First week in Cambridge

So one week has passed since my arrival here in Cambridge. It went really really super awesome. So lets see, we started on the first day with Charlie tour, which is basically a 90 min city tour around Cambridge and Boston. This was very very cool for me, because it was so different than Singapore. A completely new sight. Massachusetts is one of the oldest state in the United States and it was first founded by the British. Hence many of the buildings and streets were really really old and AWESOME! I love something with deep historical value.

So anyway, first day of work started. And it was pretty good actually. I love the working environment - each of the teams are given one room to themselves and each of us have one workstation to ourselves. Pretty cool. I enjoy working with my teammates. They're an awesome bunch of people. I learn so much from them. The first few days were brainstorming days, so we had to brainstorm on a variety of ideas for the actual game that we were going to make. For lunch, most of the time I bought Mexican food (burrittos) from food trucks. This was pretty cheap food. I guess I could do with that. Mexican food is really awesome. That's one thing I love about being here - there's not a problem at all for vegetarians. Be it Indian food, or Italian food, or fast food, or food courts, or simply sandwiches, I as a vegetarian has more than enough to eat, not just to survice through meals, but to eat properly as a form of luxury.

The weather here is pretty unpredictable. One moment, its nice and pleasant, the next moment, cold wind blows and it gets really really chilly. So what I do is carry a sweater with me all the time. Saves me in such troublesome times. But seriously, I like the weather here. True, sometimes it gets really cold when it rains. But I can live with that. I like this weather. I'm enjoying myself here. Awesome.

Mostly after work, we would all go out in a group and explore Boston area. It gets pretty fun, but sometimes I get tired so I don't really enjoy. A few times, some of them went shopping, but I returned to the dorm to rest. Guess I hadn't really gotten over my jetleg yet. Two days ago, on Friday, I went to visit my childhood friend and stayed over at his place. He stayed about an hour from where I lived so I took the subway down to the South Station, which is Boston's biggest station, and then I met my friend there. We took the commuter rail, which is different from the subway, and got of at the respective stop, after which my friend drove me from there. He lived in the suburbs, which is really awesome. It was so peaceful and quiet. I enjoyed my time there. There, I got to eat home-made food after like a week. The next day, which was a Saturday, I left for MIT dorm after breakfast. This time, I came back myself on the trains. And by doing this, I learnt a lot about getting myself around in Boston by train.

So on that day itself (Saturday), GAMBIT had organised a movie outing for us (Pixar's UP) so I went to watch that. It was an awesome movie - (DUH! It's Pixar!). Pixar movies never fail to put a smile on my face. I enjoyed myself. After that, we went to explore Chinatown, which was basically nothing much actually.

This morning, I met my sister's sister-in-law. And she took me to have lunch and then we went to watch a sterescopic 3D movie at the IMAX theatre. Then, she took me around Harvard square and we had good dinner there. I had a lot of fun today - basically the most fun in my one week here. I felt at home, being with a relative. I really appreciate the fact that my sister's sister-in-law took the time to bring me out the whole day and show me around.

So basically that's it. I need to wash my clothes, but apparently I procrastinated it. Hopefully I do it tomorrow. Bye for now.