Memoirs from Boston
After a saga of a night (two nights previous to arrival in Boston) Hels and I had spent on Mark Moran's computer looking for accomodation in Boston, the best we could do was a dodgy hostel just south of the city center that was located above a Hooters and next to a Coyote Ugly Bar and across the road from the World's Best Bar that had rave reviews about a dreaded 2am curfew and biting bed mites!!!! And all these value adds for $40 per night-- what a bargain...
Anyways, the following night which was the night before we left for Boston, we caught up with the Trammels which was cool, admidst a kickin house party at our host family's house. Sarah, a really old school friend of mine mentioned that another old school friend of ours, Eddie, from back in the Manhunt days was studying in Boston and she was able to put in a call to him for us.
Luckily enough he was just drunk enough at the time to say, "Melina from Auuusssstralia? Sure, they can come and stay with me." Sweet! Without really knowing what we were in for, we had a roof above our heads, with hopefully no bed mites and banging parties, but with cautionary warnings from Sarah about "macking on and getting wasted".........
After one hell of a day of travel to get to Boston, Hels and I stepped out of the train station and almost died as we stepped into the icy wind... who's great idea was it to pack light (and send a bunch of stuff back) and just buy stuff when we got there!
It was late at night (which was unplanned thank you mother, but as travellers ,we are always running late) when we rocked up and walking around the Bostonian streets down town with massive packs on our backs and only two layers on was not the funnest of activities.... what's more, we had both woken up with colds that morning, so we were particularly cranky.
We decided to head to Eddie's apartment after buying some cold stuff even though Eddie wasn't there yet. We knocked on the door and interrupted a very important catch up between Eddie's housmate, the infamous Elay ( an intense physics and philosophy student at Boston Uni) and Yonaton (a laid back neuroscience and philosophy major at Harvard Uni) and got straight into deep discussions with them about the meaning of life, the evilness and goodness of capitalism and other topics that really aren't small talk ice breaker material. What's more, we interupted their dinner, so we joined them instead.
A couple of hours later we were all sitting around the dinner table talking and laughing like old friends, when my ol friend Eddie walked in the door after a whole day of travelling. It was a funny moment cos as Elay pointed out, we were better friends with them now than the weight mine and Eddie's f'ship from 9yrs ago carried. "they're my friends"
Although Hels and I were sick and bone tired (does that work?) we had a great night of jamming on the households music setup and chillin. good times....
Boston, now here's a place I could live....
The next few days went way too quickly in my opinion as Eddie basically put his life on hold to show us a good time in his uni town. Over 250 000 ppl come to Boston to study so as you can imagine, it is quite youth-friendly. Lots of shopping, a visit to the Boston Commons and rippin it up at a Raggae nite at Phoenix Landing kept us always busy. What's more Hels and I spent a day up a Babson College, gathering info for VT and the BBE Course and building some rapport with the Entrepreneurship Course Faculty.
The visit to this amazing city was finished up with a visit to Walden Ponds the home of Thoreau (poet, author, a pioneer in trancendentalism) and Hels got to see the place that her grandparents farm was named after. Beautiful mirror lake surrounded by gorgeous colorful trees made a great spot for a brisk walk and some reflection before rushing off to catch our transport back to our home base on the east coast, NJ.
Next on the itinerary, the Big Apple, NYC.
Love you all, make sure you let me know what you've been up to.
Mel
xx
Anyways, the following night which was the night before we left for Boston, we caught up with the Trammels which was cool, admidst a kickin house party at our host family's house. Sarah, a really old school friend of mine mentioned that another old school friend of ours, Eddie, from back in the Manhunt days was studying in Boston and she was able to put in a call to him for us.
Luckily enough he was just drunk enough at the time to say, "Melina from Auuusssstralia? Sure, they can come and stay with me." Sweet! Without really knowing what we were in for, we had a roof above our heads, with hopefully no bed mites and banging parties, but with cautionary warnings from Sarah about "macking on and getting wasted".........
After one hell of a day of travel to get to Boston, Hels and I stepped out of the train station and almost died as we stepped into the icy wind... who's great idea was it to pack light (and send a bunch of stuff back) and just buy stuff when we got there!
It was late at night (which was unplanned thank you mother, but as travellers ,we are always running late) when we rocked up and walking around the Bostonian streets down town with massive packs on our backs and only two layers on was not the funnest of activities.... what's more, we had both woken up with colds that morning, so we were particularly cranky.
We decided to head to Eddie's apartment after buying some cold stuff even though Eddie wasn't there yet. We knocked on the door and interrupted a very important catch up between Eddie's housmate, the infamous Elay ( an intense physics and philosophy student at Boston Uni) and Yonaton (a laid back neuroscience and philosophy major at Harvard Uni) and got straight into deep discussions with them about the meaning of life, the evilness and goodness of capitalism and other topics that really aren't small talk ice breaker material. What's more, we interupted their dinner, so we joined them instead.
A couple of hours later we were all sitting around the dinner table talking and laughing like old friends, when my ol friend Eddie walked in the door after a whole day of travelling. It was a funny moment cos as Elay pointed out, we were better friends with them now than the weight mine and Eddie's f'ship from 9yrs ago carried. "they're my friends"
Although Hels and I were sick and bone tired (does that work?) we had a great night of jamming on the households music setup and chillin. good times....
Boston, now here's a place I could live....
The next few days went way too quickly in my opinion as Eddie basically put his life on hold to show us a good time in his uni town. Over 250 000 ppl come to Boston to study so as you can imagine, it is quite youth-friendly. Lots of shopping, a visit to the Boston Commons and rippin it up at a Raggae nite at Phoenix Landing kept us always busy. What's more Hels and I spent a day up a Babson College, gathering info for VT and the BBE Course and building some rapport with the Entrepreneurship Course Faculty.
The visit to this amazing city was finished up with a visit to Walden Ponds the home of Thoreau (poet, author, a pioneer in trancendentalism) and Hels got to see the place that her grandparents farm was named after. Beautiful mirror lake surrounded by gorgeous colorful trees made a great spot for a brisk walk and some reflection before rushing off to catch our transport back to our home base on the east coast, NJ.
Next on the itinerary, the Big Apple, NYC.
Love you all, make sure you let me know what you've been up to.
Mel
xx
posted by chan at 7:03 PM
2 Comments:
I must say excellent entry Mel
Hey Mel,
How on earth did I miss reading this gem? Certainly details some more of those adventures - how great that you've actually catching up with old pals after all these years, whether or not you actually still knew them. Guess they're new pals now as well.
Anyway, sorry I didn't respond to this sooner; it's great.
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