No visit to Boston will be complete without visits to their famous universities. First, we dropped by Harvard University, just next to Harvard Square. In the campus, there is the statue of John Harvard. The statue is actually nicknamed "The Statue of Three Lies". For all the good nicknames in the world, they come out with such a nickname for a statue in one of the most famous university in the world, *weird*.
Why that nickname? On the statue, it was written "John Harvard, Founder, 1638". The truth is, John Harvard was a contributor, like a donator, not the founder. That’s the first lie. The second lie was that Harvard University was founded in 1636, not 1638. The third lie was the statue itself. It doesn’t depict the face of actual John Harvard, but some random student used as a model by the sculptor. There you go, three lies in one statue in the greatest university in the world, *haiz*
The campus itself looks much smaller than NTU, but maybe I haven’t explored much of the area.
However, they certainly have a very nice building for their library. And if you haven’t noticed from my outfit, it was very cold in the morning in Boston when I was there.
Next up was another famous university, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or usually referred simply as MIT.
They replaced all "U"s to "V"s so it’ll feel more Latin, and people will think they look smarter that way. This time, looking at the campus map, I am sure that MIT has a huge campus.
After visiting Harvard and MIT, we went to Trinity Church. Next to this church, they have a statue of a preacher by the name of Phillips Brooks.
The church building itself looks like any other church built in the 18th century, but what make it looks great is its reflection on buildings next to it.
Notice how nice the reflections of the church is on the all-glass building next to it. I believe churches should be like this, to reflect God’s love and shine on others around it.
We then proceeded to the downtown area where we saw more tall buildings around.
Our destination in downtown was none other than the famous Quincy Market.
In Quincy Market, you have to treat yourself to lobsters, clam chowders, and all kind of seafood on offer.
Don’t worry, their lobsters are not this BIG. Their fridge-magnet lobsters are so uniquely-Boston that we bought a dozen of them back.
That turned out to be the last place we visit in our 5 days 4 nights very-happening (at least for me) tour to Canada. From Quincy Market, we all head back to New York. Good for us, out of three drop-off points, our Flushing Queens was the first, so we had actually reached back New York by 4pm for a well-deserved rest (and laundry).
