Public Transportation… Oh boy… Monday night Keith (my roommate) got a phone call from a friend asking if we wanted to go to the Museum of Science in Boston, students got in free. So we checked the schedule, and headed down to the train station for our first ride on the MBTA; lovingly known as the “T”. We walked down the street and over to the platform, found a bench and waited… Then the train came… and went… We were at the wrong station… We deftly sprinted from one end of the street to the other, arriving at the train just in time to jump on, winded, but victorious! On our way we went on our first social event in Boston.

Tuesday night we decided to go visit a friend in the city so we hit the train, this time in the right place, and then the subway. We checked the map, we needed a D train, so we sat and watched four trains pass by… the C train, the E train, the C, another C, and then we were lucky enough to be informed by a station-worker that to take the D train we should take any train to Government Center Station and then transfer from there, so we hopped the next train, an E train I might add, and off we went. Upon our arrival in the station we caught a bench and waited for the next D train. We walked up to the doors and… hey wait a minute… Oh no! They opened for just a quick moment, enough for Keith to jump in.. Oh shit! What now? I looked around, pulled the doors open, and jumped on myself… I was not waiting around for another D train!

We spent a few hours there just chatting, eating cookies, and getting to know each other better, and then we said our goodbyes and departed for home… We caught a subway train to the our transfer station, then waited.. and waited.. and waited.. for a subway train to take us to North Station, where we needed to get on the rail train. The funny part of this portion of the trip is that we actually HELPED someone who was lost.. It was more of a common-senseless person than an I-Don’t-Know-The-Area person… But we finally got on the subway train headed where we needed to go and got to the rail station.. We walked in to look up at the board.. only to realize that the soonest departure to Waltham wasn’t until… 8am… So we took some time to debate and decide on an action plan and just took the subway back to Boston and spent the night at our friends house.

The rest of the night was pretty hilariously awkward. Rachel and Vivian (Our friends we were visiting) taught Keith and I how to play a rather funny card-based game known as “Apples to Apples”. If you know what that is you’ll know how funny it can be, if you don’t… Be sure to find out!

Public Transportation… Oh boy…