Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Inside Cancer (upgrade!)


Traveled to Chicago for our first workshops of the year on cancer ( www.insidecancer.org ). It was well attended with various college and HS faculty and overall went well. Traveling outside NY is always an interesting traipse into culture shock. I am not sure where to begin about how strange the customs of the locals were, but that's because I find most people strange. I tried to look at the clues, like the way their subway is organized, or the perponderance of Stop signs on what I thought were streets in the middle of downtown Chicago. The main thing about going on a trip like this is getting as much for free as possible. We stayed at the Allerton hotel, where I left my workmates to their cots, and asked for and got the free upgrade. Twin flat screen TVs, living room, nice views, ect. I only manged to use one of the TVs as I was only in for one evening.











We supped at le whatever, I don't remember the name, but it was supposed to be french-thai fusion. The waiters had some uniforms inspired by the chinese army in the time of Chairman Mao (that was the french part?). The food was Thai, and ranged from acceptable - good.

The workshop went well, it was at Illinois Tech. We had breakfast at the hog and cow, or elephant and something. The pancakes were good, although had we actually run into the Danish ambassador, I would have managed a pastry or two.

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