{"id":197,"date":"2013-05-07T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning_2013-2014\/?p=197"},"modified":"2013-05-07T13:39:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T13:39:40","slug":"current-11-joining-chicago-teaching-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/2013\/05\/07\/current-11-joining-chicago-teaching-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Current &#8217;11: Joining Chicago Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span><em>Adam Current &#8217;11<\/em> &#8211; Waking up today was unlike any other day of my life. Coming from a small town of 6,000&#8211;that\u2019s one stoplight <em>per<\/em> 6,000&#8211;I\u2019m not used to hearing the frequent roll of the above ground train.\u00a0 hank goodness for ear plugs! Where was I? <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>As I stepped out into the crisp air, dressed and ready to teach, the first thing I noticed was the sounds &#8212; not the buildings. In the cornfields, sound dissipates as it travels, unimpeded. Here, however, the skyscrapers themselves create a soundscape of metal and glass, as the sounds of traffic and people bounce like an echo chamber. As a sidenote, they trap smells as well, but that would constitute another post. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>School, school, I was supposed to blog about my school, right? Kenwood Academy is a 7-12 school located here in the humble realm of Chicago. Demographically, it is a complete reversal of the Fountain or Montgomery County areas. At those schools, the African American population is typically measured as numbers on your hand and not percentages. Today, I was fortunate enough to feel what it is like to be a minority. That may sound weird, but it is weird in a good way. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>The students were very friendly. In many ways, teenagers are teenagers, and the only major difference was the culture itself. Okay, that is a major difference. I\u2019m still not used to watching students go through a metal detector when walking in. As a native of a cornfield, that was a major shock. Otherwise, they are so friendly that I wonder <em>why<\/em> a metal detector is necessary. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span>I have to be honest that my mind is foggy.\u00a0 I am writing this at 10:07 local time, or 11:07 Indiana time, which means bed.\u00a0 (After student teaching, bed was typically 10:30 if I could help it.)\u00a0 Tonight we ate at a Polish Buffet, and I fell asleep on the bus ride back.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Current &#8217;11 &#8211; Waking up today was unlike any other day of my life. Coming from a small town of 6,000&#8211;that\u2019s one stoplight per 6,000&#8211;I\u2019m not used to hearing the frequent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/immersionlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}