September 23, 2008

We spent our first night in Boston and woke up fairly early. We all woke up and took some very cold showers, and they provided us breakfast downstairs. We took the bus to go on our first and more interesting tour. It was a tour of Fenway Park, and what made it interesting was the tour guide. He was a hardcore Boston fan and he was on something that's not good for him....or he's just crazy. Fenway Park was pretty much what you would expect from any ball park, except what made it highlighting was that it was the oldest park. The tour guide of Fenway Park made the tour interesting through yelling and bad puns. We eventually took a drive around the Freedom Trail and Steve, the Tour guide, pointed out various important landmarks such as the Boston Common. We even went to a Church, which consisted of tiny boxes that seclude families from each other so that families could connect. The best part, before the church, was Mike's Pastries which had the widest assortment of delicious sweets. We were recommended the chocolate conollies and I didn't hesitate to get one.

We went to the Quincy market and grabbed some pizza. Soon afterwards, we visited Boston College, which didn't really appeal to me. The three things that made me not so interested in B.C. was that the school was religiously dominated by Christianity and seemed to be on the right wing of politics. Also, though I wasn't bugged by it, the college itself has its' own police force....which is kind of absurd. It all seems very tense, but at least it gives us a brief image of college and their tours. We eventually took a quick look at this naval ship, and went on a cruise ship. It was the best part because we got a nice dinner and it was a time to socialize with everyone else. Next time, we are going to take a tour of Boston University and Harvard University.