Well here I am after my Saturday morning cleaning has been done and I find myself with a little free time before lunch. I have really enjoyed Chicago and living in the city and working in the retirement home. Yesterday at work we had a birthday party (which they have every 3 months) and we also played bingo. Since I am the only other person (besides the housekeeping and kitchen staff) that speaks pretty fluent Spanish I get asked a lot to translate for the Spanish residents that speak little or no English. I have done every translating from convincing a resident to go down for a meal to translating during an activity. Yesterday I was helping one of the residents play bingo. She is from Mexico and she gave me a history lesson about Mexico and the Catholic church (I work for Catholic Charities) as well as some words of wisdom all completely in Spanish and I understood about 90 percent of it! I was quite pleased with myself and I know the retirement home is delighted to have us as they have expressed their appreciation in many ways including calling our director and telling her what an amazing job we are doing there. Then last night we met as a group at a coffee shop and the director bought us all supper. We sat and talked there for 2 hours! Then a group of us (including our director) decided we wanted to go swimming. So we drove to the beach (yes I did say the beach, with sand and everything) on the north side of the city and went swimming in Lake Michigan. This was 10pm! The water was cold and fairly shallow in the swimming part (although some parts of the lake can be close to a mile deep but that is way out in the middle) but there was also a warm breeze blowing so it felt alright.
We are also working on our visas for Colombia. Most of the paper work was done by Aaron and Laura Kauffman in Colombia and yesterday we recieved a packet of papers that they sent to us. Now we have to go to the Colombian consulate here in Chicago and submit our applications for the visas. Then we have to go back later for interviews. So keep praying that everything will go well and that we will get them.
My plan for today is to be a tourist for the day and visit Michigan Avenue which is a big shopping street in the financial district. I highly doubt I will buy anything but there is stores such as a 3 floor Gap, Macy's, and more so I will just have fun looking around in different stores. So that is my sfternoon, tonight I am not really sure what I will do.
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