Blogs from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America - page 63

It is strange to say but this will most likely be my last entry from Boston. The year has come to a close and I am ready to move on. In all, it has been around a 9-month waiting process since I applied to the JET Program back in November. However, it was well worth the wait and my excitement to return to Japan hasn’t wavered since the first day I filled in the application. In a matter of 8 days I will be heading off to Japan, and after a week of speeches and training in Tokyo, I will be making my way to my new home, a small island of 120 people in the Japanese Inland Sea. My bag is packed, or bags I am ashamed to say, and now I am busy wandering ... read more

Hoping to set this all up and get it running before I go- Welcome to my travelblog! I'm not much of a writer, but I sure like to go and look and will certainly try to tell you what it is I am seeing. Here's the lowdown. I am leaving 1 WEEK FROM MONDAY on the longest and arguably the coolest trip I have made. Starting in Boston, flying to London, ending in the rainy rainy monsoon season of Northern India. Namely, and for about a month, the Rajasthan route- Dehli, Agra, Pushkar, Udaipur, Jodhpur. Shortly thereafter, we're headed through Himachal Pradesh to the mountain towns of Dharamsala and McLeod Ganj in the lovely (at least I've heard they're lovely) Himalayas to spend a couple of months teaching English and hanging out. At least this is ... read more

Boston, the so called "hub of the solar system", this may be true but both me and Claire ‎have been ill and therefore didn't see much of the city at all. ‎ One day Claire was ill so we sat in the park, one day I was ill so ....... we sat in the hostel ‎and then in the park. ‎ The few occasions when we did venture out we made it as far as the Cheers bar the ‎inspiration for the US sitcom or just down the main street. ‎ On Sunday we watched the world cup final, we made our way to the Italian area the place ‎was really bustling but we couldn't get anywhere near a TV screen. We watched some of ‎the game in the city square on the big screen but ... read more

Oh boy is it hot here, 30C and all sunshine. Its been along time since I have had a face full of dripping sweat! Also it feels bizzare being back here now - as you know the place was flooding nearly 3 weeks ago when I arrived from Manchester. I had a walk around Boston Common and the lakes have returned to their normal levels and the city is really busy now with all the good weather drawing in the tourist gravy train. However, I had the pleasures of the subway today - which normally would be hot and stuffy but the blazing heat that is cooking the surface people made it seem more pleasent below! I have had a big interest in John F Kennedy for about 4 years and so I was excited by ... read more

This is my last week at "home," although I'm pretty sure that I don't spend enough time here for it to merit that title-- and I am cramming Spanish so much it almost feels like I'm in a Spanish speaking country. I don't normally watch TV, but I have been watching hours of the Spanish channel. I listen to only Spanish music. I am translating several of the children's books people (mostly my mom) donated into Spanish, "helping" my sister with her Spanish homework, making more Spanish flashcards and flipping through the hundreds I have already made, limiting my thoughts to only things I can think about in Spanish... it's awesome. I am so excited and scared about spending the summer in Peru, although the fear is not so much fear of danger as it is ... read more