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Walking in the whispering world, literally – I was in complete amazement.  After out twenty minute presentation, exploring the past of the globe, listening to words of wisdom from Ghandi,

Nelson Mandela, Oprah Winfrey, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Dalai La Martin Luther King, Jr, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr and other aspirational leaders we explored wonders of the Mary Baker Eddy Museum.  http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/

Unfortunately they didn’t sell a globe of the world as I really fancied buying one for adding to my American room.

We also enjoyed (once again) the free delights of Greek frozen yogurt from Ben+Jerrys at their fair trade music festival!  The band that was playing was secretly soulful and played tasteful tunes for us to tap our toes along to.

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Fumetastic fire and toasty acts were delivered at the Hungry Tiger Good Festival.  We headed down to the square not really knowing what was involved other than possibly food and Tigers… .

We actually got our picture taken from the artist herself who designed and painted the tiger-arc, which we accidently made happen.

Fire dancers (and drinkers) hosted a variety of acts ooo’ing and aaa’ing us all as the fire whizzed and spun around in front of us with such fragile human handlers!

 

Following on the festival streak we browsed round China Town during the celebration of the Moon Festival.

We witnessed tinywiny turtles being sold of at bargain prices, traditional Chinese food stalls and authentic arts and crafts.  From there we headed to the north-end, Bostons ‘little Italy’ and enjoyed (for the 1^st time) a cannoli out of the famous Mikes Pastries!

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Croaky voices occurred through the joys of cheering on the successful Andy Murray.  Today we sat in awe watching the final for the Tennis Golden London Olympics watching Murray and Federer battle out the title of winner.

Happy to help – during lunch today we joined the NU Community Service group http://www.northeastern.edu/communityservice/aboutus/index.html .  This will give us the opportunity to do more whilst in Boston, contributing to the communities that need a little ‘TLC’.  So, for the future we’ll be getting our paws dirty and joining in on the high community spirit!  I’m looking forward to making the most of our year in Boston with Northeastern University.

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The inquisitive moment when someone unexpectedly tags you in a post on Facebook….  To my surprise I had been printed in the UKs NO.1 magazine.  My last full day in the UK I spent at Ayr race course, celebrating my year ahead in style at the Sunday race day!

By this time in present I had actually completely forgotten about being ‘papped’ with my close friend Gillian Sharpe, a Glasgow school of art student.   This weekend from the arrival of Daniel I received the Scottish magazine, and now have my own copy to marvel at.

Kindly I was also introduced to the free Boston magazine called ‘Improper Bostonian’ at work when someone had nicely gave me a copy.  Its an insight of all the events, reviews and news on entertainment and activities happening around Boston.  Through reading during lunch I’ve learned some more truths on the ‘dreaded’ Revere Beach, and came to the conclusion that I must try salsa classes and they are so frequent and free to attend it’d be pure rude not to join in! cha-cha-chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

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Zapping the flab down at Zumba in the morning we kicked of our Saturday bouncing and gliding to the energetic music from the amazingly fun and feisty Zumba class. Once ready the three of us rejuvenated, showered and all headed for a planned day at the Prudential centre!  http://www.prudentialcenter.com/ 

Sadly once we arrived at the tower to see a panoramic sky-high view of Boston, we were turned away by an emotionless sheet of white paper reading,

‘Closed, booked for Private Function’

And so we then decided to return another day as we had no choice and headed for the Cheesecake Factory even earlier! (no complaints)

It was what I was craving and more.  To my misconception, when I first heard of this amazing place I assumed it was a factory that made and sold cheesecake, however it is actually a restaurant selling grand foods along with specialising in cheesecake.  http://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/

The creamy cheesecakes were amazingly appetising, slightly to much to enjoy so we had to take doggy bags with us home. 

‘Shear madness’ was our next Saturday scheduled stop in the theatre district.  We continued the food theme on our way and made a stop into Sugary Heaven, marvelling at their selection of Americandy which was quite impressive.

We left surely having worked our abs from an outrageously funny show.  The theme of the act is shear madness indeed, and being able to interact and guess the killer throughout really gets you involved and one with the stage!  Thanks to the NU student affairs we got the tickets for free and attended the show as a large friendly pack of huskies.  On the way home we stopped in to watch some of the play in the Boston Common Park.

CHEARS at the Cheesecake Factory



My b-E-A-U-tiful slice of heaven.




My fabulous friends by the Reflecting Pool



In SUGAR Heaven.

SUGAR HEAVEN

The Charles Playhouse!

Shakespeare in the park.

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Its Friday, which can only mean one (free) thing in Boston at summer – its Free Friday Flicks!  Last night we watched Kung Fu Panda 2, which was very cartoon childish but fun! 

Beforehand I had the lovely pleasure of becoming a tour guide once again as another Scottish visitor was arriving to bonnie’Boston.  Daniel a work friend from my part-time occupation in Scotland was returning in the U.S this summer to volunteer for two weeks at his summer amp that he worked as a lifeguard the previous year.  Emphasis on his exhuasted’ness, kind Daniel arrived at my workplace after his lovely long haul flight with a suitcase pour moi!

I could not be any more thankful for him doing such a kind thing!  In appreciating for my suitcase and to welcome Daniel once again to Boston I and my roommates made Daniel a chicken stir-fry for dinner before heading out to the esplanade.

Tonight we didn’t make the mistake of arriving late and lost and arrived just after 7pm easily tracking down Anthony and his fortress of basking blankets and bags of candies!  We lay in the humid hot hazy Hatchshell watching the movie,  it was a nice evening, which ended sadly as we were saying goodbye to Anthony as he prepares to leave in two days to fly to Germany to complete his co-op until Christmas.  Although I've only known Anthony for a short time, as of anyone else here in America I couldn’t be more happier to have grown a friendship with such an intriguing interesting friendly character.  I wish him all the best on his working adventure and hope his experience in Germany will be as great as mine has been so far here in Boston, MA.

On a chirpier note as I type this up I’m enjoying some Cadburys chocolate which Daniel gave me.  It was smooth, silky and creamy! MMMMM how I love (Scottish) CHOCOLATE!

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This week my Scottish family grew one larger becoming now three.  Katie Masheter arrived with a broken bulky bag, droopy eyes, hazy tired head but still beaming her smile and chirpy personality.  Arriving at work, I contained my utter GLEE as much as possible hugging her like a sister, she’s here- IN BOSTON.

Becoming a tour guide for the 2^nd time, we met with the marvellous Molly after I finished work and headed to home, sweet home.  It’s quite surreal having now two close friends staying with me in the states.  I really don’t feel like I’m 3325 miles away from home as I have my happy homely housemates with me.

On Tuesday we wined (Irn Bru) and dined at the only Scottish themes restaurant in the whole of new England called The Haven JP.  Surprisingly and very luckily it so happened to be the night of a Scottish charity night, hosted by the ‘Saltire foundation’.  The Haven graciously squeezed the 8 of us into the event allowing the ‘3 Scottish and 5 Americans’ enjoy the evening of Scottish poetry and songs.  We even slyly won the Scottish quiz though we weren’t included in the draw as understandably we weren’t event members and being Scottish helped answer the questions!  We all dived into the scrumptious cuisine being that of Haggis, scotch eggs, fried mars bars and washed it down with the Scottish fizzy pop drink being IrnBRU!  Overall a proper pure dead brilliant wee night out, CHEARS!