Blogs from Wisconsin, United States, North America - page 54

From Seattle to Phoenix to Madison this week. Training this coming week in Chicago area, meant time to fly into Madison - visit Zoe and friends - plus be a bit of a tourist in where I once called home. I arrived in to MSN late, and after upgrading to a Subaru Outback rental car - another driver decided to test the side air bags and see if Subaru's safety claims were true at my disposal. The other driver ran a red light and t-boned me as I was turning left. I am sure her night went worse than mine after she appeared to fail the sobriety test and did a breathalizer. Saturday started out well with Monty's blue plate, getting Zoe and spending the day hanging with the worlds greatest dog. Madison is known for ... read more

Having googled a "study abroad korea blog", I stumbled upon one of the bloggers at this site. So many other bloggers who are traveling in Korea, I can find some way to spend the last seven days before I leave. Leaving through airplane has me worried. I suppose I'm always the follower, not the leader, so to guide myself through the airports will be the first of my challenges :) What I have packed is 6 days worth of clothing for both winter and summer; all in one bulging suitcase. Then there's my empty backpack... having taken out all of my school supplies, it sure looks like it needs something put in there. School has finished, and so I check my grades online everyday in fear of how I've done. Although I've improved vastly from my ... read more

Packing really stinks. i know i will pack to much. or not enough. getting my money situation settled. making sure bills get paid while im gone. getting copies made of important things, just incase....(knock on wood). Tonight! im sooo excitied to go to Lucilles piano bar for a little going away thing!!! its gonna be crazy! four days left till i leave. i just can't believe its already here. seriously. this is insane.... read more

Oh wait...I mean A LOT. Sarah and I drove through 6 hours of rain today, starting as a heavey mist then turning into an angry downpour. Upon re-entering the state of Wisconsin, lightning lit up the cloudy night sky for a full 3 seconds. We were left speechless, and...well, I nearly peed myself. I am noticing the popularity of water parks in the midwest. Big, huge complicated resorts that resemble those transluscent hamster tubes you can buy at PETCO and put together yourself litter the countryside. The plains must be BANGIN' during the summer!! :D Our two performances of Mozart today went extremely well. This 21 minute aerobic work-out is by far one of my favorite plays to have ever performed. It's commedia del arte style, which is a traditional Italian form of theatre. I love ... read more

I guess I can thank an incredibly long break to help me prepare, at least emotionally, for this trip. There's obviously packing left to do, it's me afterall. I've made sure that I enough contacts, gummi bears, excitement and clothing to avoid any major obstacles (blindness, starvation, boredom, etc) ;) I'm all set though to be completely immersed in Chilean life and hopefully make/strengthen some great friendships and travel through beautiful South America. I feel like I have been talking about Chile forever, especially after our Valenzuela class last semester. Still a little hard to believe I'm leaving today! A few of us are meeting up in Dallas before we all arrive in Santiago on Monday morning. We'll drop off most of our stuff at the Maryknoll House in Rabones before driving up to Linares for ... read more