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Morning at the John Hancock Center
Written by: Alex Liu Edited by: Karen Chiu
A group of Project: VISION students experienced a great thing at the John Hancock Center on February 28th.
At an annual event called Hustle
Up the Hancock, nine of us
offered our time and strength
to encourage the runners who
raced up the Hancock tower for
the Respiratory Health Association
of Metropolitan Chicago to
help raise funds for lung disease
research, advocacy, and
education.
I have to be honest; the
day started out really boring,
and plus we all woke up
around five in the morning, so
we were all a little cranky. Our
group was split into two- one
for goody bag distribution and
the other for food distribution.
As the day went on, things got more fun; we began
to think of our job as a game of
who can get more bags out. We
met many of the 4,000 runners
that raced up the Hancock
when they stopped by at our
booth. Our day ended at about
ten o’clock.
Our group decided
to explore a little bit. We got in
the elevator for an extremely
fast and smooth ride. By the
looks of everyone’s faces and
the way they clasped their ears,
I could tell it was a pretty painful
ride up to the top. However,
when we got up there, the view
was amazing; there were tall buildings amongst lots of
shorter ones as well, and as a
result, we could see far into the
horizon and far into the river.
The view itself was worth it!
We then all met for a leisurely
lunch, where we chatted for a
long while.
All in all, the day was
great experience; it was my first
time visiting the Hancock
building, and it was a great way
to meet and socialize with new
people. I am glad I took the
initiative to volunteer and experience
this wonderful day
with Project: VISION. -Alex Liu
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