BOSTON!! (11/18-19/06)

on saturday morning i went to boston together with marlen (a german aupair). when we arrived we directly get started with the boston freedom trail.

1. Boston Common
2. Massachusetts State House
3. Park Street Church
4. Granary Burying Ground
5. King's Chapel
6. King's Chapel Burying Ground
7. Benjamin Franklin statue and site of the first public school
8. Old Corner Bookstore
9. Old South Meeting House
10. Old State House
11. Site of the Boston Massacre
12. Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market
13. Paul Revere House
14. Old North Church

and the holocaust memorial:

after that we took the "T" (subway) to cambridge and visited harvard and harvard square. gosh!! i felt in love with this college! all the way back in the bus on sunday i was dreaming about a choice to study in harvard. i would do so much to get there. ilene studied there and i'm so jealous now :( the whole campus and especially the dining hall looked so nice warm and old fashioned, like in "harry potter", if you saw the movie...

the best universities in the u.s. are harvard, yale, princeton and columbia (where my englishclass is *proud*). on saturday there was a football game between harvard and yale at harvard. so the whole campus was full of young people (besides the fact that there are about 50 colleges in the boston area, so the city is necessarily very young) who were either wearing harvard or yale sweaters. and we had the double chance to meet some intelligent, good-looking (and rich ;) ) guys, but we totally failed :( :( :(

afterwards we checked in in our hotel. and we couldn't get out this evening because we didn't find any place which would accept a passport copy (like they do in nyc ;) ). so we bought a big cup of ben & jerrys icecream and had a nice and slow evening in bed in front of the tv. and we were very fit on sunday :) (funnily enough the bars and clubs in boston are closing at two in the morning...)

on sunday morning we checked out and went to the prudential tower to get an overview over boston.



afterwards we took a look at newbury street, a street with small shops in nearly every houses first floor.

a "boston bean" and me

then we took a tour through the public library - the first free public library in the u.s.. it's an amazing building and again it just looked like in harry potter...



then we saw trinity church and walked down commonwealth avenue, a very beautiful street with a park in the middle, to the public garden boston common. all i can tell: it's such a gorgeous city! and of course we did some shopping at "filene's basement" :)

commonwealth avenue

boston common