We are en flight to LAX

Monday, 3:30pm

We are en flight to LAX and it’s amazing to look back and realize that it took 9 lunch sales, 2 Stateline Turnaround trips, 2 Raffles and a whole lotta planning to get our Bosco Boys to Chicago! How can it be over so soon? Everyday presented many learning opportunities- both within and outside the museums. The boys realized how much material we’ve covered this year in class and how art is not something that is merely found in a textbook or on a museum wall. Chicago was the perfect place to experience public art, historical architecture and cutting edge art.

Our boys experienced a trip that spoke to all of their senses: we ate great food (Garrett’s Popcorn, Chicago Pizza, Chicago hotdogs, Saturday’s fine dinner at Riva and Sunday’s Culminating dinner at the Grand Lux Café are all shared meals that I know they won’t soon forget); saw and reacted to great masterpieces; felt the sheer awesomeness of the impressive buildings of Chicago; interacted and bonded at the public sculptures that make the city famous: the reflective “Bean” and the giant Picasso sculpture (I wonder what Picasso thinks about people using his sculpture as a modern slide? This is what I know: that our boys know great art when they see it and that the “children” within them recognize a once in-a-lifetime opportunity when they see it!).

Above all, our boys learned how to travel together, look out for one another and help each other get through long (but fun) days. It was gratifying to see a class made up of many small groups of friends break down its barriers and become a group of brothers. I am proud to have shared this experience with these young men. And I am very proud of these students who represented our Bosco Family so favorably throughout our Chicago trip.

9:39pm
We’ve arrived home safely! It was great to see the excited parents picking up their boys. It was a great trip! My heartfelt message to this group of boys: I would travel again, anytime with this same group of boys! Thank you for such a great trip!

Mrs. Perez-Gerhart