My internship is crazzzzyyyy busy. So crazy that it needed several extra consonants to show just how crazy. I edit the websites, upload content, research things, edit other things, rewrite manuals, help facilitate training sessions... it's so much! But's I've learned a TON.
Aside from that, I haven't done much aside from family parties or meeting with friends for coffee/tennis/ kayaking/ swimming on the weekends.
But I will be heading down to Pennsylvania/ Philadelphia for a few days this week/weekend to visit one of my best friends!
Time to get down to business:
Here are some of the foods I've eaten!
Italian Leeks and Cabbage and a Thai Salad made with portebello mushrooms, baby arugala, avacados, and an amazing dressing.
...made by my dad!
My Polish friend made these deliciously soft cupcakes for her birthday. SO GOOD!
This is the cake for Derek's 21st birthday party!!"Death by Chocolate"...... that's an understatement of a title!
So the news has been talking about how Worcester's crime rate has sky-rocketed this year and most of it is youth.... but it's not all bad!
Here are some cool places around Worcester!
If you've never heard of Disc Golf... YOU NEED TO!!!
Higgins Armory in Worcester is the largest collection of renaissance armor and weaponry on the East Coast. There are always cool new exhibits. ...though I haven't been there since a school field trip (elementary/ middle/ and high school were all literally a walk away).
Okay, so this is obviously not Worcester, but it's this great place on Cape Ann.
Apparently, there are large paper spills in Worcester. Nonetheless, the building in the background is the Education Association of Worcester where all of the teachers of the 10 high schools, several middle schools, and countless elementary schools can join. It's the largest local of the Mass Teacher's Assoc.
Part of the downtown... what I guess you could call a "skyline". It's hard to take pics driving! Anyways, as part of the Downtown Worcester Revival (they've been trying to clean it up and get the bad areas less sketchy), the glass building now has a large dome that changes different colors at night.On the right is the side of St. Vincent's Hospital, the new location. The train actually goes right through it! It's the only non-UMass-associated hospital in the city (there are 4 hospitals). Funny thing is, they didn't build a kitchen, so all the meals are prepared a couple miles away at the old hospital which now only serves as a kitchen and a psych ward! (this does not count as one of the aforementioned hospitals)
Here's part of Indian Lake which is in my neighborhood. It was really nice, then really not nice with a couple stabbings and jet-ski accidents, but since then, the cops and environmental police have really helped clean it up. Unfortunately, a lot of the people go to a beach on the other side by the highway and don't pick up their trash, but hopefully that'll soon end, too! Indian Lake gets mostly drained at the end of fall so it can be used for snow mobiles.
This is just funny! Haha, but this is at Bancroft School, the only private (and wicked expensive) college-preparatory school in Central Mass. Basically, it's a very ritzy K-12 school, but they have an amazing teaching style and programs for the kids.
My friends and I are too poor to go there, but not too poor to play tennis in their very-well-kept courts!
Had to use an online photo for this one. Seeing as that was Bancroft School, here's Bancroft Tower. It was built as a memorial. It has a beautiful view of the city, from atop Bancroft Hill, but the stairs up the tower have been closed for years due to drugs, people committing suicide, and other not-so-appealing activities. Nonetheless, it's cool!
(another I had to find online) So yes, this is a painting, but it's pretty legit as to how it looks now.. add in a couple streets around it and blue light-up stars on the building and you have the Worcester Art Museum. It's always had really awesome works from every era, including ancient egyptian as well as an old Roman mosaic that takes up a whole floor! It is an awesome place to go and they always have great activities for all ages.
And ONE MORE haha, and I'll have to use a web-pic for this, because I haven't been here in ages:
The Ecotarium is like the Boston Science Museum, but not as epic. This place is AWESOME. They have a polar bear, TONS of animals, a HUGE learning center, a 50-foot-up canopy walk (WICKED FUN!!), and a planetarium... which is probably the coolest thing ever. It's located in a very obscure area and is hard to find, but is definitely worth it!
