Chicago!

First, I apologize that I’ve been insincere with my assignments. I had trouble figuring out ‘what am I doing here’ kind of thing during the past weekend. Well, this is my second semester in IIEP, and I still make terrible grammatical mistakes, I don’t even speak very well until now. And I would never speak or write like native speakers, English would remain as my 2nd language for rest of my life. It’s unreasonable to think like this, but it bothered me. Yes, I admit I’m perfectionist while I hardly try things. Thus I always carry this contradiction from English to cleaning my room. Moreover, this course is not necessary or it gives me any advantage for my career, so my brain and inspiration became quite dull, I think. However, I especially like Niki’s class, I really mean it, and I have tons of things to learn. I’m going to try to enjoy, not just push myself into pressure.

Anyway..

Last Tuesday was my second trip to Chicago. When I came to US this time, I arrived to Chicago international airport, and I spent 4 days alone in Chicago. I like Chicago. I’ve been to many places in America, I’ve been to California and Nevada 4 years ago, and I had traveled the Grand Circle of Utah and Arizona this summer. Still my favorite city in US is San Francisco, but if I have to choose my favorite city beside San Francisco, it is definitely Chicago. I like the magnificent and somewhat antique building in Chicago. The buildings in Chicago look not so modern, I know nothing about architecture, but I love how the exterior of buildings look like. And Millennium Park! It is so unusual to me, since I came from tiny tiny country, that this gigantic park places just at the spot, among the expensive buildings and beside the lake. If it were in Korea, I am sure that people already built thousand of tall apartments. However, I went to most of places around Michigan Avenue, so this time it was all about shopping. I dropped by Aveda at the very beginning of my trip, I bought an after shave balm for Dave, which smells like citrus and lemon. And I went to Ghirardelli to buy STRONG dark chocolate for my best friend in Korea, who’s studying hard to go Pharmacist school. After that I picked up the store map of Michigan Avenue and shopped my clothes. Urban Outfitters was interesting place, though I couldn’t find any clothes suits my tastes, but I’ve always wanted to visit there since I saw the store at the Union Square, San Francisco.