Field trip...
I decided to sleep in today, because I didn't feel like going to my morning classes...
I woke up and ate a little bit. Then Jason called around 1:40pm, saying that he arrived at Jefferson Park station and what bus he should take. About ten minutes later... Jason called again, telling us that he arrived at the Elston stop just behind my house. So, I walked out to go pick him up. I love taking the shortcut behind the bar near my house because it's much faster than going around. Not long after I brought Jason to the house, we received another phonecall, this time from Eric. Eric had gotten onto the Belmont train stop and is really close to JP. Five minutes later, Eric gets picked up by Miki and now we're all together for our party.
We watched a few random videos and ate some yummy pad-thai. We were watching a lot of videos of "The Sky is Falling" a Korean variety show. It was the cardboard cut-out game, a game where a person stands on a platform near a pool of water and a large cardboard cut-out of a random pose will move towards them and they must perfectly get their body to line up with the shape of the cut-out. If they pose incorrectly... they get pushed into the water, pose correctly... and spare the trouble of getting soaked. That game tests the ability of reflexes and the ability to think under pressure and time restraints. After finishing TSIF, we looked at some of our vacation photos. Then... after photos, I showed everyone the Kobayashi commercial I found yesterday. Everyone got a good laugh off of it, it was great!
Sadly, I had to leave because of my scheduled field trip downtown.
So... I took the blue line train to the Jackson stop, I looked for east... I don't carry a compass with me so I use the sun's position(I'm so old fashioned) to figure out the compass directions. Lake Michigan is to the east... I got off the southbound... TURN LEFT. I managed to navigate myself properly and arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago on time.
TADA!

I'm happy that I didn't get lost this time.
I don't go into downtown Chicago too often...
I only know where Harold Washington College, Daley Plaza, and House of Blues is. It's sad... I was never allowed to explore Chicago on my own, therefore... I have no idea how to get anywhere public transportation wise or directional wise.
I walked into the museum and saw my professor right away. Only eight people actually signed up to go on the trip... it was a very small group. The first thing my professor wanted to see was the Picasso painting I was talking about, "The Old Guitarist", the one with the hidden image of the woman in it. We walked all the way into the new wing of the museum, then we went to the 3rd floor and into the "Modern Art" section. The first painting we saw upon walking in was "The Old Guitarist." My professor walked up really close to the painting and began to examine it, turned around... glared at me... then did the finger gesture of beckoning me, "why don't you explain to the class?". The first thing I said was, "don't give me that look... it's creepy." I walked up towards the professor and looked at the painting. Of course I noticed the hidden image once again, it was no different from my first visit. I told my classmates to look up at the painting and look at the area "above the guitarist's ear." "If you look carefully, you can see the outline of a woman's face and eyes." Some of my classmates were confused and couldn't identify anything. I told them to focus on the ear and tilt their own heads a little bit so the light glare can reveal the hidden outlines. I then turned around and asked my professor, "do you believe me now?" My professor's response, "I never doubted you for a second." My reaction in my mind: then what was with the x-ray joke and public humiliation from a few weeks ago?!
After that interesting experience, everyone went their separate ways and went off to look at their favorite artists' works. As for me... I went off on my own and looked at this really interesting small painting by Salvador Dali. I was fascinated by its' colors and simplicity. But just as I was about to identify what the name of the piece was... I was interrupted by my professor who found me and dragged me back to the first floor. My professor wanted to do some strange lighting experiment and decided to use me and a classmate of mine as lab rats. We walked into the sculpture room, but there was a mean security guard who stood at the stairs and told us to go to the exit because the museum is about to close. My professor on the other hand, said, "wait! we only need a few minutes in there." The guard said, "you can't, all the rooms past here are sealed off." My professor then said, "oh, we don't need to go look at the rooms, we want to check something in the area beyond the stairs real quick." We walked right past the guard. My professor then told me to stand under one of the recessed lights and told me to look up. Wanted to check something regarding light exposure on the face. My professor found the light here to be adequate. We then walked back towards the gift shop and exit. Next to the gift shop was another recessed light... once more I was told to stand under it... We then continued pass another exhibit where there stood an oversized stone tablet... and again... there was a nice bright recessed light. "Could you please step towards the light..." My response, "ugh..... fine... (how many times must we do this?)" I kept being told to reposition myself, since I wasn't dead center for the light to reflect off me properly.
After my lighting experiment, we all walked to the exit, said goodbye and walked in different directions.
I got back home and continued to party on with my friends who were actually at my house the whole time I was out. Everyone had fun watch random footage of "Explorers of the Human Body." That show is really educational and fun. I get to learn about why laughing gas makes people laugh and what methods people can use to prevent getting dizzy from being spun around so much. For example if you are ever put into a spinning machine and you chew on something, it relaxes your equilibrium and you won't notice the dizziness. We ate Miki's homemade chicken curry rice, gekiuma desu! We just continued watching a lot of different Korean variety shows, we all had so much fun. During that time, I was showing Jason my AAA collection, because he liked the "Dance Corner: Special Edition" I made him for his birthday present. Jason isn't interest in AAA but he does kind of like the dances. Jason is so lucky, he owns the only dvd copy of the "Special Edition," I haven't made other discs yet... the only copy in existence. It was getting late and the guest needed to leave...
Today was fun for me too, I guess...
