debbie
Whatchu looking at yah Hockey Puck!?!
November 20, 2005
Oh man. What a busy weekend it’s been!
I was afraid that I would be stuck inside all weekend working on a paper for my China History class - but fortunately I was able to balance it out with some fun AND got the paper done. Not bad. :o) Sarah went to a NACA conference, which is the regional conference for Campus Activity Board’s. So I have been roommate-less for the weekend. It worked out good because I was able to work on my paper and not feel bad for being anti-social. ^_^
Friday was a lot of fun, I was invited by Natalie to go to her friend’s first college hockey game. Rob, plays for UMASS Boston and they were going to play against Bowdoin. I have never been to a hockey game before, so I thought ‘why not?’ I invited my friend Anna from my Critical Interpretation class to come along [we had planned to go out for coffee that night anyways]. Emily and Nicole joined us, and we were on our way to Dorchester to watch the game. The ride over was pretty uneventful, although we had a pretty meaningful conversation about the mice at the Park Street red line platform.
Anyways. Every picture tells a story…
Anna at the Fenway stop…waiting for the T.
Natalie all bundled up.
Nicole and Emily on the train.
At the Hockey Game. The players in blue are UMASS, and the one’s in white are Bowdoin.
27 is Rob. Go rob!!! Yay!!!!
Here’s another shot of him.
I decided I wanted to get this to help me get across the Emmanuel campus in the winter time.
The game was a lot of fun. A lot of people were thrown into the walls, sliding across ice and just generally wrecking their bodies. At one point, some player hit the puck so hard at the right angle, that it came flying up into the stands and missed Anna by a foot. I ran over and grabbed it. My first hockey game and I get a souvenir!!!
Unfortunately for UMASS, and Rob, Bowdoin won - 7 to 0. I still think he played a good game. We were all happy for him. After the game, we headed back to his apartment where we had some pizza and watched South Park. It was interesting to see the contrast between girl’s rooms and boy’s rooms. I almost forgotten what boys my age are like, being surrounded by girls all the time - and then dating a guy who is older. I tell you what, it made me appreciate Chris a whole lot more. I had forgotten how immature some boys are when they are trying to get a girls attention.
Hah hah. It was funny. This one guy was falling all OVER himself to get Emily’s attention. He even pulled Natalie aside to ask her if she would help hook him up. Fortunately we were back at the JFK/UMASS T-stop before she told us about that, because we all burst out laughing. He was sweet, if just a little unrefined. I can imagine Chris being like him when he was that age. It was good times.
We got to the red line T-stop so late that we were worried we missed the last inbound train. Fortunately we didn’t, and were able to make it back to Park Street to catch the VERY LAST train of the evening/morning. The funny thing was, is we ran into a group of girls that also go to Simmons, one of them being Amy who lives across from me.
Here’s Amy!!!
We had to wait on the car for about 5-10 minutes because it was waiting for all the other lines to pull into the station so no one would miss the green line.
Anna and me waiting for the train to go.
So then yesterday, I worked on my paper all day. I was able to get it done - holy cow! three days before it’s due! That’s a first for me. I am going to take a break from it today, work on my other homework for a bit, and then edit it tomorrow. I always need to take a break from a paper so I can look at it with a fresh, new perspective. But last night, I got a visit from an old friend, Ariel came up to visit me for a couple of minutes. It was nice to be able to talk and re-connect with her.
After she left, I bugged the ladies next door. By that point it was midnight. Priscilla had the idea of going over the StarMarket to grab a couple of things. I wasn’t even sure if they were open - but apparently they are 24 hours. Good to know when you have a late-night craving for ho-ho’s. So we dragged Saira with us, strength in numbers sort of thing. It was funny shopping in a grocery store after midnight. You can’t tell that I am from the boonies…
We came back, Priscilla and I had some fish that we bought and listened to Maria read a conversation that she had with a guy she likes. It was just like a slumber party, laughing, giggling about boys and what not. It was about 2:30 before Rahala and Maria put in an Indian movie [I think it was “Dude, where’s my desi?”] which meant that we would be in for the long haul. Indian movie usually lasts 3 hours. I left after about 3:30, but it took me about an hour to fall asleep.
And so that brings me to today! I am going to go downtown and hang out in Chinatown for a bit. That should be a lot of fun.
~Debbie
Posted by debbie13 at November 20, 2005 11:48 AM