MEET KARI GALEN!

Hi! My name is Kari Galen. I am a sophomore middle (#13) from Aurora, IL, about an hour away from Chicago. I am majoring in Sport Management. Maybe when I graduate I can move back home to Chicago and work for one of the professional sports teams there (maybe the Hawks??!) which would be really awesome. My favorite food has always been anything Mexican, which means I love love love El Zarape! I also love Italian, especially Olive Garden! If I had to pick a favorite movie, I'm not sure what I'd pick...there's way too many! I love romance and comedies though. Recently, I've developed an obsession with country music and really like Lady Antebellum. I could listen to some of those songs on repeat all day! My favorite summertime activity is probably just being outside in my backyard. Whenever it's nice outside, my family and I eat dinner out there. I also love to lay out and tan, who doesn't?! I also love visiting the city. I recently went with my friend Matt from BG, and we went on a boat tour on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, went to Navy pier, saw Buckingham fountain (it's huge!), and visited Millennium park (where the big silver bean is, there's a picture of me by the bean above) He also had his first experience eating a Chicago style deep dish pizza! It was a lot of fun. I'm hoping to get back down there to spend some time at the beach and shop down Michigan Avenue (hello, 3-story Forever 21!) with some of my old friends from high school before the summer is over. The best present I've ever gotten, hmmm....I'd probably have to say the gifts my mom sent in the mail to me for Christmas and Valentine's Day. I love little sentimental gifts and of course love getting packages at school! I also have a little sister named Hannah, and she is 9 years old. I love all the little gifts she makes for me and I hang them up in my dorm room! If I could go anywhere in the world, I would go somewhere in Europe, maybe Italy or Greece.

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"The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall."

-Vince Lombardi