Last weekend was Tibetan New Year, my second one away from home. Today, I want to talk about how I’ve celebrated this tradition at college and what celebrating traditions away from home is like at Wellesley. I am super fortunate to know other Tibetan students here at Wellesley and have a small community with them. To celebrate the new year,…
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City Weekend: My love for Allston and Cambridge
On our way to the city!
I love Allston and Cambridge for the usual bohemian reasons- great multicultural food, cozy cafes to study in, energetic college students, and record stores/music venues to catch a good (and affordable!) show. In the past weeks I helped my friend Natalia to set up the Wellesley Rummage Sale that the Office of Sustainability puts on every year. This year I got a rug, lanterns, a yoga mat, curtains, and a picture frame all under $10! But besides that, I have two jobs this semester and am taking an extra writing course for half credit just to brush up on my writing skills before I graduate. It’s lovely working as an assistant to the Director of the Slater International Center for International students, the Slater house being next to the lake and all. And my second job, babysitting for a nice family in West Natick, gets me on the train twice a week and off campus. But when all is accomplished and the weekend rolls around, my heart sets out to my two favorite nearby cities. This time I eagerly got on the Peter Pan bus (which is free on Fridays before 6) with my friend Natalia and we chatted about all the things we were going to do when we arrived to Cambridge. But I guess we were a bit more eager than our bodies would allow us to be because we snoozed off unknowingly and received this photo from our friend across the aisle! Cambridge ended up being really fun, where we went to our favorite record store, Weirdo Records, to listen to some albums and then to visit our friend who waitresses at Algiers, an arabic restaurant with delicious pastries.
The next day, I visited my cousin who is a B.U. student in Allston, and we went to a Mediterranean cafe. I had a delicious felafel wrap and read a bit for my Writing 126 class. It was back on the bus from there, and to the start of another busy week…