It has been a fun summer, living in the city, exploring different activities (e.g. African Festival, island getaway, improve meetup, summer concerts…) and restaurants (e.g. Italian Fettuccini & meatball, Korean fried chicken, Chinese Dim Sum & clay pot rice, Vietnam sandwich, French pastries…), and hanging out with roommate R & her friends (e.g. watching 7/4 firework, hiking, making dumpling/ leak pockets…)
Time to move out. It’s a busy moving weekend because of the end of month/ summer and starting of school. We live close to a university campus and locals call ‘Allston Christmas’ (lots of people move and throw out mattresses, sofas, furniture, appliances…all over the curbside). On top of that, street parking is abandoned for moving. Police towed a bunch of cars. I was lucky to escape.
If that’s not enough, my roommate R got a call from her future roommate S that S was ‘evacuated’ from the apartment. What? The landlord passed away recently and his daughter didn’t want to rent anymore. S didn’t open the notification letter until 2 days ago. Suddenly, R needs to find a new home. WoW!
R went online and I texted a bunch of friends to ask for apt opening/ if anybody is looking for roommates. In the end, I helped R to move stuffs to the office and dropped her off at a friend’s place to crash for a few days before heading to my aunt’s home for tonight (waiting for my new home to be vacant and cleaned). I’m thankfully for my aunt’s accommodation, the yummy dim sum dinner, and a relaxed walk with tea afterwards.
Looking back, R and I supported and cheered each other through a long (12+ hours), tiring ‘moving madness’ and turned it a ‘good’ day. We ‘exercised’ by moving stuffs and ‘cleaned’ the fridge with ‘creative’ food combo of toasted bun, ZonZi (sticky rice dumpling with red beans and jujube wrapped in bamboo leave), dumplings, wontons, ice cream, grapefruit tea, cheese & chocolate, and roti… world tour of food and celebration of friendship J