Ice sculpture

Today I went up on the Albis-the mountain that is near where I live-with my grandma. It's 60 years since the seilbahn (gondola-ski lift thingy) opened, and so they had a day where you could go up to the restaurant and get free hot drinks and watch this guy carve an ice sculpture. The ice sculpture thing was really cool.

It won't stop snowing here, which makes me really happy. Is it weird that I missed being cold? Probably. Oh well. It was lots of fun and I got to spend some quality time with my grandma. :)

😊

Today I cleaned my room, did some studying, drew some stuff,

and put up multicolored fairy lights over my window that I plan on keeping up all year:) I also got a super nice surprise-Grammy called me! Love you! 💕

Woot Circus!

Today I went to a circus with my cousin. It was really really really cool. The physics of some of the stuff the artists did are beyond me. Pretty insane stuff.😳

We also got ice cream & had front-row seats. :) 

Zürich also looked absolutely gorgeous today with snow. 

SNOW

So it finally snowed here. Up in the Alps there's almost always snow, but down in the valleys it's a bit rarer. It was so wacky not having a white Christmas, but yay now there's snow!!

Tomorrow I'm going to the circus with Lara (Christmas present from my aunt & uncle)! I'm excited!! 😊

Stephanitag??

In Switzerland (and I don't know how may other countries) the 26th of December is another holiday, called St. Stephens Day. That means everyone has another day off of work and such. So happy Stephanitag!

Tonight we went to my Aunt & Uncle's and ate leftovers from Christmas dinner. Then we were made to watch a movie called Doctor Zhivago. It's a movie set in Russia during the Russian Revolution and it's super long. I didn't particularly enjoy it. We watched it because one of the main characters is named Lara, and my cousin's name is Lara. Also, her friend Lara was named after the Lara in the movie, which is pretty cool. 

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Today I got up earlier than I wanted to so that I could unwrap my presents from Montana. It was a super awesome surprise to see my stocking here... My mom gave it to my grandma in New York. Merry Christmas! 

Christmas Eve Day

Today I helped my grandma prepare for dinner pretty much all day. Then we had my cousins and aunt & uncle over, and ate a yummy dinner and unwrapped presents. We Skyped with my parents and then I got to unwrap my presents from my swiss relatives:) Then my grandma, cousin, and I went to midnight mass. It was gorgeous!

1 more day!

Oh my gosh tomorrow is Christmas Eve! Today I helped my grandma clean & prepare for the Christmas dinner tomorrow. My aunt & uncle & cousins are coming over:) Here they open presents on Christmas Eve, so I'll be opening the ones from here then, and the ones from Montana on Christmas morning.

I'm also probably going to midnight mass with my grandma and cousin tomorrow, so I'm going to bed a bit earlier. I can't wait for Christmas!        🎅🎄🎁

Presents(!!!)

I dorm like to get out the wrapping paper and tape and scissors and markers and paper and cards and bows and such to wrap presents with until I have all the presents I want to wrap. Which means I wrapped all my Christmas presents today! It's really strange picking out presents for people that I usually don't, and not giving things to my brother and parents. Meh. I have way fewer presents to give this year. Only my grandparents and cousins and aunt and uncle. 

Only two more days until Christmas! Yippee! This was the sunset when I was walking home with my grandma after grocery shopping. 😱 So gorgeous. 

Christmas tree, swimming, & cookie fail

Today I got up late and helped my grandma decorate her fake mini Christmas tree. Apparently my dad calls it the Charlie Brown tree. It's tiny. It only took about 1/2 hour to decorate. I'm used to a real & much larger tree that takes most of the afternoon to decorate... But it was still fun. My grandma has to have everything just so, therefore it was basically her giving me ornaments and then rearranging them until they looked symmetrical enough. She's adorable. 

After lunch I went swimming in the indoor pool literally across the street from my grandparent's apartment with Lara & Dominic. It was pretty fun:) We basically just hung out & talked.

