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The first few days... / Sep 25, 08:30 AM
Hi everyone! I’m sure you all have been breathlessly awaiting this day, esp. you, Sigrid! It’s been a while since I last wrote in this, so I’m not exactly sure where I left off. So I will just start with arriving in Chicago. I flew into Midway airport on the 7th, and met Jen Casselberry, the wife of Shawn Casselberry, my city director. Another one of my teammates, Andrea, was arriving at the same time too, so she just picked both of us up and took us to Lou Malnati’s, a pizza place, where the rest of the Chicago people were waiting for us. I had forgotten how good Chicago pizza is, and I was really hungry, so that was a good dinner! And so I met my team captain, Ashley, and the other two girls on the Lawndale team, Melissa and Sam(antha). We all get along really well, so that makes things easier. So after dinner, we loaded everybody’s stuff up and took all the teams (there are three teams of five in Chicago) to their respective houses. The North Lawndale apartment is the smallest out of all of them, but we all love it. It makes it easier to look homey and lived-in without accumulating too much stuff. We’ve been doing lots of rummage sale-ing and stuff, though, so we’ve been getting a lot of new things. Just the other day we got a new chair for our living room and a bookshelf, so we don’t have to use milk crates on the floor anymore. The kitchen is fun too, because in order to be able to be hooked into the wall, the stove is practically in the middle of the floor. So funny things like that that make the apartment ours. So far this community living thing is working out really well, but we’ll see how it goes over the next few months!;) Next entry: Week in Hotlanta…
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