So, I turned 19 on Saturday. Sort of surreal considering I still feel like I'm 5 sometimes, but I'm going with it and so far it's been great!
I figured that while I ride on megabus back to Athens, I'd write about the crazy but cool weekend I got to spend up in Massachusetts.
My dad and I flew up to Boston on Saturday morning and spent the day at Harvard, where my friend Yehong from high school now attends. We went to the Harvard vs. Columbia football game, which literally felt like a high school game more than a college one, but I loved it a lot anyway. We could actually sit down leisurely and watch football, which would NEVER happen at a UGA game where everyone is literally standing and screaming the entire time. Yehong's mom was also there for parents weekend at Harvard and she gave me a little gift/souvenir: a Harvard vs. Yale scarf! It was lovely and I wore it throughout the entire weekend.
Yehong had to go to some sort of rehearsal at some point, so we had to split. Before we did, my dad came and sat in the football stadium with Yehong's mom and friends and Yehong and I headed to her dorm, where I picked up my before-dead-now-somewhat-alive phone and where she picked up another jacket. This was when I also met Yehong's roommate from New York named Risham, and she was so sweet!
We then left the dorm and I walked back to the stadium by myself.
This is where it gets a little crazy. I walked all the way back to the stadium without a problem, but there was something else that came up: I couldn't find my dad or Yehong's mom or friends anywhere, and I couldn't get in touch with them because (as I later found out) their phones died. I had lost my ticket to get back in, so I somehow found a loophole and crawled under an open gate of the stadium when security wasn't looking. Kind of sketchy, but I managed regardless. Anyway, I spent a good hour just walking around the entire rims of the stadium (I'm sure people probably looked at me like I was a little cray... Hmmmm). I ended up finding my dad after he charged his phone and called me, so by the end of the day I'd sorta forgotten about the incident.
After my dad and I were together again, we met up with Yehong's mom and attended Yehong's practice pageant skit in this place called Farkas Hall. The skit was obviously very unprofessional but the people in it were quite animated, so that made it cooler. Food and snacks were served after in another room, and I stuffed my face with cheese and cheese and grapes and cheese and cookies and cheese and... Oh, did I mention cheese? I was really really hungry.
Yehong then took us to a place called L.A. Burdick's, where the hot chocolate and its melted chocolate-like consistency are to die for. One small cup of hot chocolate was way enough for each of us. What a treat!
We then spent the rest of the evening taking pictures at the bookstore (called The Coop), eating dinner at a Korean restaurant, and meeting more wonderful people, such as Yasmin Siraj, who is a figure skater who may go to the Olympics later on. I passed out sometime around 10pm (exhausted much?) while Yehong and Risham went to sleep at about 3am. I ruined the trend.
The next day was also pretty chill. I met another semi-famous person named Varsha Varman, who is apparently the third best sports shooter in all of India. In Boston, my dad and I had Boston pizza, walked around Boston Commons, Boston Harbor, Quincy Market, the Red Sox stadium, and other places I can't remember.
Although not every second of my birthday weekend was perfect, I still very much have amazing memories to remember. I'm so fortunate I was able to go up to Massachusetts because I know not everyone can travel so easily.
Here's to a great year of being 19! Time to see what the future brings :)