Then I went over to Dominic and Lara's house and we attempted to make cookies. There's a particular type of cookie (I don't know if it's a swiss specialty or something?) that's called a "Spitzbueb". I honestly don't know how to translate that... Uhh... "Bueb" means "boy" in swiss-german, and "spitz" means "tip" (like the tip of the tower), but together they mean something along the lines of "mischievous boy". I don't know why. It just is that way. They're two cookies with jam in the middle, and usually a face or a heart cut out of the top cookie, so the jam peeks through. With powdered sugar on top. They're so good. However, it took us forever to cut out the cookies, because the dough is impossible to work with. Then we only had a small amount of dough, so we couldn't make very many. (26, to be exact) And lastly, when we put them in the oven, they melted quite a bit... So basically all the careful cutting out we'd done was useless. Oh well. I got to eat some yummy cookies, and we had fun.

Happy birthday to my uncle:)

Friday! Christmas break!

Yay Christmas break!!! Today was super fun. We only had one hour of music in the morning because the second period was an orchestra concert, and choir was canceled because Christmas/the teachers are nice. So we had two hours for lunch, and three other girls and I went to the lake.

Then we had an hour less of math, because of the "atempause" I mentioned in my last post. I got to sing a song called "there's a girl that I love" (don't know who wrote it) that is in a round. It's super pretty and has like a secret message, a place, at the end when the round finishes. And a bunch of other classes did different things, basically it was a little celebration that there's a break, and happiness about the holiday season and the accomplishments of the school.

After I Skyped with my mom in the evening, Lara and Lea and I were going to go ice skating, but it started raining. So we had a movie night instead. It was still super fun. (My friend took this picture & I thought it was cool, so...)

I'm so excited it's finally Christmas break!

Happy day of school

Today was a usual day, except I went to lunch with a bunch of other girls from my class & then went shopping because we had a double lunch period. It was super fun. Tomorrow we are supposed to dress a bit more elegant, and I get to sing with my music class at the "atempause" (literally breath pause??) tomorrow instead of going to math. I don't really know what it is... I guess I'll find out. But only one more day until Christmas break! I'm so excited!

Also, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but our class is doing a secret Santa type thing, and I got a bunch of delicious chocolate from my secret Santa today:) Basically it was a good day.

Christmas market (again)

Today I had a half day, like every Wednesday, and afterwards I went to the Christmas market again to get presents for my grandma, aunt & uncle, and my little brother. (Gage, I'll give you your present when I come home:)) 

I'm so excited for Christmas ahhhh only two more days of school! I can't wait! (Shoutout to Stephanie for skyping with me for forever)

Pentatonix

Today was a usual Tuesday. :) It was nice. 

I was on Facebook this evening and I noticed that the music group Pentatonix is on tour, and they are coming to Europe! I looked at the tour dates, and they're coming to Zurich on April 15th! I want to see if I can get tickets... Because that would be so cool. If you don't know who Pentatonix are, I suggest you Google them and watch some of their youtube videos. They're pretty amazing.  

Christmas lights

Can Christmas break start tomorrow? Pleaseeee?

Today was an average day, so exciting. I spent about 5 minutes lost in thought whilst brushing my teeth this evening after skyping Kayli, so my teeth are especially clean. *sigh* I need my friends. Come make me sane again. 

Oh! I took photos this morning of some of the Christmas lights in Adliswil, and they're really pretty. I was kind of on the way to the train so I didn't have time to stop and find a good angle for a picture and such, but you get the general idea. (The trees are attached to a bridge by the way, and you can see one of the many stars that are hung around the main square area)

Surrrrnday

Today I did homework, practiced Christmas music on the piano (finally!!), cleaned my room, and Skyped with Stephanie. 

My class is doing a sort of secret Santa thing where you get a name and you have to give that person little gifts without them knowing who you are... I'm giving the girl that I got a pretty ring tomorrow, and a scarf on Thursday or Friday. I already got an adorable little "Schutzengel" (protector angel) from my secret Santa. :)

Only one more week of school until Christmas break!

Weihnachtsmärt

Today I got up early ish and went Christmas present shopping. Then I came back and just spent some time at home. In the afternoon I went into Zürich with my grandma and we went to the "Weihnachtsmärt", or Christmas market, in the main train station. Basically a Christmas-themed farmers market. It is so cool. There is also a giant tree decorated with Swarovski crystal ornaments that is basically the only lighting in the whole station after dark. It's gorgeous, and super sparkly. The picture doesn't do the sparklyness justice. (This is inside, by the way.)

We took a different way home than normal to see the lights down Bahnhofstrasse, the main road in Zürich. They were so pretty!

