Daniel Okret, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Post #3: The Fall, Thanksgiving and finals
Hi y’all,
It is starting to get cold in Madison! And with the cold come the most beautiful season in the Midwest, the Fall! The trees slowly start changing colour until there is an astonishing mix of yellow, red and brown. This creates a fairy tail like scenario which is ideal to hike and be outside before the real cold arrives. One of the must do’s during this season is go to the zoo! There is an awesome zoo in Madison which has all kinds of interesting animals like tigers, lions and even polar bears. And the best part is, its free! So the zoo also became one of my favourite running routes.
During the month of November there is only one thing in everyone’s mind. That is how long until Thanksgiving. This is the holiday where the whole family gets together, eats as much turkey as possible and watches American Football. As I mentioned before, I have family living in Chicago so I spent Thanksgiving with them. There were two things that amazed me about this holiday. First of all is the amount of food there is. It is exactly as in the movies. The second one was the warmth and cosines everywhere. I found it very similar to the Christmas feeling in the Netherlands.
After Thanksgiving eve, which is always on a Thursday, some friends and I rented a nice apartment in the Loop (centre of Chicago) and spent the weekend there. The city is very lively and has beautiful architecture. It is amazing to just walk around and see what’s going on. On one of those walks we went into a musical theatre to see what was playing and ended up going to an incredible Sherlock Holmes show.
The weeks after Thanksgiving are really busy. I was trying to enjoy the last part of my stay as much as possible while finals were getting closer. So the balance between fun and studying was leaning more and more towards studying. However, that is the same for everyone else so it isn’t that bad.
That’s all for now folks!
Cheers
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