Amazing! That\u2019s the only word I can think of to describe my first Spring Break. I tend to love all breaks (lots of sleep, no homework, lazing about- what\u2019s not to love), but this one was particularly enjoyable. The timing was also perfect, coming after a week of midterms. I took the opportunity to explore Boston during the first weekend by taking the \u2018Freedom Trail\u2019 which is a 2.5 mile trail through Boston that leads you to 16 important historical sites. This in many ways felt like a crash course in American history and left me feeling I knew Boston much better. I also visited China Town and had dim-sum. Ah, the joys of having a huge city a few minutes from Campus.<\/p>\n
The next week my friend and I were in San Francisco. What a city! We went everywhere from Alcatraz where we saw Al Capone\u2019s cell room, to Coit Tower which has a most beautiful collection of murals, to Haight-Ashbury which was a center of the hippie culture in the 1960s. Our hosts were phenomenal- they drove us around and showed us all of San Francisco\u2019s hidden treasures. Oh, we also met up with a Harvard alum who took us out to dinner and showed us a grand time. See, that\u2019s something I quite enjoy about Harvard, knowing that wherever in the world you go you\u2019ll probably find people who went here, but I digress. The greater point is that San Francisco was amazing!<\/p>\n
A note on being international, I thought San Francisco is supposed to be scorching all year long. In fact I was worried I hadn\u2019t carried enough shorts and sandals. Turns out none were necessary- evidently it\u2019s never really hot in San Francisco and it ended up raining for two days. I had fun nonetheless- I wasn\u2019t about to make enjoying my spring break contingent on nature. Lesson: weather forecasts are there for a reason.<\/p>\n
My biggest lesson from break was that all countries including Kenya need spring break (spring or no spring). We might also want to consider throwing in a break in autumn to compensate for all the years we\u2019ve missed spring break (just saying).<\/p>\n
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