I also got a yummy "morechopf" (by the way that's a politically incorrect term, the politically correct version is "schoggi kuss", meaning "chocolate kiss" instead of "nigger/black person head"), which I've blogged about before. They're those yummy marshmallow-filled chocolate-covered things of deliciousness. Anyway, there was a hut selling just those in different flavors, so of course I had to get the zebra one. :)

The gorgeousness of the lights and the tree and the market almost made up for the ridiculous amount of people everywhere. Zürich alone has a population of almost 400,000?! (Kalispell is 20,000) Ew.

Apparently I am not a party animal

So, last night I went to that Christmas dinner, but I left early to go to bed. Lame, I know, but I was/am still sniffly, so I have an excuse. But my grandma told me this morning that she and my grandpa didn't come back until 2 am?! Are my grandparents better at partying than I am? Really? *cries*

Today I went to school and then Skyped with my mom. Hi, mom! *waves*

Happy Friday, though! Yay! I can sleep!

"Back to school"

Today I finally got to go back to school! Yay! It was nice to see all my classmates again:)

And there was a Christmas dinner downstairs for all the people in the building that my grandparents live in, which was very nice. They had two xylophone players from Poland come and play two giant xylophones for us. It was pretty cool. They played four or six-handed, (one of them sometimes took two mallets in each hand) and they played songs from famous composers like Vivaldi or Beethoven. It was super impressive, believe it or not. The most amazing part (in my opinion) was that they had all transposed the music for the xylophone themselves. That had to be hard to do. It was basically one of the coolest things I've ever seen. I wish I could put video in my post but I can't. I found them on the Internet, you can see their website here: (or just search for malletduo and click the first link) http://malletduo.pl/en 

K my face is normal again

My face is normal againnnnnn yay! I also have no fever, so I hopefully get to go to school tomorrow after I go to the doctor hopefully for the last time. Yippee! Then it'll have been exactly two weeks since I went to school. Whoop whoop. 

"My plastic surgery experience"

*simpering, annoying, girly voice*

So a few days ago *smacks gum* my daddy gave me lip implants for my sweet sixteen. He also got me a Lamborghini, but it was blue instead of purple, which is not what I wanted, so I made him give it back. *checks manicure* Anyways. So I finally got these lip implants. Don't they look BEYOND fabulous. *twirls hair* I know, right?? I am SO in love. I still have to get my nose fixed, though, so just ignore that in the picture. *shudders delicately*

No, but for real. Today I woke up, normal sick day, ate breakfast and took my antibiotics just like I did last night, and went to my room and watched YouTube videos and such for a while. About two hours after breakfast, I was chewing on my lip while reading something online (random habit I have) when I noticed that my lip felt wayyyy wacko. I touched it with my finger and then looked in the mirror. I will admit I freaked out just a little. That picture up there was my real lips (no, I obviously did not have plastic surgery. Also, I like my nose. Just a joke.). I apparently am allergic to something in the antibiotics they gave me. I also had red itchy spots on my legs. So we went to the doctor, where they stabbed me with a needle and then gave me some pretty intense allergy medication. It worked really quickly. I now no longer have any spots or itchiness, but one side of my bottom lip is still a bit weird. You can't tell from looking at it, but I can feel it. Hopefully everything goes away very soon. Basically, I've stopped taking all medication stuff except for the allergy thing. Yay for learning new things? Never been allergic to anything before...

Doctor

So today I went to the doctors again, and the lady there gave me medication because I might possibly have the very beginnings of a lung infection. Gah. So now I have to stay at home for another week! Yayyyyy

Relatives I didn't know I had

Today we went over to Dominic & Lara's for dinner. I met my uncle Ralph's parents for (what I think is) the first time. I guess we're related. It's weird.

But hopefully I get to go to school tomorrow!!!!

Happy late Santa day

So yesterday was "Samichlaus" day. This is the day that Santa Claus comes and visits, and if you've been good, he gives you a little bag filled with nuts, mandarin or regular oranges, chocolate, and little gifts. Here's mine:)

(Christmas is when the "Christkind" (Christ child) comes.)

For dinner we went to a restaurant near where we live with my aunt & uncle & cousins. It was pretty fun, but we got back and I forgot to blog. Oh well. 

