Abigaël's Portfolio

Quarantine, a word that's usage has quickly sparked drastically in the past few months. I would never have predicted I would be spending the last part of my Freshman year in College back home with my parents, yet, I like many, adapted to the new normal. Although the drastic change brought with it much difficulty, some good came from it. For example, I was granted quality time with my family that I would not have received had COVID not hit.  One thing I have come to appreciate being back home is the weekly walk my family and I would take around our neighborhood. Here are a few highlights of those walks. Neighbors put out signs on their lawn to commemorate Health Care Workers, 2020 Graduating Students, and Birthdays. My neighborhood community sent out a newsletter suggesting that people put out stuffed animals on their windows for the kids to scavage since many summer activities were canceled at the time. These quarantine walks also brought forth the opportunity to spot new hidden ge

Halloween is a holiday on the last day of October that occurs yearly. Although everyone has their own traditions, it is common to find people and houses dressed up in costumes and or Halloween themed decorations including, pumpkins, candy, scary characters like witches, skeletons, or zombies. On the day of Halloween 2019, I walked around the University of Chicago Campus to places such as The Regenstein Library, The Cathy Dining Hall and the Renee-Granville Grossman Dorm. In the evening I went to Harper Street in Hyde Park. Harper Street has a reputation of going all out for Halloween. People from all over the Hyde Park neighborhood will come not only to go Trick-Or-Treating but also to see the crazy decorations the houses on that street put up.  Decorations displayed on houses at Harper Street, Hyde Park. A student dressed as a scarecrow and a student dressed as a bumble-bee socializes with friends at the Cathey Dining Commons. Disguis

Hyde Park is a neighborhood on the South side of Chicago. To anyone who researches the name in Google or looks at a description of Hyde Park on a map, they might read something along the lines of this: "Culturally diverse Hyde Park is home to the picturesque University of Chicago campus and the Frederick C. Robbie House, a Frank Lloyd Wright work. Summer crowds head to 57th Street Beach, while the former Palace of the Fine Arts, built for the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893, is now home to the Museum of Science and Industry. Founded in 1939, the Hyde Park Art Center exhibits contemporary works."     Although Hyde Park might be known for its rich history and famous locations, everyone has a different association with it whether they have lived in Hyde Park their whole life or just come down occasionally for required events such as school. To some, it is Lake Michigan and the Point. To others, it is the antique Medici Bakery to which they often will go to grab ice-