Wochenende & stuff

I have been here for almost 2 and a half weeks now. It still doesn't seem real that I will be living here for 11 more months, although, I am enjoying myself! When the days are gray, and if I sit in my room and ponder, a lot of me is sad to be away from you all. Then, I realize to be happy and give thanks for being here, in such a wonderful place. To grasp every moment of it, and relax.  

These past couple of days I have been going about to a few different places. I went to the town of ...

Winterthur . The Entrance.

For a music Festival, just the other day with other exchange students from my language school. It was a great day, and I enjoyed the music a lot. On a random note, it is incredibly impossible to find a public bathroom here in Switzerland, and if you want to use a toilet, you have to pay 2 franks to enter the bathroom stall. It is pretty ridiculous. I had to go really badly and I could find a bathroom. Finally, my Indian friend Charack told me that he saw outhouses at the festival.. after looking around for awhile. I was thankful. Another random note, many many people smokes cigarettes here. 

Swiss Hip hop music

During the weekend, I went to a 820th year Festival celebration for the town of Feslispoc (wrong spelling). My next door neighbor Luana invited me to go with another girl that lives in my neighborhood, Vanessa. It wasn't so, eh, exciting to say the least, so we sat down and listened to the band play... but soon enough we got bored, so we took the bus to McDonalds and ordered some ice cream. My first and probably last visit to McDonalds on my stay here in Switzerland. It is VERY expensive... like 3.50 Franks for a little icecream. It was fun though, we spoke german together and laughed a lot. My German skills are coming along.. my host family only speaks to me in German and I can sorta- ish understand what they say to me and what they talk about. But is makes me so excited when I can actually reply!!! Such a great feeling. 

Luana, Vanessa, & I at the fest

On Sunday my host father took me on his motorcycle and we rode around to Zug (which is a beautiful, beeeeautiful town by a lake, I really want to swim in). He also took me to my families apartment in the mountains. Words cannot describe how incredible the mountains are and landscape is here. I really wish I brought my camera to show pictures, but going on that bikeride was really nice. It helped me to soak up the goodness here and to take it all in. I have been kind of hard on myself lately, and this gave me peace. On the bike ride, I saw lots of goats and cute farm land, with amazing houses in the mountains! It made me so happy and free.

I am going to do homework now, and work on my German. Maybe take a bike ride later if I have time before Choir class. We sing Elton John "Your Song" and it makes me extra happy. :)

I Love you, everyone!