My name is Silvia Foster-Frau and I'm here typing live from Café 53, a small coffee shop in Hyde Park's Harper Court. I was yelping coffee shops in the area and decided to go for this one because of the especially delicious-looking pics of baked goods. So even though my table is rickety and I'm sitting right next to the door, the ginger cream scone and hot coffee has curbed any lurking discontentment.
...And now my post is sounding like one of those quirky Yelp reviews. Back to business.
Welcome! To the official blog of ACM Chicago and particularly to the first official post by yours truly! Here's where you can get all the deets on the chicago program, without the formality.
My name is Silvia, I'm an English major @ Grinnell College, I'm from Galesburg, Illinois (G-TOWN, 'SUP), and I'm doing the arts track in the Chicago program. This means I'm taking an arts seminar class with Susannah Papish, working on an artsy Independent Study Project (ISP) under the mentor-ship of Jason Pallas, taking the core course along with everyone else, and working at an internship site.
First let me gush about my internship. I'm interning at a latino/bilingual newspaper called Extra. I started last week and my article made the front cover of this weeks newspaper! Talk about hands-on internhips. To write the article, I got to interview the governor of the state of Mexico Eruviel Ávila, and shake the hand of Gov. Pat Quinn (of IL)! Look up my articles at extranews.net
The breadth of experiences I've had just in these past two weeks is breath-taking. Breadth-taking.
Here are some notables:
- history museum (including Ebony mag. fashion exhbition)
- contemporary art museum
- sandwich at Uber lunch place in loop (European style--we're talking baguette and manchego cheese)
- Green Mill jazz lounge (ghost of Al Capone spotted)
- Bongo Room brunch (ordered the "Chocolate Tower". It's even better than it sounds)
- Wicker park/Bucktown wandering (including Filter café and Recycled, a cool thrift store)
- Casa Estado de México (this is what my article was about)
- IO (previously called Improve Olympics) alumn show
- citizenship workshops at Pius Parish (I was reporting on new loan system for ppl applying for citizenship)
- Walnut Room in Macy's tower (super fancy)
- city council building and alderman Joe Moore (he's a Knox grad! And he has really cool community participation projects in his ward).
Last night we went to the UChicago Winter Art Soirée and it was on the 9th floor. I'd like to leave you with this night view of hyde park.
Oh, Chicago. You dry my skin, freeze my body, but still manage to warm my heart.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at silvia.foster.frau@gmail.com
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