Happy Friday from the Windy City!!
It’s hard to believe that I have been living here for almost two months now. Time has really flown. Our farewell banquet is one week tonight – most definitely bittersweet.
One thing every week that I always enjoy is our Tuesday night Bible studies. I am in a group with five other awesome women. I don’t know that we have ever gotten through all of the content we are supposed to but we spend a lot of time building into one another and encouraging each other. It is such a great group.
On Wednesday I went to campus with Becca and Lindsey. We started our day at The Illinois Institute of Art. We ran into this girl, Christina, who has been coming to our Wednesday night meetings. She introduced us to a few of her friends who were hanging out in their student lounge. They were an interesting group to get to know. We got to hear about their lives and just talk to them a little bit about our project.
Afterwards we headed over to the University of Illinois at Chicago for English Club. As a campus team, we are continuing to meet with Simon and Alice. They are such a joy. This week, we did part of Soularium with them and ate s’mores.
UIC English Club
On Wednesday night we had our regular reLate meeting. We had an incredible speaker who talked about Biblical gender roles. Afterwards we had a $5 Prom social event. Everyone wasgiven $5. Then, we put together the craziest outfit we could by using what we already had and by going to the local Goodwill.
Jules, Joy, Kathryn, Molly, Scarlett, and Emily F
Tomorrow night is our last outreach of the summer. We are going back to the Thompson Center to help them feed the homeless and pass out clothes.
Project is beginning to wind down but we still have a few things going:
- I Agree with Andrew campaign
- English Clubs at UIC and IIT
- reLate on Wednesday night
- Campus Time Tuesday-Thursday
I plan to post another update soon with a bunch of pictures from the summer.
Happy August!!
