World Fest Flag Ceremony

So, I'm from Kenosha County, and I get a lot of folks for tours that are from the area, or from Wisconsin, or from the states, that ask about our student population. If you're like me, and from the county, you might feel that attending Parkside will be just like high school - and you'll know everyone there. You might be thinking, "I've got to get out of here!" You might even think about traveling abroad.

Well, I know I've said it before, but one thing I love about UW-P is that it doesn't feel like the same old-high-school-thang. We have tremendous diversity, part of that being out international student population. (I blame our awesome soccer team!) :) We have students from around the globe and tons of activities centered with an international concept. We have an international house, Parkside International Club (PIC), a study abroad program, and an exchange program with our sister schools in Germany and Italy.

Every spring we have World Fest Week, and the campus is almost completely transformed! Every year we kick it off with a Flag Ceremony, to honor the numerous countries represented in our student population. This year I started off helping with the flag of Germany, with my soror Tracy, but then ended up carrying the American Flag at the front! Some of my sorors carried the the flag of their home country, Mexico.

It was a great week full of education, fun, and tasty food!!!

Chill'n in Milwaukee

So these pictures were from a little while ago, but sometimes it takes me a little while to get stuff up here. I haven't really talked about the location of Parkside, (besides K-Town and Racilla ... what?!? what!?!?), so let me touch on Mil-Town for a sec.

Milwaukee is only a 30 minute drive from UW-Parkside. If you're not from the area, Milwaukee's pretty big stuff. That's where the Rave and a couple of other concert locations are, so it's really nice to have within driving distance. Even before I went to UW-P, I was driving up to Milwaukee for concerts. I've seen everyone from Tool, Mike Patton, Les Claypool, NIN, and even local bands from Racine/Kenosha up there!

Recently, I went up and visited some of my sorority sisters who actually graduated from UW-Whitewater in the 1990's. Even thought the chapter at UW-W is no longer active, there are still a lot of Z-Chi's in the area, so it really gives me a scope of our history. Anywho ... the night-life in Milwaukee is fun too! We went to some fancy resturaunt, of which the name escapes me, and a couple of other pretty hot places too! I definitely suggest a drive up there: it is well worth it!