Tag: pictures
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Israel (round two)
Nothing like some good international travel to gain some perspective, am I right? The more places I go, the more I like to come back rather than go somewhere new, because every time I revisit somewhere, I find something I hadn’t seen before. This trip back to Israel was just like that. Being able to…
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New York at Christmas
The new year is here, and accordingly things have been insane in the great city of Chicago. School is back, the Law School Musical is in full swing, rowing is trucking along, and I’m competing in the Miss Chicago/Miss Windy City pageant in exactly seven days (!!!). Rewind, though, to just before Christmas, when I…
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Budapest
I just got home from spending two weeks in northern Hungary, and what a life-changing experience it was. We stayed in a German boarding school in Pilisvöröswar for a world meeting of the Donauschwaben people and traveled to surrounding villages (with a day trip to Budapest) for performances, mock weddings, and cultural stuff. It was…
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Boston
AAU Nationals has come and gone over the Fourth of July week, and I’m all moved into a new apartment in Chicago. The month of July was the one I’ve been waiting for all summer, because I’m literally criss-crossing the United States right now. I flew from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale for nationals, Fort Lauderdale…
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Summer in Chicago
I love this city. I will never stop loving this city. Some part of me wants to live and die here. To be determined how large that part is. I’ve spent much of the last two weeks in Soldier Field watching soccer, at a bar watching soccer, working at my kitchen table, or training for…
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San Francisco
Someone once told me that I struck them as a NorCal girl, with my hippie hair and penchant for elephant pants. I’d never been to NorCal, but I was determined to find out if she was right. Over the winter I had the opportunity to check out a different part of California than my soul…
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