Chelsey in Chicago

(I should be tutoring today 9AM - 4PM but the classes were cancelled due to the storm.) Happy New Year! 2018 has been busy ! I love this quarter's classes even more than last quarter's! I am in a Spanish class reading Don Quixote and discussing how it influenced contemporary Latin American writers. I am also in a translation class where I get to read about translation theory, do my own creative translations, and listen to guest speakers who come and talk about their work as translators. Checkout the website where I have to post my own translation work each week:  https://exploratorytranslation.wordpress.com/ . You'll also see the varied and interesting work my classmates do. Lastly, I am in a  Harris School of Public Policy, Public Policy Lab . I am working with a team of eight other students to come up with governance and finance models for the Our Great Rivers project. Let me say it again, I LOVE my classes. I am getting to do the fun, whimsical stuff and also pra...

There were some posts I never got around to publishing so here they are briefly to round out the fall and beginning of winter in Chicago. Maggie's birthday is in November and I took her out for a full day of Chicago winter time fun. We first went ice skating at the Skating Ribbon in Millennium Park which is a look around what serves as rock-climbing walls during the summer. Maggie only feel once and I managed to stay on my feet the whole time! We then walked to the  Christkindlmarket which an open air, German themed market. There we got hot spiced wine in a commemorative cup, ate a warm pretzel and I bought Chris a beer stein. For dinner we walked to Eataly (Maggie fell in love with this place when we went there with Anne and some friends after the Disney/winter parade) and got pizza and Italian sodas. Anne left the second week of December and I have missed her since! On her second to last night in Chicago she met me at the Lincoln Park zoo where we saw lights, ice sculptur...