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Sep. 4th, 2005 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13I must admit that I feel somewhat guilty writing about my trip when 1000s of people are dying. I have been following the news, and it does make me feel sick and disgusted. I plan to donate to some of the relief efforts when I get back home.
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Yesterday B* and I went to the Mary Baker Eddy Center for the Betterment of Humanity, mostly to visit the Maparium, which is a large globe. You stand on the inside of the globe and listen to a brief presentation of how the world looked in 1935, and the importance of ideas. We then turned the museum, which is a homage to Mary Baker Eddy, who founded Christian Science and the Christian Science Monitor. I didn't know anything about her before, but she was an interesting lady and helped develop the mind/body connection in medicine.
After this, we walked the freedom trail, which shows various monuments and areas of interest in America's history. I really liked the graveyards along the trail, and managed to add more knowledge to my meagre understanding of US history. After this, we went on a Boston Duck tour, which I really enjoyed. Lunch was Boston Clam Chowda (yum) and dinner was a seafood salad. I feel that I've been a good tourist.
I love learning about history by being in a location and Boston has been really great for that. I have noticed that people are not as polite as I am used to, and that people tend to yell a lot more.
Today is the day of the actual wedding. All of the high school gang (not my high school gang) has converged for the wedding, which is interesting. I have met both of the grooms, and the family of one of the grooms. The wedding today sounds like it will be both fun and tasteful. I'm looking forward to it.
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Yesterday B* and I went to the Mary Baker Eddy Center for the Betterment of Humanity, mostly to visit the Maparium, which is a large globe. You stand on the inside of the globe and listen to a brief presentation of how the world looked in 1935, and the importance of ideas. We then turned the museum, which is a homage to Mary Baker Eddy, who founded Christian Science and the Christian Science Monitor. I didn't know anything about her before, but she was an interesting lady and helped develop the mind/body connection in medicine.
After this, we walked the freedom trail, which shows various monuments and areas of interest in America's history. I really liked the graveyards along the trail, and managed to add more knowledge to my meagre understanding of US history. After this, we went on a Boston Duck tour, which I really enjoyed. Lunch was Boston Clam Chowda (yum) and dinner was a seafood salad. I feel that I've been a good tourist.
I love learning about history by being in a location and Boston has been really great for that. I have noticed that people are not as polite as I am used to, and that people tend to yell a lot more.
Today is the day of the actual wedding. All of the high school gang (not my high school gang) has converged for the wedding, which is interesting. I have met both of the grooms, and the family of one of the grooms. The wedding today sounds like it will be both fun and tasteful. I'm looking forward to it.
