Saturday was the day where we left Madison and travelled to Chicago. We have a quiet morning before we check out about 10am and loaded the bus, which should drive us to Chicago. One of our American teachers was there to say goodbye to us. It was a little sad to leave Madison because we had such a great week there full of good experiences and sweet people.
"Our hotel in Madison - Best Western East towne suties".
We drove about 2 and a half hour with the bus but most of the class slept almost the entire way to Chicago. When we got to Chicago, we were totally blown away by this beautiful city and its amazing skyline. Only two of the rooms were ready when we arrived so we put all the luggage in the two rooms before we went out to experience the city and get some lunch.
We met back at the hotel at 3pm where people took their luggage into their own room. Afterwards we all went on a walk around in Chicago. Our teachers, Preben and Søren, shown us down town Chicago which include "The bean" as we call it, Millennium Park, The Magnificent Mile (which is a shopping street) and other streets in the town. The town is so nice and its skyline is amazing!!
"The Bean" in Chicago.
One of the most impressive building is the "Trump Tower" which is almost a imitation of Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The "Trump" building is huge and very beautiful and the placement is nothing less than perfect. Directly to The Magnificent Mile and with a beautifully view over the water and the town.
"The Trump tower" in Chicago.
Millennium Park is nice park, where you can go for nice walk, visit the famous "bean" or just relax a little. 5 minutes away from "the bean" is the Magnificent Mile, which is a famous shopping street with all famous brands and much more. Expensive brands as Burberry, Chanel and Armani, but also cheaper but stil very popular brands as Zara, Topshop and many other brands are placed here.
We got a very good first impression of Chicago - the people here is very kind and the town is beautiful and luckily is the weather very good as well. The sun was shinning the entire day which only made the town look even prettiere.
What a view over beautifully Chicago!
Chicago look like other American big cities like New York, but a very speciel thing about Chicago is the "metro". The metro here is very speciel because the trains drive over the cars like normally trains do. They don't have a underground system here, they do only use the metro driving over the earth.
The "Metro" in Chicago which is over the earth.
At the evening some of us girls and most of the boys went to United Center, which is the home of Chicago's basketball team - Chicago Bulls. We drove to United Center with the driving app "Uber" which means that you order a private car that is near you and then the car pick you up and take you to your destination. Uber is very popular in the United States but not as popular in for example Denmark. It worked very well and our driver was so friendly.
Our experience at the United Center can't be described with words. It was totally amazing!! And we enjoyed every minute of it. We were there very early so we have lot of time before the game started. This saturday, Chicago should play against Indiana Pacers. The United Center is truly amazing and the atmosphere was something unique - everybody was happy and supportning the team by for example singing "let's go bulls!". In the beginning, Chicago was behind Pacers but before the half they were in front and they ended as the winner of the game with 121 point. During the game was there many times out so the teams could discuss their strategy. During the night was there some different competitions and shows from cheerleaders. The Basketball teams were both very good and without doubt in good shape before the season begin. The game consists of 4 quarters, which each is 12 minutes long. The rules for basketball is pretty easy to understand and the game is very interesting because the team can be 12 points behind and 10 minutes after 6 points in front of the other team.
United center -The home of the basketball team Chicago Bulls.
Great team, place and atmosphere!
And the winner is????
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