Here is the Milwaukee Art museum. It is amazing, they have some very good stuff in there.

They have some attic red figure pots, from artists such as the Niobid painter. These are ancient greek pots from around 500 BC.

There is also a Monet, Waterloo Bridge - sunlight effect, and Andy Warhol's cans of Campbell's Tomato soup, and the one we all know, Andrew F. Wyeth.

This building is amazing, it is a most interesting building for an art musem, its like art in itself. I'm sure that is the idea, and it certainly succeeds.

This is Lake Michigan! its frozen over as far as you can see. Further out its a beautiful blue colour. This is the restaurant where we had dinner. It was the poshest restaurant I have been to in america, we were told it was cheap, and than we saw the price were around $20 but then realised that $20 isn't £20 and it was actually reasonably priced. And when it arrived, the food was very good, so value for money I think.

Here are the Liverpool girls. Carla, Majella and Sue. This is the formal lounge downstairs in the residence hall.

They are a good laugh and are full of ideas.

Tonight we went to Chilli's for tea and tomorrow we plan to go to the museum by the lake, even if it is -20C outside!! Tea was really good, real food for a change.

This is the snow that we had a few weeks ago. This time there's not so much snow but the temperature really is -4F so I'm pretty sure thats around the forecasted -17C.

Tonight we went out for tea. that is Carla, Majella, Sue, and Jess, and I. Jess is Sue's room mate, and she kindly drives us when we go out for tea, and she knows some good places to eat.

Hey

I've just been reading the forecast on the internet and this weekend is going to be very cold. Its going to be -17 C and feel like -28 C! have a look at the forecast on this website!!
http://wwwa.accuweather.com/forecast.asp?partner=accuweather&myadc=0&traveler=0&zipcode=53201&metric=1

amazing! its going to be a really cold weekend. And I have class on Saturday and we are planning to go to Milwaukee Zoo on Sunday, however the weather is still forecast to be freezing cold.

Tea tonight was interesting, they have a wide range of 'bars' here such as taco bar or breakfast bar, that was quite good, omelette cooked to order, another one which i missed for the sake of fish and chips was the pasta bar which was also a cooked to order hot pasta thing, basically you could choose, chicken, shrimp or tofu.
Anyhow, tonights was mashed potato bar, with chilli or cheese or mushroom gravy and chopped onion, grated cheese and sour cream if you wanted. They serve the potato and chilli, cheese or mushroom, and then you can help yourself to the onion cheese and sour cream. Thats what I had with the Mushroom gravy, it was ok but not brilliant. Food is very interesting here, sometimes its good and we are impressed, sometimes we are hideously dissapointed. Every night its anticipation, what will it be? Will it be something new that we haven't heard of, like sloppy joe (mince in sauce almost like bolognaise, but plainer and then they serve it in bread bun, so like wet burger) which was actually quite tasty. Or will it be something that we have heard of and we think we will like, and then be dreadfully dissapointed.
Last night's was steak, and I took a chance and had that, and it was very nice, it was tasty and tender, and it was a little bit pink, but not too much, I quite like steak a little bit pink, not too much but a little is fine.
The other week they did philly cheese steak for the day after the super bowl, and I some how managed to miss that. However, there is a place that sells philly cheese steak in the Southridge Mall, which is a little strange, but somehow, I'll have to try it before I go home.

Have work to finish now. More about the snow soon.

I've been in the US over a month now and the time has just flown by. I've done so much and met so many people. Mostly nice people. I've made some new friends. There are the three girls from Liverpool Hope University, they are all here doing teaching practice. Its funny but I seem to be fated to live with student teachers. They are all nice and are called Majella (she's irish), Carla, (she's from Grantham) and Sue (she's from Brombourgh). Sue told me that she had a blog to tell all of her friends at home what she's doing. Its a good idea because that way everyone can read at their leisure and I don't have to send lots of emails all the time.

The girls are really nice and have been gettin me involved with their trips out and thats really good for me because it means that I have people to go out and see things with. Two weeks ago we went to see the Milwaukee Bucks (basketball) game. We had $10 seats, right up at the top, and scary to look down, but the atmosphere was amazing, especially when everyone stood for the National Anthem. It took 2 and a half hours for them to play four 12 minute quarters. Amazing!

We went to the Mall last weekend, and this weekend has been pretty quiet. I have Class all day on Saturday 8am til 12noon and 1pm til 5pm! Classes last a long time here. They can go on til 10 pm every day.
I'm now looking for a short term job for a couple of weeks in the summer. Something to give me some experience in journalism, fingers crossed!

I have my first paper to write for my American Politics class. Where better in the world to study American Politics but in America? Also it will mean that I have an understanding of American politics which is useful for a journalist and for life generally.