Hello everyone! Another week has gone by.. Life moves pretty fast in Switzerland (the weekends especially.....) Weirdly enough there are now only THREE weeks left until the next vacation, which is two weeks long. I can't believe sometimes that everything happens so quickly.
For the Easter vacation I have some smallish plans.. During the first week, Andréanne and I purchased day passes from the commune for only thirty francs each which will allow us to travel unlimitedly the whole day (though the commune can only give out three each day, I think, so you really have to plan ahead.) We are going to go to Lucerne and maybe Bienne, two smaller Swiss cities that are really pretty but I might otherwise not see (the train tickets are really expensive since they aren't on the main Zürich-Berne-Fribourg-Lausanne-Geneva line, and they're kind of out of the way.)
Obviously I'll be celebrating Easter with my host family (the chocolate bunnies that are already in the grocery stores do, by the way, trump anything I've seen before in the US in size and quality.) During the second week of vacation I think I am going for three days to Geneva and staying two nights in a hostel. Sakshi is coming with me the first day but then leaving since she doesn't want to stay overnight. Plus, she's already spent a lot of time in Geneva since she came to Switzerland with her family last year, before she came on exchange, and she's already gone a few times this year. I'll probably try to meet up with the other American students (there are three girls who live in/near Geneva) and then otherwise just see the main sights and museums.
So, anyway, here's a recap of what I did this last week...
Monday was boring and average.. we really didn't do anything worth writing about.
Tuesday was my first real time doing gym for quite a long while.. we had to run for twelve minutes. That was more tiring than it usually would be, and my pace was slower than usual, but I didn't have to stop to walk or anything so that's good. After the running we practiced our gymnastics routine, which we ended up filming at the end of the hour. I think I did like two somersaults on the mat plus one from the trampoline.. all in all it was super easy and as my host sister said, our routine "wasn't at all good, but it was original."
Wednesday was also boring, with nothing of consequence taking place.
Thursday we got back our biology tests, and I got a 4.3 (out of 6.) I was quite happy with that! My host sister got 3.9, so I felt kind of bad, but it didn't really matter to her. It's true that I really did study (with all of my ridiculous amounts of study hall, it would almost probably look bad if I didn't get a better note than some of the others once in a long long while.) Anyway it doesn't matter at all if I get a good grade or not in biology, since I've already got the credit since I took it in the US, but it's still nice to know that I CAN get a good grade on a biology test in French. This week we had gym on Thursday (instead of economy which we have every other week) and we played volleyball. It was quite entertaining.. at the beginning we did some drills and then split into teams and played matches.
Friday was rad in a very boring, normal, Friday sort of way.
Saturday was interesting! I ate lunch early, around 11:15, and then went to Fribourg on the bus and then the train. I bought some items I needed and drank a coffee, then met Sakshi at the train station. We went to see Slumdog Millionaire at this tiny theatre that played it in the original version (not dubbed) which was cool. I thought the movie was good but not as great as it was hyped up to be.. still worth seeing and everything, just not amazing. After the movie we rushed over to catch a bus to Sakshi's house. That evening we watched Shrek 2 (the movie choice over there was pretty slim) and then went to bed.
Today I woke up and we ate brunch around 11 with Sakshi's host family. I got home from their house around four. The usual cousins and close family had come over for lunch and they were still here when I got here. I actually arrived just in time for dessert. Afterwards we played cards and I sort of helped Thomas, one of the cousins, put together a lego thing. Everyone left around 6:30, and now I am typing this!
Nothing exciting's coming up this week, though I'm hoping I can go get a much-needed haircut next weekend.
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3 comments:
haha, i like your use of the word rad! did i mention that i love you?! cuz i do!!! -mikayla
Hi Sweetie, has the snow begun melting there? A week ago here the high was -2 F. and now it is in the 60's - my Iris' are coming up and I fear they will soon regret it. What fun plans you have for your next (another!) break. And congrats on doing so well on your Bio exam - you're right, it's just nice to know that you CAN do it in French! I suspect the size, quality and variety of chocolate lapins there will help make Easter away from home more enjoyable. You'll have to let us know if there are other corny customs that we share with the Swiss - for instance, I can't quite picture colored plastic grass being a tradition in such an eco-conscious country, but one never knows what strange ideas cross the Atlantic, let alone on which side they originated (i.e., which came first, the chicken or the - in this case, dyed and hard boiled - egg?). Thanks for blogging about your week; reading about yours is always a highlight of mine! I love and miss YOU, XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX, Aunt Amy
RUTHIE STYLSIES! When do you get back from the land of swiss cheese. Im in school at the moment with Claire Nelson and Emma Olson supposedly doing our history about the red scare. Well Claire is doing the work for the most part while I'm checking my email and looking at your blog and Emma is just sitting there reading what I'm writing and correcting my spelling issues. BYE BYE MY LOVE!
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