A day in Boston

This past Saturday I took a day trip to Boston =] It was an hour and 20 minute bus ride from campus to South Station where I met my friends: William from France, Emily from Hong Kong, and Scott from South Korea (Charles from South Korea also met up with us later in the day). Scott goes to Boston University so he was our "tour guide" for the day. We started in Chinatown, which was very cool. Emily really enjoyed being able to share some of her culture with us, making us try bubble tea and black sesame soup (which was cold and desert-like, I got addicted). It was fun to listen to her talk with the vendors in Mandarin! Then we walked down to the Boston Harbor and looked at the yachts and sailboats, what a beautiful sight! We ate lunch there at a little crab and lobster shack, I had lobster mac-n-cheese, which was pretty much just macaroni noodles with lobster bisque poured on top. It was delicious! Then we headed toward the university campus, which was so cool because you couldn't even tell where the city ended and the university began. All of the dorms were beautiful apartments just like the rest of the city. The apartments reminded me of a mix of : Full House, Friends, Seinfeld, and Hitch. We went into their giant library which was very historical with paintings and sculptures and wonderful architecture. We sat in the courtyard for a while there and it reminded me of the Roman Baths in London. Then we stopped and listened to an acapella group from NYU, they said they had a show that night so I stopped and talked with them, it turns out they are all a part of Intervarsity too! I sang some songs with them and then we headed to check out a large cathedral on the corner. There was a large banner letting everyone know there would be a "blessing of the athletes there" because this week was the Boston marathon. We saw a lot of people training as we walked the streets. We also walked past Fenway Park and the Red Sox were playing that evening! The crowd was crazy and there were soooo many tickets shoved in our faces: TICKETS! WHo wants TICKETS! It was a blast =] We stopped by Scott's dorm and headed to dinner. We went to a Chinese place where they have community-style meals. In the center of the table is pots with boiling water with flavorings/sauces. Everyone orders various raw meat, vegetables, and noodles. Then we put all of the ingredients around the center of the table, drop what we want into the pot, wait for it to cook, and take it back out onto your plate. You've gotta be quick or someone will take the food you put in for boiling! It was so fun. It was also a trick because I only could use chopsticks! For desert we went to a frozen yogurt place called MIXX where you get a dish, go through a fro-yo buffet of hundreds of toppings, then pay for it by weight. I had almond flavored fro-yo with bananas and coconut and anything peanutbutter (pieces, cups, etc). After that, we walked around a bit more and hopped on the amtrak back to UNH. And that was my day in Boston =]

Emily and I

William and Scott

William again

Charles "Chuck"

Our other friend from BU, Forrest

Hot Pot

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