During this expedition of dessert and ice cream places around Columbus, even something as little and as simple as this makes new students feel more comfortable and adept to the new city, especially one like Columbus. From this project, I was able to adjust and find myself in this city as if I belong here and it was able to make me excited to spend the next four years of my life here. Whether I was walking down the streets in the afternoon seeing a variety of people walking their dogs, or whether it was during the evening, walking down High Street, seeing all of the things that the Short North and downtown has to offer me, it was clear that no matter what, no two experiences will ever be the same. Everything will always be different. There will be different people you see, different people you go with, and even different types of food that you get. The difference that I will experience every time I go to the Short North or find myself in downtown Columbus will never be a bad thing. The streets will become familiar, some stores will even serve as nodes in the city to me, and the city of Columbus itself will be like my new home, but being able to have a new interaction every time is something that is very hard to do that Columbus is able to capture with ease and give out to the students and families. Throughout the next four years, there will always be a familiarity in difference, something that I have never been able to experience of even fathom before, I have learned in the first few months.

The night I had Jeni’s Ice Cream was the same night after I went out to dinner with a few really good friends at Marcella’s. We walked down to Jeni’s where we were all able to get some dessert to end the night. Jeni’s is always a great spot to pick for some ice cream, but the one thing that still confuses me is that they never seem to have the basic flavors that everyone loves, unless you would want to buy a pint of it for $10-$15 which is ridiculous to me, but even with their unconventional flavors, I still find it a very good dessert shop.

Rocket Fizz, located in the Short North, to me personally is one of the weirdest stores I will ever be in, but at the same time it is also a 10 year old versions of me dream. They, much like Jeni’s Ice Cream, have the strangest flavors of candy and soda, and the names are even more bizarre it seems like. In the end of this experience, I am sure I will find myself back there sometime sooner rather than later.

Graeter’s Ice Cream is my second favorite kind of ice cream that I have had in my lifetime. Mitchell’s Ice Cream is my favorite which I get all the time back up in Cleveland. Recently, Cleveland also got a Graeter’s Ice Cream put in so when I saw that there was one near Columbus, I knew this would be a place I had to go to again. My favorite part about this, aside from the fact that they have my favorite type of ice cream flavor (black raspberry chocolate chip) has to be the chocolate dipped waffle cone, going above any of my expectations. I will definitely find myself here at least once a week once the spring time rolls around.