Baseball

The greatest event we had this session, in my opinion, was going to a baseball game. This was amazing!

The day before the game I have never seen a baseball game, neither have I known the rules. But Freddie explained us the rules and we went to Fenway Park, America's most beloved ballpark. 

An hour before the game it was raining really hard and almost everyone had thought that they would cancel the game. However, we were very lucky and the rain stopped!!!

 

In this game Red Sox were playing White Sox and a team from Boston won. They also have scored three home runs. As I was explained, it happens very rarely. 

I enjoyed the game a lot; thank you, whoever made a decision to go to this game. And this was really beneficial to my knowledge about USA. I loved it!

We have seen two great and very renown universities - Harvard and MIT!

MIT has really impressed me. It is a really awesome university. We went on an info session and looked around a little bit.

And in MIT I have found the club from one of dreams: MIT Laboratory For Chocolate Science

If I ever get into a university I will either join or create such club.

The info session was very useful; however, I found out that the admittance rate of international students in only 3%, so I feel that I will not be able to study there=(

But, anyway, next we went to Harvard square. We could not get a tour and info session, so we just walked

around, seen the dorms, which were absolutely nice!

Harvard dorms

Harvard was just as I had expected, but MIT had surprised me. But anyway this day was amazing!!!

The Freedom Trail, carousel and Boston College

A lot of things happened in last days. So I am going to tell you about them in the order.

1. We went on the Freedom Trail. Basically, it is just an excursions around the main places of Boston. The man who was leading the excursion was dressed as they used to dress during The Civil War. It was amazing!

Cesar Hernandez punished(left) and our excursionist

A carousel

On the one time we went out, I have seen an amazing thing - a carousel! I didn't ride it that day, but I am going to, I hope=)

2. Today we went to Boston College.

The campus itself is amazing, built in a great neo-gothic style. It's location is suburban, so it's not urban and not in the middle of nowhere.

This is how most college buildings look like

A walkway in Boston College.

Personally, I do not think I would apply to Boston College, although I find it campus amazing. I just do not understand why it is so competetive(their average SAT score is around 2000 - a bit less than in Columbia), if  they are not usually high in university rankings.

I really enjoy my time here, in Boston. Tomorrow promises to be a really exciting day and I am looking forward to it - as to every my day here=)

First impressions

So, finally, I am here, in a glorious city of Boston!!!

I arrived on 5th of July, 3 days earlier the start of the session and the arrival of new students. So I have met students from the previous sessions. Many of them turned to be amazing and fun people, others were nice still =)

When I came here I was really impressed by the Boston Commons. It is a really-really-really nice big park in the center of Boston. We do not get such nice parks back in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The Boston Commons

The second thing I was impressed was the weather. It is warm(but not very hot) and sunny, so I enjoy this weather a lot=)

But today is the day when the session officially starts!!! I was very excited about the coming of new people. It is amazing how I can talk to people from different cities, states, countries and even continents! 

Abbey Road serves a great mission to the world by uniting all people around the world by helping them to understand each other. Such programs as Abbey Road make our world a better place by dint of teaching young people that all human beings are equal regardless of their sex, age, race, nationality and so on. 

So now I have a roommate from Austria, and it is great!!!

Tomorrow we have a diagnostic test and I am very excited about that. As I want to write the test well, I need to have a good sleep, so good night everyone(or whatever time of the day you have now)!!!