Like I mentioned in the last post, Thursday we went to see Muti conduct Braham's Requiem. Apart from it being incredibly windy and rainy, it was a good night. The performance was beautiful - it's been forever since I've seen a choral/orchestra performance and I've never seen one quite at this level. It did drag on for a bit - lasting over an hour and a half, but it still was a performance I enjoyed attending.
Friday night we had a girls night out, which really meant hanging out in our apartment until 10:30 or 11 and then finally going out for a couple hours. I think we got back after 1:30 sometime to immediately crash in our beds.
But sleep went by far too quickly. Renae and I decided to sign up for the service project the next morning which meant we were headed out by 9am. For the service project we went to where another girl in our program is interning - The Rebuilding Exchange. We had no idea what we were getting into... The Rebuilding Exchange is a very new not-for-profit organization that partners with deconstruction organizations to re-sell usable doors, windows, cabinets, light fixtures, basically anything from a home instead of demolishing the home and dumping it all into the landfill. So the building is basically a warehouse filled to the brim with building supplies. Our job that morning was to reorganize the cabinetry: to pick out the pieces they decided to give away for free and move them to the other side of the warehouse to make room for the new cabinets, and then we were to tackle the stacks and stacks of cabinets. It was crazy - we had to shuffle them around like they were a giant puzzle - putting sets together and then organizing by colors. Writing it out, it sounds like a pretty basic task, but trust me, it was a lot of lifting! My arms and back are so sore today - but it was fun to hang out with some other people from CS for the day. Plus I got to play with two adorable dogs (which couldn't have made me happier - that is the thing I've missed far too much this semester... outside of family and friends, of course) and got a free lunch out of the deal!
Saturday evening (we got back from the service project around 3:30pm) a group of us tracked down a thrift store up north hoping to find some neat stuff or ideas for halloween costumes. Sadly, it was pretty much a bust, but we found another store we might try later this week. Once we got back to the apartments we had a wonderfully lazy night of dinner, ice cream, popcorn, and watching the movie Brick. (I also knitted - finishing the first half of my pair of gloves).
This morning I had to get up a bit earlier than normal for church (well not really, but the Pastor told us we should probably get their early in order to get seats) because the worship was lead by Jaci Velasquez and her husband's band Salvador. It was a complete 90s flashback all morning! Then after lunch and a little bit of homework, Renae and I headed to the south side of Chicago to check out an art gallery that I needed to visit for a paper. It's about a 30 minute train ride, but it was a nice small gallery. The current show is an exhibition of new and emerging local artists. We only saw about half of the work because there was an artist talk in the upstairs room which was so packed people were standing half-way down the stairs to listen. The works we did see were beautiful - the artist I am writing about is Max Sansing. He has a really interesting story and is incredibly talented - google him!
Now I'm doing everything I possibly can to avoid doing more homework - updating my blog, calling home, knitting, watching a movie, doing dishes... anything... but I guess it's time to find something else to procrastinate with since I'm pretty much done here...
Hope you are all blessed and enjoying the fall weather while it lasts!
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