Chicago 1st Day

In the very early morning, I left home for the airport. It was about 2:30 am. The flight I took was Southwest as usual. The flight time was about 6 am, and it took about four hours from San Francisco to Chicago. The time lag is about two hours, so when I arrived at the Midway airport, it was already noon in Chicago.

The first thing I did was to buy a 1-day pass of the city train called Ventra, and I headed to the downtown of Chicago. It was cold and dry. Buckingham Fountain, a fountain I stopped by, was completely dried up (maybe water was just stopped). I walked, walked, and walked for a long time. I saw The Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium but didn't get in because there was a very long line. Yet, the view form those area was beautiful.

Since "Thanksgiving" is the national holiday, it was so hard to find shops and restaurant open. I had lunch at Mei's Kietchen, a Chinese (?) restaurant. This was the only big restaurant open this time. Because this was the Thanksgiving day, I ate a big turkey.

I used the city train and walked a lot again. I visited Millennium Park to see the cloud gate, and then walked through Lake Shore East Park. The buildings were awesome!! Those buildings were so modern and artistic design. Snow remained still in that area.

I walked through a shopping street. It was beautiful because lots of lights were decorated on trees and skyscrapers.

Thor 2

I went to watch Thor: The Dark World. There were so many joke scenes, so it was very fun!! Natalie Portman is still beautiful.

Escalon

I visited a small city that I've never visited before. The first purpose was to go to Espresso Gone Wild but it looked closed... so I just went to Starbucks. It was actually better atmosphere than I thought. I studied until sunset.

Starbucks and library

Finally, I finished making my paper and power point for the business strategy class. Even though I need to add or edit a little bit more, I'm so relieved.

New word leaned

Gold-digger

Trophy wife

Money-driven

These words are for women who are thought as bitchy for husband. Unfortunately, those women are everywhere in the world.

Happy life

On the radio, I heard a commercial. A boy and a girl are talking with their dad. The dad gives gifts for each and says, "Open the gift box!" "Thank you daddy!" say Children. The boy says "Hey, this is my phone." The girl says, "What? This is my laptop." They ask their dad why these are the gift. The dad answered. "Because our Internet changed to Xfinity, your smartphone and laptop are faster to connect the Internet. This is the my gift to you guys." and then the girl asks, "What about mom?" The dad answered, "She got a new tablet. Happy wife, happy life." Xfinity is such a witted.

Issue of a group project

A member of my team has not prepare for the power point at all. Her excuse was her cough and cold, but it has last for long time and she was absent on many classes last couple of weeks.

First, the other member and me discussed and consulted to our professor. However, his answer was that, no matter who is missing, the grade of this project depends on the performance of the group. If someone is missing, others have to make up for it. Then, the other member and I decided that we give her an option, which is that, if she cannot prepare her part by Sunday, we will kick her out from our team and do everything by ourselves instead of her.

I have never been in such a situation when I was in my university in Japan. I also feel that this is a kind of American style.

My school days is only a month left. I will be so busy...