Sunday, March 22, 2009

Duck is the mascot

What makes York different from other cities in UK? Duck.
If you visit my university, The University of York, you will find ducks everywhere. Yes, duck is the mascot of my lovely university. The duck with the green colour in his head is the mascot. The picture is put in the student's card, including in university brochures.
There are a lof of kinds of ducks (and also birds) you can find here. They are beautiful and sometimes make me jealous because they like to play in the water while I am feeling cold, even it is in winter. Huhhh..
They are very beautiful, but sometimes make me and my friend does not feel comfort because of their 'dunk'..hehe..
"It makes me hate to walk on the grass or this pavement", said my friend every time we pass the street. She needs to hold her trousers to get rid of the dirty 'dunk'.
Every afternoon they will fly to find some food in another place. They will fly in group with V formation, which one of them will lead the mission (leader). If they will find a suitable place fit with what they need, they will stop and try to search the food for their lives, of course.
Don't ever steal or kill any ducks in York, especially in university because it is protected under the law (unwritten). There is a true story about it happened few years ago. One day, a team of security found a dead-duck found lying on the ground. Then, they tried to do some identification like CIA to find out who the killer was. Finally, they knew and got the killer who was identified as a man-Chinese-student. Since a duck is a mascot of the university, finally, the student should leave the university. He was kicked-out just because he killed a very valuable bird in this university. I think a duck is a kind of history of the university. If you come to visit The University of York, you will find a lot of ducks swimming in the lake or playing around the schools as if they wanted to join us studying or doing some research..D. No one can disturb the ducks. Even if the ducks disturb the students by shouting out loudly with their friends or coming into the classroom (perhaps) or passing out their 'dunk'.  
Do you think it is fair if the ducks disturb you and you cannot disturb the ducks, even just a little? I do not know the answer. But actually, the ducks make another colour of our university different from others in UK.

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