Mad-Town

My first trip of 2o1o was a trip to Madison which is Wisconsin’s capital city. Madison is known as a college town as there are so many students there. I went for the whole weekend; I visited a friend that I met in Milwaukee. We went and saw the Capitol building, which is very beautiful. We also went to a farmers market where they had beef jerky that wasn’t smoked or oily so it ALMOST tasted like biltong! Yum! We also went out to a few of the local bars, where I met so many more students. Everything is really close together (as I said it’s a college town, so everything is geared towards them) We walked everywhere, which is totally fine…if there isn’t two feet of snow on the ground plus two frozen lakes close by! Needless to say we would “suit up” and ran to our destination! I had a great weekend with Kevin, who is actually the first ‘American’ friend that I made (on the 4^th of July)

The Capitol Building, Madison, WI

A friend of mine (Monique) who was in her 2^nd year when I arrived completed her au pair year in January. We decided as she had never been out with the girls we had to take her out and show her the town, she was about to leave! We did a surprise party on the Friday night (at Hooters) haha so we were stared at by all the male patrons there. 

Birthday girls and Monique at Hooters

The Saturday night was spent at one of our favourite places to go dancing…Buckheads Saloon! She had a great time as did we, of course! When we go out we always get people to guess where we are from…which can be extremely funny! (Since it’s usually Germans, South Africans, Swedes, Norwegians, Columbians, French, and Brazilians…etc) Nobody can ever guess where I’m from but they usually say Britain (followed by some very badly executed British statement) or Australia…so I have started let them guess the continent. That is just as funny! I have been asked if I’m from the continent of Russia??!! Really! Or when people guess “all” the continents (forgetting Africa) they say well that’s all of them so where ARE you from? Most people would believe me more if I said I was from Asia rather than Africa! (Although once they get Africa, South Africa is ALWAYS the next guess)

Monique, Miriam, Arati, Fernanda and I at Buckheads