Wrap...Sari Tummy

I had a wrap for lunch, I go to this wrap place on Wells. I love the wrap, I love the wrap because it is oh so delicious, it’s loaded with veggies, it’s low carb and low calorie. How can you not love the wrap?

My problem is, I’m such a spaz and I’m so hyper today, that I ate my wrap in about 2 seconds and I feel like I’m going bood all over my desk.

Lovely beginning yes?

Class this week was great, we learned basically, how to give a tour. How to connect buildings, how to scale things down, how to deal with a drunk guy who thinks Millennium Park is awesome and would love to tell your group why.

Then we went on a tour with an actual current docent. We have to learn 2 tours, we all learn the Modern Skyscrapers tour, and then we learn one of our choosing. It’s either Historic Skyscrapers or the Culture & Commerce tour. I’m learning the latter and I’m glad I picked this one. It’s all Field and Palmer and Sullivan and Burnham and the fair and the boosters and all that good stuff I like.

So we took the tour on Saturday with a current docent and it was fascinating! To listen to what she picked to talk about, how she talked, being critical of her tour at the same time as learning from it. Honestly, I was slightly bored. I don’t know if that was the docent, or the fact that now I know a lot of this information, but I think it was really a bit of both.

But now this week, we’re loaded up with homework. I have to do 4 building descriptions, which are fairly complicated and then we’ve each been given a chunk of our tour that we will actually be doing on Saturday! I have to write an introduction and be prepared to discuss Palmer House, Development of State Street, Art Institute and the Worlds Fair, the Chicago building (do you even know what building this is? I DO!) and do the 4 building descriptions.

I am overwhelmed, but feel confident in my ability to give a tour. I think my tours are going to rock. They warn us about the use of humor and not to go too far. But humor is only one of my awesome things, I think my sense of the dramatic is going to take me very far.

I think I should dress up like Bertha Honore Palmer….that might help.