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Oh my god I could just Die.
First off, Boston is amazing. The college I'm looking at is scattered around the very heart of Boston and I just frothed walking around the neighborhood ohmygod. The rest of it is amazing, too, especially the older parts I just gdskjlg. God I just love. This is like the mecca for American history majors I'm dying.
On the other hand, though, my mother, who has been to I swear to god every major city in the nation and greater western europe in her entire lifetime seems to insist on acting like an ignorant tourist everywhere and I just want to die. I swear the woman can't even pretend to have street smarts for once in her life oh my god. She is so lucky she moved to Salt Lake because I swear anywhere else she would've been like mugged or something because she's under this impression it's ok to walk around at night as long as you stay in well lit areas and look like you're fine on your own I'm like mom it's fucking Boston ok this isn't Salt Lake City you don't take that risk.
Really though she walks around with her map out just staring everywhere when there are signs and other maps around to just glance at and find where you need to go. As we were in a cab we drove down some street idk I forgot the name but it's like the big street with all the shopping centers and stuff and I saw H&M and was like k we're so going in there. So later I guess my mom forgot or something because I was like k let's go and she was like I don't know I've never heard of H&M I think you got the name wrong. I just stared at her like
really mom, are you serious. I'm a 19-year-old female, I think I have the name of a major shopping place right.
But she insists on asking our cab driver if he's heard of it and the guy just looks at her and is like ...really? So I was like dude just tell us the street it's ok.
My mom seems to think I don't know what I'm doing but I'm like ok mom I've navigated and spent tons of time in London and Paris on my own and have been through Chicago, San Fran, Minneapolis, and L.A. on my own I think I can navigate through a major metropolitan city.
God I could just
*smashes face in*
She also has to have that gay little fanny pack thing and dress like a tourist too I'm surprised she's not wearing hawaiian print tshirts.
BUT I do enjoy Boston. A lot. So it's tolerable.
Oh and this city has some really cute guys m.
My mom also said a comment last night that kinda upset me after we watched Milk. Like ok she's not some conservative crazy but she's still kind of naive to a lot of things going on in the world. So she's like cool with the political movement of equal rights for gay people and stuff but she said she can't "Understand why people choose to be gay. It seems like it'd be kind of gross." I just stared at her and was like mom you're born with your own sexuality and it's not gross it's human sexuality I just. She just seemed really disapproving about it all.
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Oh also because I think that the gay rights movement is awesome and want to help and have such strong feelings about people having equal rights I'm pretty sure my mom things I'm gay.
But that's ok because now I can ask to take Val to my debutante ball and just say respect who I am ok. :|
LMAO oh god I'd be disowned by some of my family.
ALSO EVERYONE IS CELEBRATING ASH WEDNESDAY HERE. Everyone has ash on their foreheads i'm like ok this is kinda creepy but pretty cool.
First off, Boston is amazing. The college I'm looking at is scattered around the very heart of Boston and I just frothed walking around the neighborhood ohmygod. The rest of it is amazing, too, especially the older parts I just gdskjlg. God I just love. This is like the mecca for American history majors I'm dying.
On the other hand, though, my mother, who has been to I swear to god every major city in the nation and greater western europe in her entire lifetime seems to insist on acting like an ignorant tourist everywhere and I just want to die. I swear the woman can't even pretend to have street smarts for once in her life oh my god. She is so lucky she moved to Salt Lake because I swear anywhere else she would've been like mugged or something because she's under this impression it's ok to walk around at night as long as you stay in well lit areas and look like you're fine on your own I'm like mom it's fucking Boston ok this isn't Salt Lake City you don't take that risk.
Really though she walks around with her map out just staring everywhere when there are signs and other maps around to just glance at and find where you need to go. As we were in a cab we drove down some street idk I forgot the name but it's like the big street with all the shopping centers and stuff and I saw H&M and was like k we're so going in there. So later I guess my mom forgot or something because I was like k let's go and she was like I don't know I've never heard of H&M I think you got the name wrong. I just stared at her like
really mom, are you serious. I'm a 19-year-old female, I think I have the name of a major shopping place right.
But she insists on asking our cab driver if he's heard of it and the guy just looks at her and is like ...really? So I was like dude just tell us the street it's ok.
My mom seems to think I don't know what I'm doing but I'm like ok mom I've navigated and spent tons of time in London and Paris on my own and have been through Chicago, San Fran, Minneapolis, and L.A. on my own I think I can navigate through a major metropolitan city.
God I could just
*smashes face in*
She also has to have that gay little fanny pack thing and dress like a tourist too I'm surprised she's not wearing hawaiian print tshirts.
BUT I do enjoy Boston. A lot. So it's tolerable.
Oh and this city has some really cute guys m.
My mom also said a comment last night that kinda upset me after we watched Milk. Like ok she's not some conservative crazy but she's still kind of naive to a lot of things going on in the world. So she's like cool with the political movement of equal rights for gay people and stuff but she said she can't "Understand why people choose to be gay. It seems like it'd be kind of gross." I just stared at her and was like mom you're born with your own sexuality and it's not gross it's human sexuality I just. She just seemed really disapproving about it all.
:
Oh also because I think that the gay rights movement is awesome and want to help and have such strong feelings about people having equal rights I'm pretty sure my mom things I'm gay.
But that's ok because now I can ask to take Val to my debutante ball and just say respect who I am ok. :|
LMAO oh god I'd be disowned by some of my family.
ALSO EVERYONE IS CELEBRATING ASH WEDNESDAY HERE. Everyone has ash on their foreheads i'm like ok this is kinda creepy but pretty cool.