On June 26th I met up with Gary and Woo Mi from the TrekAmerica bus tour at the University of California, Berkeley, for a guided tour. Berkeley is one of the most prestigious universities in the world and with it being so close by, I thought it would be worth a walk round.
There were a surprising amount of people on the tour - about 150 - which was split into two groups. In our half, we were the only internationals. The student guide explained the history of the university, which dates back to 1868, and then took us around the campus for about an hour. It was also interesting to hear about the differences between our universities and theirs, particularly the fraternities and sororities with their Greek names.
The campus itself is what you would expect; clean with plenty of grass and classically styled buildings. In the Life Sciences building which we went in, there's even a full T-Rex skeleton on display. After the tour, we went up The Campanile, a large clocktower that dominates the campus. From here you could see over the Bay to San Francisco and around.
We went for lunch in Berkeley, then I said goodbye to Gary and Woo Mi, and went off in search of a camera shop. My camera had been overexposing photos, so I needed to work out what was wrong with it. I found a small independent shop and tried out various combinations of cameras and lenses, eventually working out that it was the lens that was faulty.
