boston

After a tough critique for my painting in painting class on Thursday, I was very eager to get outta town, to go to Boston, and not have to think about risd for a while.

A group of about 20 of us exchange students all took the train at 8:35 to Boston which is an hour north. We all agreed it was nice to get out of Providence because it is actually a pretty small city. Providence feels smaller to me than Victoria, just because a lot of where we go around Providence is a homogenous population of students and school life. It's kind of like living at your school on a permanent basis.

First thing we did was to go to Harvard:

On a Saturday morning, there were more tourists out and about Harvard than students. It was nice, but not too different than Brown, just more tourists. I actually liked the Brown campus better.

Next we went to Beacon Hill in Boston, the historical and nice part of Boston:

It's full of brick rowhouses and brick sidewalks.

Then we had a picnic in the park, I think it was the Boston Commons park. It was beautiful there. There were about a half dozen wedding parties having their pictures taken in the park. I've never seen so many brides and bridesmaids at once. I think brown is the current "in" colour for bridesmaids dresses, by the way.


One thing I noticed about walking through the downtown core in Boston on Saturday was that it felt deserted. I guess it does make a difference to have quite a bit of people living in condos downtown, as Vancouver does, it makes for a more alive city centre when all of the workers have left the office buildings.

All in all it was a nice day and Boston is a pretty city, but didn't have a "big city" feel, but we will probably go back as we only did see a small slice of it.