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Februar 10, 2012

Hop, Skip and a Week

Uhh, we have been incredibly sociable. When adults get a year off their every-day duties and can spend instead of earning their keep, they turn back in development and behave like students again. After the Swiss party we had a spontaneous post Swiss party on Saturday evening in one of the Chicagoan famous steak houses. I cannot remember when I last ate juicy pieces of basically raw meat but they do know how to do them so we rolled back to bed just to wake up on Super Bowl Sunday and get ready again to an organized viewing of what seems to be the second biggest national holiday after Christmas in the country. A professor of the Law School had invited around 80 students to his humble 14-room Hyde Park apartment and although I had had my reservations about watching hours of football, Madonna and a cute waiter serving expensive Chardonnay made it all worth it.
Then our weekly dinner was on Wednesday, this time with the South American and Mexican friends, salmon lasagna and numerous bottles of red wine, and yesterday was Michael`s surprise birthday party in the students pub on the campus. Funny story - Doris wanted to have a shot of bourbon for her stomach ache and the barkeeper requested a doctor`s prescription for that. Apparently, hard liqueur can only be handed out on campus as a mixed drink.
In between those parties we managed to squeeze in another lunch in the Chicago Art Institute and this time, we concentrated on Modern American Art from 1900 onwards.
Below is a very cute sample of the American art during depression by Doris Lee, you know, going back to the family values and sorts.
Of course, there was Mr Hopper with his too famous Nighthawks...
and Grant Wood`s American Gothic that we all know from the Desperate Housewives
as well as Marc Chagall and the America Windows.
Clerg even accompanied me to a special exhibition of American textiles and although they smelled a bit, I found them absolutely beautiful.
Today it started to snow again, and we decided to skip the dinner and Art Walk in Pilsen Galleries that this international student group had organized and stayed at home instead. How sociable can one be, after all.


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