So on Saturday, 28th September I woke up, ate breakfast and went to Tynksborough to catch the bus to Boston. Getting a ticket and the bus ride was a great experience. It is different than Macedonia. Here, in order to get a ticket you need to give somekind ID card (student or driver's licence or so), the busses are so more organized, comfortable and they have Wi-Fi! So after around 30 min I arrived at South Bus Station - Boston!
The city is amaizing! It is so beautiful! All the skyscrapers, beautiful buildings, organized roads, the under-ocean traffic tunnel... Ouhhhh it is unbelivable! So I met with the clouster coordinator (a volonteering AFS person who is in charge for a clouster-group of exchange students in a certain region), with the other exchange students and with an amaizing, funny AFS volonteer. We went to Rosie's place, a Boston sanctuary for poor and homeless women. We volonteered 3 hours there! We made and served the lunch. I did every possible thing/job to be done! I unloaded groceries, I did laundry, I was prepairing the lunch, I served, I washed dishes, everything!
You cannot imagine the feeling when the ladies were saying "Thank You!" for helping them by just giving them the one of the things that all people should have - food! I had so much fun and I was feeling full, happy, satisfied of me! Not only by volonteering you help people, you always have fun too, so if you ever have a chance do NOT miss it, you'll see what I was talking about :) ! After that we went to the 09 / 11 ( 11th September 2001 event when the 2 planes crashed to the twin towers in New York) monument near the Logan Airport (Boston's airport).
This is an important day for Boston and the region because the two planes took of from Boston and all the plane staff was from here... We did a very important activity there. All 8 students from all over the world got a part of a connected tangled rope and tried to untangle it.
After communication and colaboration between we untangle'd the rope. It is same with all other world's conflicts! In order to get over them and achieve peace we just need to communicate and colaborate between, so do your best! And because of this all the sponsored programs and AFS exist! To connect people and to bring peace!
After this, we went to the Scicuate Lighthouse located in Scicuate :D . It was so darn beautiful! The ocean with it's unlimited beauty and unlimited horisont and just next to the ocean the lighthouse!
The lighthouse was built in 1810 with a purpose to lead all the ships, but it wasnt working for all of this 203 years. From period to period of time was broken but what is important now it works! We met amaizing people there! The lighthouse keeper and his daughter, very friendly people!
After that we went to our cluster coordinator's house to overnight. We had some meetings/orientations there, we (practised) presented our countries, we played games and then we went to bed.
The next morning, Sunday 29th September we went to Plymoth, the place where one of the first groups of people - the Pilgrams settled North America. In Plymoth we went to the historical living museum - Plimoth Plantation. It was so amaizing! At one part you have real Native Americans (or Indians) living as they lived in their time and doing all of their chores! And on the other part there were the English people - The Pilgrams who also were living as the actual settlers lived. I was seeing the history with my own eyes! The people that worked were so amaizing actors! They were totaly acting as a Native American/Settler, I couldn't see any difference between what I've knew/studied and what I was seeing! Amaizing!
After the Plimoth plantation we went to the "Mayflower" the original ship with who the settlers came from England to Plymoth. The ship was so beautiful. And again it was left totaly the same as when it came for the first time there and there were actors - settlers in the sheep aswell!
After this historical museums we ate lunch next to the ocean, went some souvenir shopping and then returned to Boston. From Boston I took the bus to my home and after around half hour I was home! It was so fun and exciting weekend! Thanks to the AFS volonteers who organized this!
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