After more than a month or so of being on campus, I finally decided it would be nice to drop in on the family and see how they were doing. My parents recently moved from shoreline Connecticut to Massachusetts to start new jobs in Boston. I was born in Boston, so it was interesting to ‘rediscover’ the city after being apart from it for so many years (we moved to CT when I was a toddler!). My family is currently based in a suburb just outside of Boston called Brookline, where my younger brother Jonathan is going to school. The drive only took me about an hour and a half from campus (I got pretty lucky with city traffic).
(Side note: Now, because I’m currently a junior, I have the luxury of having a place to keep my car on campus and thus can drive to visit my family whenever I can (which isn’t very often, considering there’s been so much to do here since the start of the semester!). However, if you’re wondering about other traveling options, there are always Peter Pan buses leaving from the middle of campus everyday that’ll take you to cities like Boston, New York and Philadelphia. Hartford’s only half an hour away from campus too, and from there you can take the train or fly out from Bradley Airport. It’s pretty easy to find travel routes and options once you get to UConn.)
Beautiful Brookline in the afternoon...
Here I am with Jonathan by a pond at the Boston Commons…
My family and I ate brunch at a dim sum restaurant in Boston on Saturday morning. For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, dim sum are bite-size ‘finger foods’ generally eaten for brunch in China. For example, you would find various small steamed buns and dumplings served, as well as other delicacies like steamed rice & pork wrapped in bamboo leaves (known as zong zi). At a dim sum restaurant, waiters push around carts full of steaming-hot dim sum to display to the customers sitting at their tables. You simply look into the cart, select whatever you like, and share all the dim sum together with family and friends. The restaurant we went to was HUGE–and for that reason, a huge tour group of Chinese people came to eat brunch there. I loved how they were all dressed in the same exact red outfits.
Overall, it was a pretty awesome weekend in the city with my family. I only hope I can find time to visit them again later this semester!
