Today was the annual short term clam bake at Popham Beach. This is a day where you can buy a ticket and enjoy burgers and lobster at the beach with the entire school. The weather left a little bit to be desired, it was cloudy and cold with not much sun but no one seemed too affected by the cool weather. I think everyone is so sick of winter that at this point we just pretend it’s warm and summery even when it’s not. People were in bathing suits and in the water. People were playing touch football and tossing baseballs around. The tide was low when I arrived so I was also able to make my way out to a rock formation that is usually in the middle of the water. The clouds didn’t make Popham any less beautiful and it was nice to see so many people congregating on the rocks.
I didn’t get lobster because lobster makes me feel uncomfortable. In fact, I think one of my first blog entries was about lobster and how it tastes like the sea. I tasted it again today, a year later, and still assert that it tastes just like the sea. Leave me with my veggie burgers thank you.
Aside from reasserting the taste of lobster I felt the camaraderie of Bates and of course got prematurely nostalgic for my life here. In fact tonight, one of my friends just burst into tears as she passed the graduation stage being built on the Quad. She wasn’t taking about anything graduation related, nothing sad, she just burst into tears. I think we’re all getting a little more unstable as reality sinks in.
We took lots of pictures of ourselves today as I think from now on each of us desperately wants to capture any moments we can in some way. Memory isn’t enough. Here are some photos from today: (note the lobster carnage and my rediculous get-up. it’s hard to look beachy when you get cold easily)
Shhhh,
Steph
