Hello! Yesterday was my last day of college classes ever!! Holy. So sentimental. 🙁 I really liked all my classes this semester, so I am actually sincerely sad that they are over. And that I will also never be an undergraduate student again, never take an undergraduate class again… >.<
In my sentimentality, I took pictures with all my professors today (except Professor Liu, with whom I took a picture last week!).
My Behavioral Economics professor, Olga: (on the right is my friend Lotus, who’s also in this class!)
My Translation and the Multilingual World class: (we are so cute and so much fun!)
My Development Economics professor, Kartini:
My Chinese Cinema professor, Mingwei Song:
Oh and last Friday I went to an open mic at East Meets West bookstore! Except it’s less of a bookstore and more of just a community space. And also a lot of the people who run it live upstairs (it’s 3 stories total) haha. And they have open mics, like the one I went to on Friday, but also gallery showings, and other events I think. Kind of started as a space for Asian Americans but expanded to just be a space for marginalized voices to be heard in general.
Pics from East Meets Word’s monthly open mic:
Their community space also doubles as a gallery:
The feature speakers (slam poets?) for the evening! Jess X. Snow and Kit Yan:
The in-house band!
And then I went to the Elm Bank Tree Festival at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society with my adopted grandparents, Jean and Richard! The first two pictures are from a toy train/tiny village exhibit they had adjacent to the trees, too:
(if you look closely, you can see this one is of London! There’s the London Bridge (or is it Tower Bridge?) and Big Ben, and Birmingham Palace, etc.)
A room full of (blurry) pretty trees! 😀
And a horse-drawn carriage!
Jean, Richard, and myself!
A “Christmas tree” of succulent plants!
And then just some miscellaneous other pictures from this week 🙂
SCoop dinner!
It snowed again yesterday!
Oh HA here are some terrible Chinese ink brush paintings I did in my Chinese painting class. (It’s an art history class and not a painting class, for the record!)
Even worse bamboo…
Oh and a lovely piano cushion in one of the music rooms I was practicing in this past week! Ha, stumbled upon this (don’t think I’ve used this room before). I love being able to practice piano whenever I want on campus 🙂
Aaaaand that will be it for this week! I’ll write another post next week…and then that will be the end of my time here as a blogger! Wow, really can’t believe it’s gone by so fast.
It’s been a good time though 🙂
Until next week,
~Em