First serious lecture of the seminar. Let's talk about political philosophy, is America democratic? Is there Justice in America? What do we understand by Justice?
Professor Howard has led us through an interesting path covering the highlights of the thoughts of Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and Adam Smith. Weaving concepts and interrelating them all with the current sociopolitical American situation, debate has come up immediately with some interesting points and some predictable answers, I must say. Not familiarised with this debate system (a bit messy, from my point of view) I've preferred to listen and be silent (could you believe it?) so that I can acquire a perfect pre knowledge of what's going on in this seminar before actually participate really actively...
Back home and quick lunch before departing for dock number 1 on the river. Disappointingly enough it was raining cats and dogs, and taking a couple of buses ended up being sort of a dangerous adventure we happily fulfilled...an architectural tour on the river was meant to be really eye catching, and it'd have been so if it hadn't been raining heavily from beginning to end. Art deco architecture, familiar names like Ricardo Bofill or Santiago Calatrava, popular facades like the Chicago Tribune one, funny examples of architectural copies from Europe like the Wrigley's building (sorry, Neil, I can't see my lovely Giralda there yet...) are some of the ingredients of a tour that I'm sure it's worth enjoying with better weather.
Going back to UIC campus on two more buses has turned out to be little less than a battle for survival...heavy rain and Chicago locals struggling for getting onto those characteristic buses surrounded by a bunch of foreigners yelling out loud in order to get a drier location has been terrible, I must admit...
Back to UIC, adorable Manto from Italy has decided she's gonna take care of some of us with her delicious pasta dishes, so we try our best buying wine, doing the washing up and giving mutual company to celebrate a yummy dinner where Mark, my dear flatmate from Japan, has become a star thanks to his intelligent sense of humour and his endless anecdotes about peculiarities on Japanese culture.
Once I'm just about to finish this post, I realize there's so much to read for my lectures and so little time that I must say bye for now.
A quick message for my friend Miguel: lo siento majeton, pero se supone que tengo que escribir en extranjero para justificar mi estancia, no? de todos modos sigo tan alambicado y arboreo como ya sabes...asi que no creo que fueras a disfrutarlo especialmente jejeje. Un abrazo y gracias por todo, tu ya sabes...pensare en ti en el Monte Rushmore.
That's all for now. See you soon folks!
Javier Barbero
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