Miscellaneous Excursions

YAY for Free Time!! Night out with some Rushiieesss


Roomie Jillian, Me and Friend Kate!!


Then Kate picked me a flower. How sweet.




MY THURSDAY OUTFIT.


JESS COMES TO CHICAGO! (She lived upstairs from me in Australia!!)


Me and Amy at the WHITE SOX GAME!! (Totally reppin my Boston Gear!)

PRIDE PARADE- CHICAGO

Pride Parade... just realized I dont even have any pics with EJ! Oops.

Brief update

So i havent been able to update my blog as much as I had intended. Grad school is CRAZY. Classes are going well-- challenging for sure, but enjoyable none-the-less.

Been meeting a lot of people, and doing a lot of fun things in the city, but most of my time is consumed by class and homework. Lots has happened over the past couple weeks:

Pride Parade with EJ and Sarah
Trip to Sleepy Hollow with Jillian
Drinks in the Viagra triangle
White Sox Game
Lunch With Linsay Greenlay!
Beach trips
Italian Festival
All you can Eat Sushi Night
Evanston Movie and drinks
Greek Town
Loomis Park

...pictures to follow.

Jenelle Visits Chicago

Jenelle cant bear to live without me so she booked flights to come see me after only a week of being away. hahaha. We had a lot of fun touring the city, going to the beach, and checkin out the night life. I had never been to Navy Pier so it was nice to check that out. We went on the giant ferris wheel, and did the flying swings. Heres is a peak at thattt....




Also on the pier we went on speed boats in Lake Michigan and did fancy tricks, and went realy fast.... until the clouds poured through and we got a major thunderstorm. This is what the city looked like from the boat...


And then we walked all the way home in the biggest storm of life (there were tornado warnings!! Tornado Warnings?) We stopped at a bar for a drink (because, we were obviously feeling parched) It was fancy. We looked like drowned rats. The ba tender got a nice tip. Everyone was happy. And when came home this is what my front lawn looked like.

...GEM KIDDOS

Jillian and I had some people over last night. We met a bunch of other kids who live on campus who are also in our program. We had some snackies and wine. It was a fun time... and great to get to know the other people.



And this is Jillian. But hopefully we can take a better pic this weekend. hahaha


Tomorrow, Jenelle is flying in to come stay for the weekend. More pics to come...

MY APARTMENT

Im a little behind with the updates, so I need to back track. It was sad saying goodbye to all of my friends, but I was so excited to finally make my dreams into a reality. I packed up my room: (Or rather tried to pack, and instead made a bigger mess each time.



...and heres gizzy. Nesting.




And then we packed up the van-











Then, we embarked. I put my camera in the front seat hoping to take pictures of all the "Welcome" signs as we crossed borders. As we approached New York I turned on my camera, flung out the car door, aimed, focused, and just as I was ready to click. My camera died. Go Me.