Living Up North, WI

Well since I am having such a boring day I have decided to blog a little earlier than normal and I might even blog again later if I am still bored so that might be fun!!!!

So I kinda have nothing exciting to share about today either so I accidentally slept through my first class and then there were only 10 people in my English class which made it a little better kidding it was no different

Also today my Internet has been acting really strangely it loads things weird and it is kinda hard to explain but it is really annoying me a lot also while I am typing this up every single word I have typed so far has a red line under it meaning that I have spelled it wrong and I am positive that most if not all of these words are spelled correctly woah okay so I just used spell check and now everything is all good again!!!! WOHOOOO!!!!!!


So living Up North I have had some really strange experiences and have learned some new things that I would like to share...

Traffic
These people have no concept of actual traffic because they have never actually driven in a big city like Milwaukee (which is not even that big of a city) I once tried to explain traffic in Milwaukee vs. traffic in Kimberly once to my roommate the conversation went something like this
Roommate: Gosh I do not want to drive home right now because it is rush hour and there will be a lot of traffic and I hate driving in traffic
Me: yeah I hate traffic too
Roommate: Yeah once I left my house for school five minutes late and there was so much traffic that I arrived at school five minutes late
Me: Yeah, I find that the traffic here is not all that bad once I left for school five minutes late and got there 15 minutes late because of traffic
Roommate: Well that is not that bad I mean once I went out in rush hour and there were about 10 cars stopped at the light.
Me: Oh that is really bad

Dressing Up
My parents recently attended a wedding of one of my cousins and this is true everyone was wearing jeans and t-shirts. I find this disgusting. Now I am just going to say that if anyone were to show up to my wedding dressed inappropriately I would not let them in and I do not care who you are. Yeah I am going to be a bridezilla!

Ketchup
I am not sure if this is really an Up North thing but these kids put ketchup on everything that they possibly could it is GROSS

Weather
One day the feels like temp. Was -40 and there were still people wearing shorts which was insane

Hunting
Hunting season is insane up here everyone hunts I am not even kidding everyone skipped classes on the first day of the season and went hunting hahaha it was crazy

Madison
So some kids in one of my education class went to Madison for Halloween and described the city as big and scary. They went out to party in the streets but went back into their hotel room because there were just too many people hahahaha seriously?

Packers
Now I know that the Packers are big in the whole state but something about being in Green Bay during the season gives you an idea of the whole obsession. I once went to the mall with my aunt during a game and first of all no one was at the mall because of the game there were maybe 75 people at the mall and all of them were wearing packer jerseys

Brett Farve
The god of the packers retired this year and many people on campus were suicidal over this and I was really worried. First of all when it was announced I was in my 8:00 class and when I got to my 9:00 I thought that something really serious had happened. People were coming into class saying things like “I never thought this day would come” “Today is the day the world is going to cry” (one girl really said this and I was kinda afraid to find out what happened) also they said “I don’t know what I can do now” “This can not really be happening” I was really frightened then a kid walked in with a Farve jersey on and he was like I have been crying ever since I found out he was going to retire I was immediately relieved that there was not actually a national disaster or something like that.

Language is a whole other topic that I am saving for later when I have nothing else to say


~Natasha