Its 1am now, and the streets are still noisy. This is really a college neighbourhood, and the undergrads here just party all night long. I think the loud chatter and music is only rivaled by the police sirens attracted to this street.
But all these means that its never too late to get home, and its never too unsafe as there will be people up and about the street.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
First Impressions
Its been 1 hectic week since I arrived at Boston, which explains why my travel blog took 1 week before its up. No photos are up at the moment, simply because I havent had time to slowly upload them one by one.
First impressions of Boston are that its really spacious compared to Singapore, and the "T" line (their version of the MRT) is quite chui. the green line, which serves the BU area, is really bad. It consists of 2 tram cars rolling along tracks that were laid since 1914. Its slow, it follows the traffic lights, and it gives you daily surprises. the nearest T station from our place to BU central, where the School of Law is, is only 5 stops, but there's no predicting how many trains we have to change. They have a weird habit here of telling you that the train will run express to another stop 4 or 5 stops away ONLY when they are about to do so. You could happily get on the T, only to be told 1 stop down that it will run express and hence past your station. Oh and it gets really noisy when its underground. Pictures will be up when I find the time to upload them.
The BU school of law is reputably the tallest law school in USA, and that is not a good thing. It has 17 floors and 1 basement, and 6 cranky lifts that didnt work the second time i took it. The people are really nice though, and the LLM class that we are technically attached to, has a wide variety of nationalities, which made for some very interesting meal conversations. We hang out quite a bit with this puerto rican gal, and this german guy who brought his spanish gf over to Boston too. We spent all day complaining about the american habit of drowning their food in sauces, and how we are all going to get fat if we keep eating out all the time.
And for the first time in my life, I got denied alcohol, and its at a law school party, simply because I didnt have my ID with me (in their language, i got "carded"). I end up drinking some sucky cranberry juice. But, it may not be a loss, simply because US beer sucks. haha
And i'm pleased to announce that my cable tv over here has EPL football! Finally I don't have to watch american sports all the time!
Ok more photos will be up as and when i manage to upload them.
First impressions of Boston are that its really spacious compared to Singapore, and the "T" line (their version of the MRT) is quite chui. the green line, which serves the BU area, is really bad. It consists of 2 tram cars rolling along tracks that were laid since 1914. Its slow, it follows the traffic lights, and it gives you daily surprises. the nearest T station from our place to BU central, where the School of Law is, is only 5 stops, but there's no predicting how many trains we have to change. They have a weird habit here of telling you that the train will run express to another stop 4 or 5 stops away ONLY when they are about to do so. You could happily get on the T, only to be told 1 stop down that it will run express and hence past your station. Oh and it gets really noisy when its underground. Pictures will be up when I find the time to upload them.
The BU school of law is reputably the tallest law school in USA, and that is not a good thing. It has 17 floors and 1 basement, and 6 cranky lifts that didnt work the second time i took it. The people are really nice though, and the LLM class that we are technically attached to, has a wide variety of nationalities, which made for some very interesting meal conversations. We hang out quite a bit with this puerto rican gal, and this german guy who brought his spanish gf over to Boston too. We spent all day complaining about the american habit of drowning their food in sauces, and how we are all going to get fat if we keep eating out all the time.
And for the first time in my life, I got denied alcohol, and its at a law school party, simply because I didnt have my ID with me (in their language, i got "carded"). I end up drinking some sucky cranberry juice. But, it may not be a loss, simply because US beer sucks. haha
And i'm pleased to announce that my cable tv over here has EPL football! Finally I don't have to watch american sports all the time!
Ok more photos will be up as and when i manage to upload them.
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