Im already really sick of this cold weather. I know I've lived in Wisconsin basically my whole life but I don't think I will ever get used to this weather. Im so thankful that we have a bus that takes us to lower campus and back up so I don't alway have to face the cold weather. But for the most part you can't get out of it, like when I have to walk to the caf, or walking from building to building on lower campus. I had to buy a winter jacket because I never had a good one during high school because the farthest you had to walk outside was form your car in the parking lot to the building and that wasn't that far. I just wish I lived somewhere where it was warm all the time.

This weekend I went to the blugold hockey games. Hockey is one of my favorite sports to watch and its great that we have a pretty good team. I had a really good high school team too, so I was happy that our team now is just as good. It kinda sucked getting to the game though because they don't have a shuttle or anything from the dorms so on Friday we walked there and on Saturday we walked to Water street and took the bus there but had to walk home. It was all worth it though because the games were really fun.

This weekend my boyfriend came to visit me for the first time. I hadn't seen him in over two months so I was really happy that he could make it. He goes to University of Minnesota so the difference is pretty big in terms of size of the campus. I showed him around and he agreed that our campus is really pretty. I made him walk the hill a couple times too, and he thinks he's lucky he doesn't have to deal with that everyday. He got to meet all my friends I've made here and they got along with him really well so I was happy about that. It sucks going from seeing him almost everyday to seeing him every two months, but its gotten a lot easier sense the beginning of the year. I'm hoping he can come visit again soon.

On Tuesday I went to the forum that Bob Harris spoke at. I thought that it was very interesting. First he talked about how everyone and everything in the world isn't as scary as the news portrays it to be. He talked about how everyone he encountered on his travels treated him like an old friend, and even when he was in the bad parts of a city someone was there too help him. Then he talked about his old job, working for Forbes and being able to stay in the most expensive hotels in the world. He thought that he shouldn't have this opportunity when the people in the city that the hotels are in are very poor but hard working. He wanted to help them out but he didn't know how. Then he heard about a website called Kiva, where you can give a $25 loan to someone who is struggling to start up their business somewhere in a poorer country. He started giving out loans and then visiting the people he gave the loans too to see how they were doing. Almost all of the people he gave loans too were getting out of their struggle and starting to make a profit that they could live on. I really enjoyed hearing about his outlook on life and the people around the world. Its true that the news makes the world seem like such a scary place to be in, but in reality its not as bad as we think.