Bostoooooon

108 days!

Happy Thanksgiving!

From last Wednesday till Sunday, I was in Boston, Massachusetts.


Wednesday

I got up at 3.30am. (#TheThingsYouDo)

My friend and fellow Aupair Michelle picked me up at 4.30am and drove me to Syracuse what took an hour so that I could be there one hour before the bus leaves. And guess what - the bus left 20 minutes late! At least I had two seats for myself. I couldn't sleep, but I listened to music and kind of slept. Half sleep. There was something wrong with the bus so we all had to get off in Albany, New York. They changed buses and after a 40 minutes break we were on our way to Boston again.

Surprisingly we arrived on time! I don't know how they managed to do that. But we were in Boston around 1.35pm. So the bus ride took about 7hours.

Katha (my friend from back home, the one that already visited me in Ithaca) picked me up from the bus station. She is studying in Boston! So we went to her dorm and I made myself look like a person.

Lunch was so great! Really, the food in that university is not bad. No comparison to normal school food. Also, the students don't have to pay for it. Well, I guess the costs are included in the fee they have to pay in general, but they don't have to pay extra. And I was allowed to eat for free too because every student has a certain amount of "guest meals". Soooo all you can eat for free! It's like in a hotel there. With buffets and stuff. I'd really have a problem if I lived there. Food all day long for free ...

After lunch, we took the T (Boston subway) to get to the cinema.

MOCKINGJAY DOUBLE FEATURE !!! Oh yes. It was great. Terrible. But great. It's over now! ohmygod. It's so weird when you look forward to these movies coming out every year and now it's over!

You know, for Katha's birthday, we always had the tradition to go to the cinema because all of the good movies come out around her birthday. At first, we watched Twilight and then always The Hungergames. I wonder what comes next ...

the cinema

By the way, I'm getting used to American - salty - popcorn. Ugh. Still miss sweet popcorn though.

the dorm

On our way back to her dorm, we stopped at Dunkin Donuts and I had my first Munchkins ever. They're good! Actually we only wanted 25 of them, but DD was about to close so the guy gave us all of them. Which were about 40. 

Thursday

We went on a Duck Tour!

It's with these vehicles that can drive on streets and also float on water.

I'm always a bit skeptical when it comes to City Tours cause sometimes they are SO boring. But this was one really fun. Thanks to our guide! He was crazy. But really funny. I like him. 

please pay attention to his purple beard

 Afterwards, we walked through Boston to have lunch with one of Katha's friends.

On our way there, we went to the library which is beautiful and we also saw the Tipton! Remember The Suite Life of Zack & Cody ? The original hotel is there!

The Tipton !!

We had lunch in a "German" restaurant. They had some German dishes, but the most  German thing there was the decoration that consisted of different kinds of beer.

Afterwards, we walked to Primark. On the way, we stopped at a cafe to eat cake. A lot of walking and a lot of eating, yep.

Boston (Berlin right next to it)

I bought shoes at Primark cause my shoes (my favorite ones !!!) kind of broke on Wednesday. Wearing the new shoes resulted in a blister that hurt like hell. So at the end of the day, I limped through Boston.

Cupcake Art

After Primark, we bought Cupcakes and walked some more.

Inside of Quincy Market

My pal Samuel Adams

It's FOOD for your Christmas Tree

We also walked (limped) through  Beacon Hill which is a beautiful neighborhood. I went for the first time into a Whole Foods! It's like our Wegmans (maybe Wegmans is even better, shht).

In Beacon Hill

In the Public Garden

Friday

University time!

I accompanied Katha to her Chemistry and her Psychology class. I didn't understand one word in Chemistry (dropped it in school two years ago), but Psych was interesting. And now I really want to go to college! As a real, whole time student. Oh well, next year.

Katha also showed me the campus.

In the evening, we went to MIT and Harvard. I ate at Chipotle for the first time. We also had Cannoli from Mike's Pastry. The. Best.

Saturday

Shopping on Newbury Street!

There is not really more to say about that.

On the way to Newbury Street

At some point, it was so cold that we wanted to get hot drinks from Starbucks. Then, we saw a Ben & Jerry's shop. A Ben & Jerry's shop !! So we had ice cream instead.

Newbury Street

We walked to Quincy Market again where I had my first Lobster Roll! And Boston Cream Pie. It was delicious.

But actually we went there to see the tree lighting! Yes, they lighted their Christmas Tree on November 21. Why not :p

The ceremony was quite fun. Everybody sang Christmas songs which was kind of weird. But - slowly getting into the Christmas mood, as I said.

We took a lot of ugly selfies. I am only gonna post one xD 

Sunday

Katha's birthday!

I profited from the chocolate her family back home sent her. Yay Katzenzungen! My German friends will understand me.

And then it was already time to go to Ithaca again.


I had so much fun in Boston!
The only thing that I didn't like was the bathroom in the dormitory. Common bathroom. No need to say more.

xoxo
Christin