Another week has come and gone! Everything happens so fast in the city. If you feel like you've gone through your life endurance running, just jogging, life getting a little more difficult each time but on a flat plateau, go to Chicago and you'll find yourself sprinting. Uphill. Luckily, it's over in like 2 seconds. That's my running metaphor.
On Friday I got up extra early so I could "Dip [my] card" in a machine and get a public bike to use for the day. Chicago's public bike system is called Divvy, and you can't miss it. Bright, plastic blue, chunky bicycles with black metal handlebars. After discovering a discount on a 24-hour Divvy bike pass on groupon (s/o Brooke, you savvy bargain hunter you) we embarked on an early, windy, cold, exhilaratig bike ride from hyde park to downtown chicago for our core course class.
I'd like to say we made it all the way and felt so refreshed and well-exercised afterwards, but that would be lying. And lying is bad.
What actually happened is we rode from 55th street to 47th street, felt tired and pressed for time, hooked our Divvy bikes up to a nearby station, and took the bus to class.
In core course we learned about the CPS (Chicago Public Schools) system and how crappy and difficult it is and how it compares to private schools and what are charter schools and magnet schools and how are they different and if we had an 8th grader how would we go through the application process and--hey! I coincidentally wrote an article surrounding the CPS v. Charter debate for my newspaper so find it onlineee people and help me become a famous journalist #ASAP
The adventure continues when core course ends and Brooke and I decide that this time, we will not be wimps. This time, we will succeed.
And succeed, we did.
First we explored Grant Park and took some pics.
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| fountain! |
And then rode all the way from, 0 to 55th street. It was beautiful. The best part was looking back and seeing the Chicago skyline. I don't have a pic of this though because that would've been dangerous to do while bike riding. #safetyfirst
So that's how cute and adventurous we are.
In other news, we went to a concert last night woo woo and got in fo' free WOO WOO!
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| Broods, a brother/sister duo from New Zealand |
I guess you could say I know how to "work the system" in Chicago. Do the ACM program, and you will, too.
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