Sunday, 10. September 2006
birthday at M.I.T.
saturday was ksenia’s birthday, taking into consideration our permanent failures to organize a meeting, probably the only possibility to gather more than two fulbright students in one place. with two bottles of red wine – one from california, another one naturally from chile – and the pineapple i got at “hannaford’s” diego and i started from the harvard square to look for hampshire street in cambridge. on the way i couldn’t help not taking picture of one of the figures showing that elections are coming…
he knew some polish, which somehow i didn’t trust… and some bosnian… and learned “labas”… and gave us a sheet for signing as the supporters of the republicans. i think that won’t work… but again my camera puts us in somehow interesting situations and interesting conversations, diego observed…
the party was outside, in the sun that unexpectedly returned to new england. in fact it was almost as hot and as humid as in the good old times in miami:) well, maybe less, but at least a reminder of that. something 84 degrees fahrenheit… minus 32 and divided by two that makes 26 degrees celsius.
the other two fulbrighters that were there was karima and ulrike – both from germany. karima is studying fine arts and has a wonderful studio overlooking downtown boston for her paintings. and ulrike is studying american culture, although she graduated from anthropology, so a familiar soul:)
then there was the russian role-playing-loving company that i met a week ago.
after eating some self-boiled meat and mushrooms we headed towards M.I.T. (the massachusetts institute of technology, i think the best university of sciences in the world) where there was a movie arranged for our company – monty python and the holy grail. what i really liked was the infinite or never-ending corridor of M.I.T. and the famous white dome during the blue hour… and not the full bag of diet and normal coke that we had…
after the movie we headed home… in the subway you can find different things to do while waiting… there is the history of cambridge on the walls, there are the musical hammers that you can move with the handle on the wall…
unfortunately, karima left her photo camera at M.I.T. and had to go back. diego was too tired to do anything. and i caught my free brandeis shuttle from harvard square to go home… with several dozens of undergraduate students after their first time in boston downtown… talking about everything, except anything serious… well, let’s face it, it was only loud discussion of how who looks, who is pretty and who is not, who has fashionable clothes and who goes out with whom. really interesting to listen to that for half an hour on my way here and the same on the way back:) but people say that with weeks there will be less freshmen heading downtown or to cambridge… the sooner, the better.
as my cell phone was dead, i couldn’t call simon… but he was writing his paper for school, anyway… and stephan and uli were somewhere climbing the mountains… so i just went home. and had a really deep sleep:)
he knew some polish, which somehow i didn’t trust… and some bosnian… and learned “labas”… and gave us a sheet for signing as the supporters of the republicans. i think that won’t work… but again my camera puts us in somehow interesting situations and interesting conversations, diego observed…
the party was outside, in the sun that unexpectedly returned to new england. in fact it was almost as hot and as humid as in the good old times in miami:) well, maybe less, but at least a reminder of that. something 84 degrees fahrenheit… minus 32 and divided by two that makes 26 degrees celsius.
the other two fulbrighters that were there was karima and ulrike – both from germany. karima is studying fine arts and has a wonderful studio overlooking downtown boston for her paintings. and ulrike is studying american culture, although she graduated from anthropology, so a familiar soul:)
then there was the russian role-playing-loving company that i met a week ago.
after eating some self-boiled meat and mushrooms we headed towards M.I.T. (the massachusetts institute of technology, i think the best university of sciences in the world) where there was a movie arranged for our company – monty python and the holy grail. what i really liked was the infinite or never-ending corridor of M.I.T. and the famous white dome during the blue hour… and not the full bag of diet and normal coke that we had…
after the movie we headed home… in the subway you can find different things to do while waiting… there is the history of cambridge on the walls, there are the musical hammers that you can move with the handle on the wall…
unfortunately, karima left her photo camera at M.I.T. and had to go back. diego was too tired to do anything. and i caught my free brandeis shuttle from harvard square to go home… with several dozens of undergraduate students after their first time in boston downtown… talking about everything, except anything serious… well, let’s face it, it was only loud discussion of how who looks, who is pretty and who is not, who has fashionable clothes and who goes out with whom. really interesting to listen to that for half an hour on my way here and the same on the way back:) but people say that with weeks there will be less freshmen heading downtown or to cambridge… the sooner, the better.
as my cell phone was dead, i couldn’t call simon… but he was writing his paper for school, anyway… and stephan and uli were somewhere climbing the mountains… so i just went home. and had a really deep sleep:)
jusionyte, 18:31h
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