From the Airport to Augsburg...

From the airport I could already see Minneapolis! 

I love the new light rail that they have and I can't wait till it expands!

Some of the stations were quite artistic

I remember coming to one of the mills and watching a dance on the side of the building. So cool to see that they have kept the artistic flare!

The view from the bridge to Augsburg. Down town Minneapolis is just a stones throw away

Oh the memories of living in those two buildings... I hope the photos have been destroyed or lost! 

The start of the trip

So a couple of days ago I took a plane to one of my favourite cities, Minneapolis. I might be biased, this is where I went to undergrad...


Anyway, I started the day with some reggae

Took a train

Then waited for a bus

Found some cows at the airport... Thought I was in Chicago for awhile...

Then got bored waiting for the plane. 

The story continues tomorrow~

The wonderful T.

Having traveled a bit and living in multiple places, I have to say I love the T. I wish that all cities in the US had public transportation like Boston. For us it means that we don't need to have a car, no car insurance, and no parking spaces. This way we also get a bit more exercise as it's easier to walk to most places.  

Lazy Black Friday

So we protested Black Friday in the best way possible. We sat in old clothes and ate left overs, made bread from scratch and read used and or library books... Okay so that is the plan for most days off anyway.

I also spent the day going through some older photos and found a bunch from T's and trains. I hope you had a successful and safe Black Friday and that there were delicious leftovers aplenty.

Voting this Tuesday!

I'm so excited to be able to once again vote in person! Growing up I remember in my civics classes always being told that your most important job as a citizen was to vote, and was something I missed the most while living abroad. Sure I was able to and did vote for elections back in the US, but I wasn't able to vote in elections where I was living, and on measures that had more of a daily impact of my life, like the fact that international students were not allowed student concessions on busses because ya know we were foreigners. I understand why I couldn't vote, and that by moving there I had agreed to it, but I didn't like it. I once complained that I felt like a second class citizen and was reminded that I wasn't a citizen first, second or any class. This next week I once again get to use this liberty. I've read the bios of the aldermen at large and have chosen those whom I wish to vote for (all the other races only have one choice)

Bill White - whom was once a Republican, but is now a democrat endorsed by the progressive democrats and added a T-station to the orange line in Somerville.
Dennis Sullivan - Also endorsed by the progressive democrats and who according to the Somerville Journal

 asked city lawyers to draft a domestic violence policy at City Hall, booting offenders from city jobs and giving employees who have been victimized time to go to court. After a year of inaction from City Hall, Sullivan once again called for a policy to be written at the last aldermen meeting.

Sean Fitzgerald - who supports gay marriage and a state wide progressive income tax
and Jack Connolly - who has supported the expansion of the t-lines throughout Sommerville.

Yea voting! Yea democratic process! Yea America!