Welcome to Our Blog!!

After arriving at Boston University three years ago, the five of us met and instantly bonded as best friends. Ali and Jenna were freshman year roommates; they were set up by a friend of a mutual friend became inseparable once in Boston. They discovered their similar love for the color purple (their whole dorm room was color coordinated), the same obsession with white chocolate as well as their dislike for a communal bathroom. Ellen lived on the same floor as Ali and Jenna, and Ellen and Jenna were both in the same college, so they spent lots of time working through the tough freshman classes such as biology and anatomy, and celebrating the completion of difficult exams and labs. Spring Semester of their freshman year, Ali, Jenna and Ellen met Hilary and Evie when they all joined the same sorority, Alpha Epsilon Phi. We have been through a lot of fun, adventures, and excitement together in Boston over the past few years. As our second semester of junior year approaches, we will all be scattered and separated across different countries, as four of the five girls spend the semester abroad! (Is this really happening!?!) 

Hilary is spending the semester in Jerusalem, Israel. She has an insane love for fashion and culture, and we pray that she returns when the semester is over and doesn't decide to stay in Israel. (That's just a joke..kind of.) Evie is exploring her love for all things Spanish in Madrid, Spain. She has even scored an internship at Glamour! After lots of debating and deciding, Ali is going to Rome, Italy! Her love for Italian food (who isn't obsessed with penne vodka) leaves the rest of us so jealous of all the incredible food that is available to her. Ellen is definitely the adventurous one, spending her semester in Buenos Aires, Argentina! She's definitely going to have an experience of a lifetime. And Jenna is staying in Boston to finish up her last three undergraduate classes before she starts graduate school for her masters in Speech Pathology next Fall! She's sad to be at school without four of her best friends, but she knows the semester will bring many new adventures and excitement for her in Boston as well!

How can the five of us possibly keep in touch you ask? It is 2012 so there were many options available for us! Even with the availability of all the social media, we did think about sending some sort of clothing item around to play off of "a sisterhood of the traveling pants" deal. After considering all the shipping charges, we decided against that idea. (We do need to save our money for travels and presents for our best friends and family!

Although we knew that we could keep in touch through Facebook, emails, Skype and postcards, we wanted to do something a little different. We are proud to present our joint blog! Here once a week each of us will do an exciting post about our city or travels. Although so far apart, through this we can remain close together. We will see similarities and parallels while we each grow into our own skin in places across the world. We can prove how with every new experience, we can never forget the people who know us the best.

Please follow us for everything from friendship to food in these posts. We love all the support as we each embark on something new for all of us!!

The five of us!!