Break

Hello everyone! I am back from break feeling relaxed, refreshed, and ready to go….sort of. My friend Jie, also a sophomore here, came home with me (a week is not quite enough time to go back to China), and my mom had lots of fun taking her to House on the Rock (a weird Wisconsin tourist trap consisting of an assortment of odd collections and a house built into a the face of what we Wisconsinites define as a cliff). We also went to this family owned Chinese restaurant and Jie had tons of fun ordering and talking to the owners in Chinese, they even joined us for part of the meal.


We rented a lot of movies and vegged out on the couch for most of the week. My favorite movie we rented was called “Keeping Mum” and stared Rowan Atkinson and Maggie Smith. It was hilarious, and if you like British comedies you should definitely see this one. I don’t want to give away the not so subtle twist, but the basic plot consist of a homicidal crazy woman who just wants to do what is best for the people she loves. It is absolutely insanely good!

I have not had time to take my photos off of my camera (I took 322), so I can not yet accurately depict the huge pumpkin my mother bought at a farm off of the highway, the dorm sized jack-O-Lantern Jie carved at a party my Madison friends threw, or the oddities displayed at House on the Rock. These stories will all have to wait for my next post.