July 20, Cemetery in Hickory Hills Park

Between the Lines updates (international writing program)

FREE day! Crazy shopping in the morning. Students became really excited as sales or clearance in the USA doesn’t mean that the price goes up and then you are given 20-30% discount. Sales 50-70%, all for 8$, 6$, get one get second for 2$, and so on.

I could hardly take all the bags back to the dorm.

I bought a cowboy hat for my brother.

I went to the comics book store and brought a box back.

We grabbed some burritos for lunch.

So everyone enjoyed themselves getting lost in antique shops, vintage clothes & jewelry or discount books.

After lunch the group went to watch a film in Center for Communication Studies. Room 101 was like a small cinema, which made a film about war in Iraq even more impressive. Nobody moved when the film finished. As the instructor went to turn off the equipment, we held our breath to stop crying. Then Misha raised, but the spell wasn’t broken. Impressed and depressed, we went back to the dorm.

Look! This bird is holding something in its beak.

A bright-bellied robin was running along the pavement like a penguin. We widened the strides so that the robin couldn’t escape our gaze. Then it flew up to the branch. Three featherless heads jutted out of the nest. Little beaks stuck out, exploring the world. It was like an old-fashioned brownie after hot Mexican source. After the eye-opening film on Iraq with crippled children clearing the pastures of mines, digging trenches instead of doing math, it was a balm. Life was going on.