The start of the adventure at the T-station in Boston on Saturday morning.
Ryan Hernandez, George Wang, Chris Roman, Josiah Jones, Rayjon Mitchell, Kai Clancy, & Marty Shannon
Chris Roman, our local Boston expert, checking out the driver’s seat of a 1960 MG near Faneuil hall prior to the group receiving a brief history lesson on the Faneuil Hall market and meeting place in 1743.
After watching a Boston College football game, Devaun Bovell, an ABC grad and rising Junior gave us an excellent tour of the campus, classrooms, and dorms at BC while sharing his experiences in school with the boys. He was tremendously positive on how the ABC program prepared him for college and how much he enjoyed BC.Library study area at BC.
Business school class … taught by Professor Bovell.
Family style dinner in Chinatown after a long day — quiet aside from the sound of food disappearing.
An amphibious “Duck” Tour providing an excellent history of Boston before a walking tour of the MIT campus on Sunday morning.
Drove to UConn Storrs and were met by Kwaku Gyasi a freshman who was glad to see his ABC family as he had only been at school for two weeks. He gave us a private tour of the gym where several pick-up games attracted the boys’ attention, showed us his lecture halls, packed 7 boys in his 2 bed, 7 foot by 9 foot dorm room, and joined us for ice cream at the on-campus dairy. Kwaku leading the boys around campus.
Kwaku sharing his initial experiences at UConn (… and why it was much better than Boston College).
