This weekend was fantastic! There was tons going on and wonderful adventures that were had.
On Saturday my friends and I went down to Ben Franklin Parkway near the Philadelphia Museum of Art to attend College Day. College Day is basically where businesses and people give college kids free stuff and all of the museums in the area are open for free to students.
Before we arrived at the event we literally ran into a colorful floats and hundreds of Indians throughout the streets! It was incredible. A man explained to us that this was the Festival of Chariots which is an Indian festival that takes place in cities all across the world.
They had huge floats like above which housed their god (I think) and between the floats people were dancing and chanting, it was beautiful! Even children were in the parade, they built smaller versions of the floats and pulled them with jump ropes.
There were also stands all set up in this park that sold Indian saris and scarves, there was a psychic and a lady who did eyebrow threading which my friend, Lily got done. There was also a huge feast (which I wish we would have attended) which was all vegetarian and vegan food (Hindus are generally vegetarians). Also a few of us received small booklets about their religion and beliefs which I plan on reading.
The first museum we visited was the Rodin (pronounced row-dan) which was a bunch of his sculptures. They had a replica of his famous, The Thinker and I believe the actual The Gates of Hell at the entrance. Many of the sculptures were linked back to the Gates piece.
The one above is called The Secret which is two hands almost completely touching. I really liked that piece! Certainly one of my favorites.
Then we went to the Franklin Institute which was fantastic! We went inside this heart, saw a show at their planetarium and learned about what doctors do when people have heart attacks. They had a exposition on espionage but it cost extra sadly.
After that long day my roommate, Mandy (in the picture with me at the top of this post) and Lilly went to get dinner. I ate vegan food at a place called HipCityVeg, 127 S 18th St, where I had a fabulous jerk "chicken" salad with dried plantains (I love plantains).
Today was National Coffee Day therefore I had to go and have coffee to celebrate! So a few of us went down to Old City to have pizza at Soho Pizza, 218 Market St, visited The Book Trader so that I could pick up Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and get coffee at Old City Coffee, 221 Church St. I had a great cup of iced coffee! I highly recommend that place. Great atmosphere and the employees are quite nice. They also have great chocolate chip cookies!
With so much that happened this weekend there is no stopping the momentum! This week I am going vegan for the week which should be a challenging but rewarding experience. I will be living off salad, soy milk and apples. Wait, that's what I already eat!
Also this week I am going to go to see the movie Salinger which is about my favorite author J.D. Salinger. I read so many bad reviews but I am determined to still view it! I am obligated since he is my favorite and will do my best to enjoy it even if it is mediocre. Salinger would probably hate it anyway so it will be alright if him and I hate it together.
I will post again once I know more about England stuff and if anything exciting occurs in my life.
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