This first week of Boston has been like the week of trial and error. I am having to step far out of my comfort zone and learn to adapt. For example: the first time I took the bus I stared at every single person that got on (culture shock).... at one time I think I was the only "white" girl on the bus. Now I don't stare at everyone just the interesting ones.
I have learned that when you don't have a car, a simple trip to the grocery store can take 3 hours.. especially if you miss your bus stop, or can't find it. You have no idea how many times I've said, "Excuse me can I ask you a question, I am lost"? In the past three days, and on top of that you have to carry all your groceries my arms were bleeding today from carrying the heavy bags all over downtown Boston.
I am sure none of you have ever dripped sweat while doing laundry? yeah well today I looked like I had just run wind sprints. The laundry room is in the basement of our apartment.. but in order to get there I have to to go out a door in our master bed room and down these rickety stairs all the way to laundry room with happens to be in the broiler room, which this morning was probably 90 degrees. After running up and down those stairs I almost didn't need to work out.
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| This is the rickety stair case |
The best part of the day was discovering I have a pond/lake/park right by my house that has a running trail around the whole thing. There are lots of people, birds, obese squirrels, and turtles.. today I almost smashed a baby turtle.. he was was far from the lake and I think this old man could see the look of distress on my face and he picked him up and put him back in the water.
I am really starting to love Boston and the big city, but miss my husband during the day. Trey works so hard and is gone from 8:15 till about 6-7.
I think he's pretty happy now though..... he's playing Fifa just in case you couldn't tell
Our days are the exact same only now I go to the gym in the morning early with Chris and then at night by myself because there are so many cute local restaurants I have to. We HAVE to email or facebook because we are doing the exact same thing every day
ReplyDeleteMary! I had no idea you guys were moving to Boston or I guess that you HAVE moved to boston. That is so fun for you guy. I had to laugh when I read this post because I definitely know how it all goes. Especially the whole culture shock deal. We are in Maryland and Jon works in a school in DC. there is only a handful of white teachers and NONE of the students are white. It is quite an eyeopener :). I hope everything is going well for you and that adapting is getting easier. If you are ever bored and need something to do give me a call! I am pretty much available all day everyday. We should also see how long of a drive we are from each other and if it isn't bad meet up!
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