I spent the last four days with my QFI besties in Chicago, and it was lovely. Prior to meeting up with QFI, though, one of my best friends from college, Eli, picked me up from the airport and took me to Andersonville, a super cool neighborhood, for brunch and a stroll. Being two English majors, we naturally stopped at a great bookstore, and I spent entirely too much money. He then dropped me off at the hotel (right off Michigan Avenue), where I promptly took an epic nap. When I woke up, I wandered around downtown and headed to Fulton Market, another fun neighborhood, where I was meeting my two best friends, Alicia (who just moved to Evanston) and Katie (who was there visiting Alicia) for dinner. We had a blast. And, I just love exploring cities by foot. While we had a lot of experiential learning when we were last together in Dearborn, this workshop was more lecture-based, and it was with James Gelvin, Professor of Islamic Studies at UCLA. It was so much learning (with a focus on the modern Middle East) -- and I realized how long it has been since I've been in a lecture-style course! We did, though, have a lot of fun (of course). One of the coolest things we did was go on an architectural boat tour on the Chicago River. Regardless of whether we were sitting in a workshop or out exploring the town, though, it was just great, as always, to be together with this crew. This is just the greatest group.
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