redmond (Redmond). The bus took us to Conference Center in Microsoft Campus in Redmond.
Because of the large area of Microsoft campus, there is also a need to do it inside the bus to get to my technical direction of building 37. Conference Center's old gentleman was very enthusiastic, and I took me to the internal bus that I should take when I spoke only a few English words.

As all content of the MVP Summit is protected by NDA, the specific technical content is no longer recorded. The meeting in the morning, I found that the venue is all from Europe and the United States, except me, only 4 are yellow skin. Only later did they know that 2 of them were from Japan and another 2 from the Philippines.

I found that the European and American MVP has a remarkable feature: many of them are very old, some have gray hair, and even one of them is on crutches. This feature is not produced by the admiration, feel that they do the technology of people really very practical.

At noon, I went to Microsoft West Campus for a stroll (my venue is located in East Campus). Found a very interesting thing: our country went to the meeting with an MVP photo was selected as a poster, hanging on the streets are all.

After walking to the Microsoft Visitor Center in West Campus, he went in and found an official shop, and bought a bunch of small souvenirs of assorted.

Afternoon after the meeting, the evening went to Hayatt to participate in welcome reception. Welcome Reception organization is very lively, the number of MVP to participate in a lot, so that they can not find a seat to sit, can only stand to eat things. In the event, I met a lot of MVP in China area. Originally wanted to take a photo, did not expect the phone unexpectedly power. Later found a photo of the official photos of the "family", did not think I unexpectedly was closed eyes.

After the end of Welcome reception, I plan to walk back to the red Lion Hotel and see the night view of the Bellevue City. The American city was sparsely populated at night, with few people on the way and feeling a little insecure. So sped up the pace and quickly returned to the hotel.

November 3Today is the second day of the meeting. Due to the gradual adaptation of the time difference, early morning rushed to the venue. This morning's meeting content and I have made the technology very relevant, so very interested, unconsciously heard the noon. At noon in the Microsoft Conference Center stroll around, found a row of very interesting crystal Cup. The left side of the Crystal Cup is written "celebrating years of commitment and dedication at Microsoft". As we approached, the first Crystal Cup was written with two famous names: William Gates and Steven Ballmer. It looks like this is the year to record the key figures for Microsoft.

The afternoon and evening are arranged with rich activities, no longer detailed records.


November 4Today is a day of free activity for me. All the meetings I have been involved in are over. So I'm going to take a stroll in Seattle district. Early in the morning to the bus station to do sound Transit Express Bus came to Seattle downtown. Walk along the road from downtown to the seaside. Along the way, it was found that the highways in Seattle were tilted much more steeply than the highways in Chongqing.

After walking to the seaside, you can gaze into the continent opposite Puget Bay.

Walk north along the coastline to Seattle Center. There is a landmark building: space Needle (Needle tower).

Inadvertently found that Win8 's lock screen interface unexpectedly contains space Needle.

The Seattle City Pass can be purchased at the ticket office below Space Needle. You can visit a range of attractions with the city pass. After the purchase, you can board Space Needle.
From Space Needle to the South you can gaze at Seattle's downtown.

From Space Needle North you can gaze out into the northern part of Seattle. You can find that there are no tall buildings in the whole area, which are one or two stories.

Space Needle has a very interesting photo wall, which records all the visitors ' photos. Each visitor will have a photograph taken by a staff member before the top of the tower.

My own picture is in it, too.

Next to Space Needle is the Pacific Science Center (Pacific Scientific Centre). Began to think it was a science-related museum, did not expect to go into a children's paradise. Because it is not suitable for my age-group visit, after a cursory turn around and came out.

Next to Space needle is an EMP Museum (Music Experience Museum), which contains a variety of exhibits about musical instruments. The drums, guitars, bass and DJ Dials in the museum can be played on their own. In the middle of the museum there is a magnificent "big tree" tied to a guitar. The "Big Tree" sometimes makes a "click" sound, people think it is going to collapse.

Many of the exhibition halls contain a variety of guitar exhibits.

After Seattle Center came out, along the road south, came to Pike Place (Pike Market). Pike Place is a farmer's Bazaar, which contains a variety of hawkers.

Pike Place is the birthplace of Starbucks coffee. The first Starbucks coffee in the world was opened here.
Several other MVP friends were contacted at Pike Place, who were planning to go to the museum at the Boeing factory south of Seattle. So they took their rented car and came to Boeing's Museum of Flight (Flight Museum).

Outside the museum, a series of large aircraft made by Boeing Company was displayed.

A lot of planes can go in there and find out.

The aircraft in the museum is a very varied one. The black plane in the middle of the room should be the most powerful. I am not a military fan, I do not know what the aircraft model.

It's five o'clock in the afternoon in the Flight museum. Hurried back to Redmond's Microsoft campus to participate in the PG Evening Event. There are so many places to visit this day, I feel really tired.

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The American experiences (i)