Monday 15th - Visit to IMSA

So today we met at Caribou Coffee at 7.45 and headed off to see IMSA Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy or something like that for gifted children. Very very cool slick institution. I spoke to the head of Student Life all about the residential side of the halls and most importantly spent time with their Director of Development - very cool. Their school is only 22 years old, and so oldest alumni is only late thirties but the students are well placed into the universities here including the Ivy League colleges so their alumni are already doing amazing things.
Visit the GSE Team Blog site for some more info on our site visit, but the other highlight was meeting Dr Leon Leddderman a Nobel prize winner. He met Albert Einstein when he was younger, he said it was a long time ago. In fact he said he was so old he can remember when the Dead Sea was the Sick Sea!!

Then on way home Cheryl and i got to see Fermilab pictured below. Centre for national acccelerator laboratory of something like that ... sends those neuron thingees round at high speed in a four mile radius in the 1970's like what they're doing in switzerland on a bigger scale. Anyway they ahve a prarie reconstruction thingee wiht buffalo too and that was also cool. Ugly beasts though they may be.





Anyway i was home by 5.0 and Lucy (host mother) and i went for a walk around the neighbourhood and here are some of the houses including a Frank Lloyd Wright one around the corner!!!!