Columbus Day Weekend

Quote of the day:

"War among grasshoppers delights the crow." -African Proverb

(from the Facebook group "I Love Being Black")

This weekend was a great weekend for me. I got the chance to leave the Washington D.C. area and travel to my roommates hometown of East Orange, New Jersey. Before we got there, we spent the night in Jamaica, Queens at St. John's University with some of my high school friends. It was great to get away from the mellowness of the Howard University campus and delve into the hustle and bustle of New York and New Jersey. Although we slept at my roommates house, my roommate, his brother, our friend, and I spent most of our days in New York. It was tough trying to navigate the NY transit system and I'm not going to lie; we got lost A LOT. But it was cool being in the heart of one of the world's most diverse cities. Every step we took, we witnessed new and different cultural happenings. The choices of food were innumerable although we stuck to what we were used to: fast food. =) At the end of the weekend, although I wished we had more time to explore the city, I was relieved to be back on campus at the good ole HU! (Shout outs to my roommate and his family, my friend Dudley, and all my friends at St. John's..you guys made this weekend a great one!)