Rainy Sunday

This weekend was nonstop insanity for me. Friday afternoon after class I went to Cynthia Von Orthal's puppetshop to do an interview. I'm going to write a paper about her and puppets for Arts in the City class. Then I went to the Chicago Bulls game. It wasn't terribly exciting until the very end. They went into overtime tied at 99. The excitement was mainly because everybody had a coupon good for a free Big Mac if the Bulls won the game with a score of over 100. They did indeed win and we all won free Big Macs.

Saturday morning I got up for some three-on-three basketball. I had no idea how incredibly tiring full court basketball is compared to half court... especially with only six people on the court. Saturday afternoon everbody on Chicago Semester broke up into groups and went to different museums. My group went to the Museum of Mexican Fine Art. I was really surprised with the number of pieces. Then we stopped by a few galleries on an open gallery walk in Pilsen, the Mexican neigborhood. For supper we stopped by Nuevo Leon for Mexican.

Saturday night we went to DanceAfrica at the Chicago Theater. DanceAfrica is a whole bunch of dance groups performing everything from traditional African dance to modern hip-hop breakdancing and even some strange sort of ballet. The dancers were probably the best I've ever seen or ever will see.