Until next time, bye bye!
I woke up and ate a little bit. Then Jason called around 1:40pm, saying that he arrived at Jefferson Park station and what bus he should take. About ten minutes later... Jason called again, telling us that he arrived at the Elston stop just behind my house. So, I walked out to go pick him up. I love taking the shortcut behind the bar near my house because it's much faster than going around. Not long after I brought Jason to the house, we received another phonecall, this time from Eric. Eric had gotten onto the Belmont train stop and is really close to JP. Five minutes later, Eric gets picked up by Miki and now we're all together for our party.
We watched a few random videos and ate some yummy pad-thai. We were watching a lot of videos of "The Sky is Falling" a Korean variety show. It was the cardboard cut-out game, a game where a person stands on a platform near a pool of water and a large cardboard cut-out of a random pose will move towards them and they must perfectly get their body to line up with the shape of the cut-out. If they pose incorrectly... they get pushed into the water, pose correctly... and spare the trouble of getting soaked. That game tests the ability of reflexes and the ability to think under pressure and time restraints. After finishing TSIF, we looked at some of our vacation photos. Then... after photos, I showed everyone the Kobayashi commercial I found yesterday. Everyone got a good laugh off of it, it was great!
Sadly, I had to leave because of my scheduled field trip downtown.
So... I took the blue line train to the Jackson stop, I looked for east... I don't carry a compass with me so I use the sun's position(I'm so old fashioned) to figure out the compass directions. Lake Michigan is to the east... I got off the southbound... TURN LEFT. I managed to navigate myself properly and arrived at the Art Institute of Chicago on time.
TADA!
I'm happy that I didn't get lost this time.
I don't go into downtown Chicago too often...
I only know where Harold Washington College, Daley Plaza, and House of Blues is. It's sad... I was never allowed to explore Chicago on my own, therefore... I have no idea how to get anywhere public transportation wise or directional wise.
I walked into the museum and saw my professor right away. Only eight people actually signed up to go on the trip... it was a very small group. The first thing my professor wanted to see was the Picasso painting I was talking about, "The Old Guitarist", the one with the hidden image of the woman in it. We walked all the way into the new wing of the museum, then we went to the 3rd floor and into the "Modern Art" section. The first painting we saw upon walking in was "The Old Guitarist." My professor walked up really close to the painting and began to examine it, turned around... glared at me... then did the finger gesture of beckoning me, "why don't you explain to the class?". The first thing I said was, "don't give me that look... it's creepy." I walked up towards the professor and looked at the painting. Of course I noticed the hidden image once again, it was no different from my first visit. I told my classmates to look up at the painting and look at the area "above the guitarist's ear." "If you look carefully, you can see the outline of a woman's face and eyes." Some of my classmates were confused and couldn't identify anything. I told them to focus on the ear and tilt their own heads a little bit so the light glare can reveal the hidden outlines. I then turned around and asked my professor, "do you believe me now?" My professor's response, "I never doubted you for a second." My reaction in my mind: then what was with the x-ray joke and public humiliation from a few weeks ago?!
After that interesting experience, everyone went their separate ways and went off to look at their favorite artists' works. As for me... I went off on my own and looked at this really interesting small painting by Salvador Dali. I was fascinated by its' colors and simplicity. But just as I was about to identify what the name of the piece was... I was interrupted by my professor who found me and dragged me back to the first floor. My professor wanted to do some strange lighting experiment and decided to use me and a classmate of mine as lab rats. We walked into the sculpture room, but there was a mean security guard who stood at the stairs and told us to go to the exit because the museum is about to close. My professor on the other hand, said, "wait! we only need a few minutes in there." The guard said, "you can't, all the rooms past here are sealed off." My professor then said, "oh, we don't need to go look at the rooms, we want to check something in the area beyond the stairs real quick." We walked right past the guard. My professor then told me to stand under one of the recessed lights and told me to look up. Wanted to check something regarding light exposure on the face. My professor found the light here to be adequate. We then walked back towards the gift shop and exit. Next to the gift shop was another recessed light... once more I was told to stand under it... We then continued pass another exhibit where there stood an oversized stone tablet... and again... there was a nice bright recessed light. "Could you please step towards the light..." My response, "ugh..... fine... (how many times must we do this?)" I kept being told to reposition myself, since I wasn't dead center for the light to reflect off me properly.
After my lighting experiment, we all walked to the exit, said goodbye and walked in different directions.
I got back home and continued to party on with my friends who were actually at my house the whole time I was out. Everyone had fun watch random footage of "Explorers of the Human Body." That show is really educational and fun. I get to learn about why laughing gas makes people laugh and what methods people can use to prevent getting dizzy from being spun around so much. For example if you are ever put into a spinning machine and you chew on something, it relaxes your equilibrium and you won't notice the dizziness. We ate Miki's homemade chicken curry rice, gekiuma desu! We just continued watching a lot of different Korean variety shows, we all had so much fun. During that time, I was showing Jason my AAA collection, because he liked the "Dance Corner: Special Edition" I made him for his birthday present. Jason isn't interest in AAA but he does kind of like the dances. Jason is so lucky, he owns the only dvd copy of the "Special Edition," I haven't made other discs yet... the only copy in existence. It was getting late and the guest needed to leave...
Today was fun for me too, I guess...
Until next time, bye bye!