So my american story began 4 years ago, during my year studying abroad in Boulder, Colorado. But I'm back with a vengeance, living and working in the snowy land of Wisconsin. Having only spent 1 day in Madison previously it is with a little trepidation that I sign my job offer, get a 3 year VISA and move to "America's dairyland". After a relatively stress free journey I land on a bitterly cold November afternoon. Immediately I face a decision that would decid...

Wednesday - Arriving in New York I took the cheapest flight to New York which unfortunately meant leaving denver at 1am and arriving in New York at 6am. This got me to new York just in time for rush hour. It was disorientating and scary but I got to my hotel OK at 9 30am. To compound my miseries the room wouldn't be ready until 2 pm so I walked around New York trying to stay awake. I fell asleep in Starbucks and the hotel lobby in quick succession, I looked li...

Sunday As it was a sunny day my friends decided it would be a good time to teach me to play Ultimate Frisbee. It was all going well until my competitive streak came through and I dived to catch. I made the catch and landed with an incredible roll to make the touchdown. Unfortunately I broke the strap of my watch in the process, this watch has been through an awful lot (broken at haunted houses, broken playing ultimate Frisbee, broken when grappling with my bro...

Friday I think I will have to use some of my birthday money to buy a new pair of jeans, the washing machine/tumble dryer combination has shrunk some jeans that were already tight enough. I feel like I've been vacuum-packed into my jeans. Saturday night After enduring many boring Saturday nights (the night life here is not good for students) we impulsively decided to go find some Henna and the various other ingredients so we could make our own Henna tattoos. ...

Thursday Cancer Bio test - pretty hard but I think I did ok (turns out I got 80%) Friday Although I am enjoying my Music in the Rock era class I do sometimes wonder why I'm there. We have a test on Monday so some people have started revising for it. Two of these people sat down in today's class before the lecture started and were quizzing each other on stuff that would come up on the test. The guy read "What is a riff?" to which the girl regurgitat...