West Pullman Week 3

               This past week at West Pullman was a learning experience. We received visits from Shonettia and Zahra again. The visits were informational, productive, and fun. We brainstormed lots of ideas for our final performance. We're confident to say that this performance will be very enjoyable but at the same time informative. We couldn't have made it this far without their help.
 We also went on three trips in one day! Those trips included the History Museum, the Farmer's Market, and the Nature Museum.
              At the History Museum, we gathered lots of facts about the struggles of our ancestors. But everything we saw wasn't sad. We went to the Chicago Jazz & Blues Exhibit where they had the different artists and their hit songs. We also got on the first model L-Train. We also got a chance to have our pictures taken and displayed on a video pillar with powerful word like Faith, Defend, Act, and Fight.
              Then, we were off to the Farmer's Market. There, we walked around the market observing different farmer's products and some of us even tasted some of the different vegetables and food. They were really good! Then we talked with Emily about gardening and what we thought about the food. We also visited the Growing Power booth. Growing power is a farm that employs youth to help with gardening. We had a trip with them a while back and we were more than happy to talk with them again. 
              Last was the Nature Museum. From the time we walked in the door to the time we left there was never a dull moment. Everything was so fun and exciting and we were all eager to know about all of it. They had cool things like Water works under staircases, dead animals that were stuffed to appear life-like, and the headline of the trip was the Butterfly exhibit. They had 100s of different butterflies. They gave us a sheet on how to identify the different butterflies. We also witnessed the first flight of about 40 butterflies. Then all the parks went into a classroom and talked about the final projects and how they were coming along. Some of us even went outside with the camp kids and interacted with them for a little while.

            We also went into the savannah and did stewardship. And on Friday, Inferno came and a few of us were able to record poems and songs. I think it was beneficial for us to do the songs and poems because it gave us a chance to let our feelings out and tell people how we feel and what we go through. Last week was really a week of progress and we was the West Pullman TRACErs have achieved alot in this last week. Now its on to the next week as a West Pullman TRACEr. Lets see what's in store for us.