{"id":6027,"date":"2024-07-16T22:26:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T22:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2024-07-25T19:21:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T19:21:13","slug":"listen-cherubs-share-memories-on-the-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/07\/listen-cherubs-share-memories-on-the-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"LISTEN: Cherubs share memories on the shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Cherubs share memories on the shore by Medill Cherubs\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1873465110&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=800\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[MUSIC]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From street reacts, to Fourth of July articles, to trend stories, cherubs have found themselves consistently cramming interviews and \u201clocking in\u201d almost every day. But many have found a safe haven to relax amidst the chaos \u2014 the beach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[PEOPLE PLAYING ON THE BEACH, WAVES]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jordan Balousek from Mercer Island, Washington, is a self-proclaimed \u201cavid beach goer.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JORDAN BALOUSEK: I go to the beach every night if we have time, or four to five days a week, sometimes three if we&#8217;re busy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She first discovered the beach doing what cherubs do \u2014 work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JORDAN: So I went to the beach they took us on for the all-day story and I sat between some boats and I responded to some college emails. And I was all alone so it was kind of depressing but it was really pretty, and it was gorgeous, so I took a bunch of pictures.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The beach isn\u2019t just a place for scenery and sightseeing. For Jordan and many other energetic cherubs, it\u2019s a place to destress and have fun through exercising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JORDAN: I like playing rondo on the beach.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rondo, otherwise known as monkey in the middle or keep away, is when players form a circle around one to three people, and throw around a ball while keeping it away from those in the circle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JORDAN: Playing rondo on the beach has been awesome, at one point we got like 20 people to play, which is super cool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Besides a friendly game of rondo, another, slightly higher stakes sport, claims a spot as one of the more popular beach activities \u2014 football, which became a staple during the cherubs\u2019 first week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JACK SPECTOR: We\u2019ve been playing ever since, that&#8217;s gotten pretty competitive, and keeping score, and especially on the beach, you know, it\u2019s a soft ground, and people will push and fall and dive, it gets pretty intense sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s Jack Spector from Washington DC, who\u2019s also an avid beachgoer. His adoration for sports on the shore started on one of his first days as a cherub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JACK: We went in the water, which was freezing cold, so to survive that we stood about ten feet in on the sand and just sprinted into the water as far as we could until we fell down, and we did that a couple times, which did not make it any less cold, but it was fun, and I guess the adrenaline helped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For cherubs who prefer to stay away from sweating, tanning is another popular option. That\u2019s how Madison Kane from Long Island, New York, spends her time at the beach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MADISON KANE: I really like to just sit in the sun and listen to music. Finding a piece of relaxation amongst the camaraderie that a beach entails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tanning doesn\u2019t come without its costs, though. Madison, who sunburns easily, once had to convince the CVS on campus to stay open at night so she could buy aloe for her burns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MADISON: I don\u2019t know I guess I was laying down on my back for an hour, finishing up my feature story, and a couple hours later when I guess the sun tan developed, I was shocked to see that my back was bright red. But it was really fun and it was something that I did with my friends, so it\u2019s always about not what you do but who you\u2019re with in my opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, the cherubs\u2019 beloved beach goes beyond just day-to-day relaxation. It\u2019s a way for students to come together and bond through shared experiences, to learn and to have fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MADISON: We kind of get the best of both worlds, because we can incorporate our experiences as journalists on the beach, and vice versa, just kind of immersing ourselves in every aspect Northwestern has to offer. So I\u2019d definitely say that it has played a big, big role in my time here as a cherub.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the cherubs, I\u2019m Olivia Ma from Fremont, California, signing off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[MUSIC]<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Music by Lee Rosevere.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cherubs of 2024 have created their own ways to have fun, both sport and sedentary, on Northwestern\u2019s beloved Lake Michigan beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":6191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[333,14],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[335],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-featured-story","category-city"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":335,"user_id":145,"is_guest":0,"slug":"oliviama","display_name":"Olivia Ma","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/284efae91571dcfa7f09d8761ce0d803871bcbae724742924cdd1e83ec87c1ec?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Ma","first_name":"Olivia","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6621,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions\/6621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cherubs.medill.northwestern.edu\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}