Thursday, August 30, 2007
thoughts from Chicago
My first week in Chicago is almost finished! I am enjoying everything that I am learning about the city. Things such as how to use the public transportation system, increasing my map skills, meeting new personalities, and continuing living with roomates as well as overall city life. I am going to try to post on here once a week and this will be an excellent way to keep up on my life. So lately we have been exploring the city. Chicago is set up on a grid so knowing an address of a place is really helpful. The past couple days we have just been exploring different neighborhoods. We went to Greektown, Downtown, Little Italy, Devon Street (which is an Indian neighborhood), Andersonville (A swedish neighborhood), Pilson (where one of my directors lives) as well as Garfield Park where I am staying. One of the questions i have thought about is do I really want to say that I am a particular denomination or is it that important. Personally I am feeling like it really doesn't matter that much as long as I am Christian, however one person made the comment that (in her opinion) because I came from a Mennonite family (my extended family is mennonite but my parents and siblings do not go to a mennonite church) and I went to a Mennonite highschool and i am in RAD that that makes me pretty darn mennonite. However, it has been about 12-14 years or so since I have regularly attended a Mennonite Church and even though I did go to a mennonite highschool and college there were also muslims, hindus and atheists that went there (so would that make them mennonite because they went to a mennonite school? In my opinion no.), also i was baptized in an Episcopalian Church so I guess if I had to pick a denomination it would be Episcopalian. Hmmm....some other thoughts on that anyone?
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