Charles spent most of day two with his family in Philadelphia. Luckily, he was indoors when we were attacked by a severe storm that brought us buckets of water and strong winds, and of course, thunder and lightening. Amazingly enough, this was the 2nd time in about as many days that people in Philadelphia were struck by lightening!! I suppose people here have many lives, or are really lucky.Nonetheless, as soon as Charles got back to the hotel, we met for about an hour and half to go over possible ideas and questions for the barrage of upcoming meetings that we had lined up for the next two days. This is a great picture of Charles working during our Princeton sightseeing time. The next morning, Charles and I walked to the 30th street station to take the R7 to Princeton. Within an hour and a half, we had transferred at Trenton to the NEC train (North East Corridor) and then transferred at Princeton Junction to the small train that takes you straight onto the Princeton campus.
As soon as Charles and I stepped onto the Princeton campus, we were in awe. I have been to several Ivy League schools but Princeton by far takes the cake! The campus is absolutely gorgeous and part of its beauty is the fact that it's removed from the big city. The campus is lush and green and graced by old buildings that have born some brilliant minds. It was almost as if you felt smarter just being there. Okay, maybe I was just feeling hopeful but check out these pictures of this beautiful campus! The other cool thing about this university and town is that it is also so quaint and cute and it just feels so college-like. It actually reminded me a lot of Cambridge University in England.
Once we were done touring the campus, we got to Hamilton Hall where we were supposed to meet Tashim, the freshman at Princeton who participated in the Journalism program two years ago. She had so many great things to say about the program and the positive influence that it had on her life. Hey, she just finished her first year at Princeton and it loving it! So, the summer journalism program looks like a viable possibility for our students. It is very competitive but incredibly academic and rewarding. The day that we were there, the guy that wrote the piece in the New Yorker with the Barrack and Michelle Obama cover, was going to be giving a lecture after we left. I will finish later...
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Patty⎯How apropos that your first shot shows Charles on the phone⎯the way we all know him.
Charles was writing very appreciatively about traveling with you since you had some idea how to work the trains. After reading your post, I can see why. I’m sure, just like everything else, it comes with time but my head was spinning just reading about which train to take.
Between you writings and your photos, those buildings are something special. Sometimes old buildings just look old but other times they look pretty majestic. My house is the former and this is the latter.
I know your time with the Tashim was short but it sounds like it was productive. Charles explained how he bullied his way into a meeting with her when it appeared there might have been some confusion about the scheduled appointment and commitments that had been made. It would have been a true shame to have traveled all that way just to see a bunch of old buildings.
I’m glad you both decided to stay away from the lightning. I’ve been too close to lightning strikes in the past and they can be unforgiving. The only good thing is that if you survive a strike it gives you one heck of a story to tell for the rest of your life⎯that is if it didn’t fry your brain.
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