I'm excited to write this fifth blog for you. I got some requests for pictures in my blog, so I've collected a bunch of 'm. By the way, I was planning to write a blog every Sunday, but sometimes that doesn't work out (especially when you're playing 14 innings of baseball on a Sunday). Nevertheless, five blogs in my first month here at Wentworth; you don't need Applied Math to figure out that my "blog-schedule" of a blog per week is going pretty well ;)
I'm having a great time here in Boston, enjoying baseball, study, the city and the extraordinary weather. Yesterday we played two games of 7 innings against Stonehill College, and I got sun burned (on September 28th! (in Boston!!)). It was 30 degrees Celcius (86 Fahrenheit) this weekend. I've been told that it is going to be extremely cold here.
The games yesterday went pretty well. I played the second game, in right field. Made two nice catches and hit three hard balls. One of them turned out to be a hit. I also pitched the 6th inning, allowing no runs. My fellow teammates asked: "What kind of Dutch ball were you throwing out there?" I said: "Oh, that was just my 2-seam fastball, it was moving today."
So, now I will give a summary of my time here at Wentworth by the use of a couple pictures I took.
First of all, does anybody know what this traffic sign means? It was one of the first signs my mom and me saw when we came here. She explained to me what it meant, because she had seen it before in San Diego.
If you want to know what it means, send me a message :)
This is the beautiful entrance of Wentworth Institute of Technology (building Wentworth Hall). I have my Computer Science classes in there.
All the famous Red Sox players (plus Jackie Robinson) on flags at Fenway Park!
This is a Boston Duck Tour vehicle riding in front of the Massachusetts State House. A couple days later we took a Duck Tour with all the new international students. It's an amphibian vehicle, which means that it can also go on the water! A few students (include me) got to steer the vehicle when we were on the river Charles.
This is the home of two other major American sports. I've been told that the Bruins (ice hockey) and the Celtics (basketball) play in this stadium called "TD Garden." I'm definitely going in there once!
The library of Wentworth. It is a nice place to study, although it can be a bit noisy when it's busy. The chairs are a lot more comfortable than the ones in our dorm rooms.
Needless to say, we are hoping to add a Baseball Championship title to this beautiful closet.
Applied Mathematics introduction; we had about 10 minutes to get a marshmallow as high as possible, by using 20 spaghetti strings and tape that barely sticks.
The nice and high Tree House Building on our campus. If you're ever lost in Boston, try to find the big orange building and you can walk home.
I wanted to get those weird American tables on a picture. You know, the one where the seat is attached to your desk. I thought that was only a American high school thing. I'll have to get used to it.
Go Leopards!
The beautiful Quad in the center of our campus. Almost every day there are some people playing catch or throwing a frisbee (which I of course participate in once in a while).
People playing Quidditch in the Boston Common. It is the oldest park of America (the sheep of the colonists used to graze here).
(A part of) the Boston Public Library.
Proud to wear my Wentworth Baseball cap!
There are a lot of colleges in Boston, but very few of them have football teams. So we all cheer for the Boston College Eagles. The athletics of other colleges get to work at football games, selling mostly hot dogs and water, to earn some extra money. Our salary goes to our baseball team, so we can go to a Training Camp in Florida in the Spring Break (when it's probably still snowing here).
Unfortunately, we don't have our own baseball field on campus, so we have to take vans or a bus to practice.
A night walk through Boston with three of my suite / room mates.
My side of room 003C.
We had a team run through Boston. And of course you have to run through that big fountain when it's hot.
Watching the Red Sox - Rays game from the Green Monster! I initially had a ticket for the grand stand seats in deep right field. After a couple innings, I went to go get a snack. Then I just walked over to take a look from the Monster, and a nice Canadian guy said: "Take a seat, nobody's sitting here." So I was able to watch a few innings from this historical place.
Watching the game with my friends from the grand stand in right field.
Towards the end of the game we went down to the backstop and got to see Xander Bogaerts really close! He is a Dutch third baseman / shortstop of the Red Sox (he's initially from Aruba).
These pictures sum up my first month pretty well! I hope you enjoyed them, and see you next week (or two).
All the best,
Bram
