However, in spite of that, I have been able to get a few adventures together. Let us travel back in time a bit:
Saturday, Oct 3, 2009. First ever Red Sox game at Fenway Park. In the words of a famous New Englander: "Freakin' sweet!"
So I went to the game with my roommate and his friends from Ohio, so they were all decked out in Indians apparel (they were the visiting team), and I, for fear of the nearing playoffs atmosphere, had to sneak in my Jim Edmonds Redbirds shirt underneath my jacket. But I will say that Fenway Park is really cool. We were up as high as you could go for the standing room only tickets, but you still had a real good view of the field and what was going on.
But as a baseball lover, it kind of just hit me when I was watching the game. This is the site of a lot of baseball history. Babe Ruth played here. Ted Williams. Carlton Fisk. Carl Yastrzemski. This is the field were some of the greats (who didn't wear the birds on bat) played. There was even a place within the park that you could stroll down and see some of the photos of the famous players and plays. Now, of course few of them occurred in the World Series until 2004, but still, history.
Plus, the Indians lost, and I called a grand slam from former Indian Victor Martinez, which depressed my roommate and his friends while 50,000 people around us cheered. It's the little things in life that you have to enjoy. A walk in the park. Seeing the stars in the clear night sky. Calling your roommate's favorite player who was traded to the other team hitting a grand slam to give the Sox the lead. The little things.
V-Mart Grand Slam
Parker's Reaction to said Grand Slam
Monday, Oct 12th, 2009. Irish music night at the Green Briar. OMG.
So since I'm sure you are wondering just what this was, let me explain. Every weekend, usually on a Friday night, the Theology folks organize a get together at a local pub so that we can meet and just have some fun together before going back to the backbreaking amount of work that we need to do each week. This weekend we did something different, and since we had off on Monday for Columbus Day (fat lot of good that did me, I don't have classes Mondays anyway), they decided that we should go to the Green Briar. It's an "authentic" Irish pub close by.
Anyways, they have an Irish music night on Mondays, and I'm not exactly sure how they organize it. All I know is that I walked into 20 or so people gathered around playing authentic Irish music. There were fiddles, and a bagpipe, a could of accordions, a couple of guitars, and the Irish drum thing, whatever it's called. But it was SOOOOOO good. I love Celtic music, it's good for the soul, and to hear all these people just randomly (?) getting together and knowing all the songs by heart and playing them was fantastic. So great. Definitely made my Monday night.
Friday, Oct 16th, 2009. Social night at Cambridge.
This past Friday we headed out to Cambridge, where Harvard's located. There was a great pub out there that we all hung out at, but that wasn't what made this one cool.
What made it cool was that the Jesuits were able to come out and drink and talk with us. I got to just talk with the dean of the whole school, Fr. Dick Clifford. I also have a class with him, but it was really cool to just be able to talk with him. Really interesting guy, like pretty much everyone I run into up here. I reiterate again, I love the people up here in Boston. The Theo folks are a great deal of fun and are really good peeps. Glad to have made friends with them.
Sunday, Oct 18, 2009. SNOW!!!
That's right. It freakin' snowed! Granted, it didn't stick, and it only lasted for the afternoon and night on Sunday, but still, it snowed!!! I got myself into a nice little wintery/holiday spirit while watching the Patriots score 59 points on the Titans. I was very happy for the snow, which is good, because if everyone who actually lives here is correct, I'll pretty much be seeing nothing but snow from October until about July, give or take a month.
So there you go. Some actual adventures in Boston. There are certainly more to tell, but some of them you'll just have to wait for until you see me again ;) Pax.
-C. Clow
"We keep running through the tracks we made
When the snow was on the ground.
Trying hard to make sure we never lose track
Of where we came from, so long ago
We have to leave, we don't want to go."
-SpiritRising (a.k.a. yours truly), "So Beautiful"
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