Month: February 2015

Snow

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1. Meteorology. a precipitation in the form of ice crystals, mainly of intricately branched, hexagonal form and often agglomerated into snowflakes, formed directly from the freezing of the water vapor in the air.  Compare ice crystals, snow grains, snow pellets.
2. these flakes as forming a layer on the ground or other surface.
3. the fall of these flakes or a storm during which these flakes fall.
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From Jan 27 through Feb 23, 99.9 inches of snow has fallen in Boston (2.5 meters).  According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration, this has “shattered” the 5- 10- 20- 30- and 40-day snow records.  Harvard, which historically has never shut down has been closed 3 days already this semester — when public transportation shuts down and the state prohibits all but emergency vehicles from being on the roads, not much you can do but stay in and watch it fall outside!
Weather.com says it will start again around 1am tomorrow morning… because we need more!
Out my front door…
Up my street…
Up my street the other way…
After the first storm (or maybe the second)
During the fourth? or fifth? or sixth? storm
Frontloaders out and about all night and early mornings – shoveling snow into dumptrucks that take it to get melted or dump it in the Bay
A balmy evening walk home (1)
A balmy evening walk home (2)
A balmy evening walk home (3)

Some photos from friends below — and a perspective from the Harvard Graduate School of Education here 😉

Yo extraño DF!

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As I sit here this evening watching the Boston temperatures plummet down through the single digits headed for a low of -5 or -10 Farenheit (-20 to -23 Celsius), I find my thoughts floating back to January in sunny Mexico….

I started browsing through the pics of some of our adventures there and started feeling warmer already.  Even those who know no Spanish could probably figure out that the title of the post means “I miss Mexico City!”.  DF is short for distrito federal (federal district), which is how most people refer to Mexico City when you are there.  Pretty much like we refer to Washington as “DC”.

For those of you in cold places tonight, I hope these warm you up a bit as well.  And for those of you in Mexico — espero verte pronto!

Castillo Chapultepec – our first evening in DF, the whole gang of interns went to Chapultepec Castle at sunset for a performance by Ballet Folklórico de México.  Incredible place, incredible views of Mexico City, incredible performances!

Ballet Folklórico de México

Teotihuacan – on one of our weekends, a few of us headed to Teotihuacan to climb the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon.  More amazing views… and a bit of exercise!

Xochimilco – our next excursion was to Xochimilco, which some people described as the canals of Mexico City, sort of like Venice….  But seriously — a sunny afternoon, a group of good friends, a bucket of beers, brightly painted boats with fun “gondoliers” and mariachi boats floating by playing music — it was a floating party!  Lovely, relaxing afternoon 🙂

Museums – It wasn’t time to eat again… yet! (see below for a very small assortment of our culinary adventures).  So we headed to check out some modern art at Museo Jumex and Museo Soumaya back in DF.  Mexico City is huge, with dozens of neighborhoods, all with different architecture – some traditional, some grand, some quaint, some hip, some imposing, and some just fun!  Soumaya was one of my favorites.

Vamos a comer! – I knew my foodie friends wouldn’t forgive me if I didn’t take a few shots of the cuisine along the way.  Unfortunately, I was enjoying drinking and eating way too much and mostly forgot to take pictures(!), but here are a few.

¡Abrazos!