Greetings from Chicago!!!

As most of you know, I'm currently at Model United Nations representing Mexico. I'm on the plenary committee and we've spent the past 2 1/2 days discussing Relief for Natural Disasters and Unification of Korea for 8 hours a day. Needless to say, when free afternoon (1-6 today) came around I was ready for a run.

I've been to Chicago but not for awhile so I wouldn't say I'm familiar with the area. I had made friends with the rep from Argentina, who is a Chicago native. I was talking to her about my plans to run when the quiet yet polite and friendly rep of Mauritius mentioned that he too was a cross country runner and was looking for a partner. So there we were. As we ran, we talked, and I discovered that he was from Westminster College (in Missouri) and alas-in our regional!!! He remembers all you lovely ladies from the hotel. Way to represent, Beloit. Adding on, I just looked up the results from the region to find that he finished about 24 seconds after Jarvis and 30 seconds before Jason, so we probably all saw him. Aren't these kinds of things always amusing?

It was a delightful run overall. We're staying at the Hilton Hotel; naturally we booked it to the lake. We ran up the ramp of the Shedd Aquarium then turned around to do more of the lake strip before eventually making our way back to the Hilton to rest before the 3 1/2 hour evening session. Good thing we sit right next to each other, as neither of our countries have a strong opinion on Korea and the session is sure to be quite dull.

Just thought I'd share my lovely windy city running adventure.