What the heck

So today I was again at home with my lovely cough. I got bored, so I went on YouTube. I ended up watching that old TV show Shake It Off, with Bella Thorne and Zendaya. Never seen it, never had any inclination to see it, but I was bored. So I tried to watch it and oh my gosh. Why. Why do they feel the need to make the characters ridiculously stupid and slow??? Why do they tell horrible, boring, unimaginative, not even actually funny jokes and then layer canned laughter over it later??? Is it so the people that watch these dumb shows know when to laugh? I literally could not finish the episode. I've never been so disgusted in my life. Thank you to my parents, who never exposed me to that absolute garbage so many people call "entertainment".

COUGHHHH

Argh! I can't stop coughing! I feel fine, no fever, no headache, but this cough is driving me insane and tiring me out. Grr. Still no school. 

Yeah, no

So I'm stilllllll at home. My grandma thinks my cough is too bad. I got a note from the doctor for me to be excused from school until Monday if need be. The real problem is that it's cold out, and I have to wait at various tram and train stations on the way to and home from school. And the cold would make me sick again, and we'd start from square one. At home I could just hop in the car and barely be in the cold. :/

Grr. I want to go back to school. 

*cough cough COUGH*

So I stayed home againnnn today, and now I'm coughing a lot more. But no fever, no headache, and the only reason I'm tired is because I don't usually use my abs as much as I am now. *cough*

I'm hopefully going to school tomorrow though! It'd also be a half day, so I wouldn't be too tired afterwards. 

Attack of the cough

Today I again felt much better, except now I am coughing. Grr. My grandma wanted to see how well I was recovered, so she sent me for a 10-minute walk. I came back and promptly fell asleep for two hours because I was so exhausted, so she decided that maybe we should wait until I go back to school. 

So now I have a cough, but I still feel way better, and I don't have a fever either. 

The plague is almost dead

Today I felt much much muuuuuch better. I had an appetite again, my fever & headache were both completely gone, and I was able to help my grandma make Christmas cookies! I am still super weak, but that's what happens when you don't feel like eating for two days... But I am staying at home tomorrow.

It also happens to be my dear friend Kiley's Sweet Sixteen! Birthday shoutout to you:)

I also got to Skype with my family! *insert embarrassing screenshot here*-just kidding. I promise once I'm back in school the posts will become a teeny bit less boring. Promise. Goodnight!

Die, plague

Today I again felt a bit better, but definitely still nowhere close to 100%. I was hungry for the first time in three days, which was good. My fever went down more and the only thing that really bothered me was my massive headache. But tomorrow I might make Christmas cookies with my grandma! Yay!

*cough cough*

So today I stayed in bed again, I felt a little bit better than yesterday, and my fever went down and then up again... So my grandma gave me some medication. Usually I don't like taking meds for smaller illnesses because I think it's better for your body to fight by itself, but this definitely helped me, and I don't have a headache or a fever anymore. I have exactly 96.8. I also got to talk to my parents on the phone for a few minutes tonight-yay! Also, a giant congratulations to Papa & Brenda!

Yeah, it's definitely the plague.

Today when I woke up I knew I wasn't going to school. I had a massive headache, I felt all shaky when I stood up, and I had a temperature of 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit. So I stayed in bed all day. I slept 11 hours last night and slept about 6 or 7 more today. But I'm feeling a little bit better than this morning. Looking at my phone makes my headache worse, so I'm going to say goodnight. Happy Thanksgiving! (It's not celebrated in Switzerland, obviously)

It's the plague

Today when I got up I already felt not so 100%. By the time I got home from school I was basically dead. I'm so tired, I'm going to bed at 8pm. I'm pretty sure the entire population of Zurich is sick. Ew. 

But singing was fun and I got a 6 (best/perfect grade) for my English participation in class. 

Silly teacher

Today was another average day, except my math class in the morning was canceled 30 minutes before it started... And it was supposed to be our first day with a new math teacher. So of course I was already at school and I just had to wait until next period... Oh well. Everyone else in the class was there too. 

I also attended the singing workshop again, and I'm so excited for Friday and Saturday! Yay!

Singing workshop

Today was an average Monday, except after school I got to go sing for two hours in a choir directed by a man called Freddy Washington. He has done multiple workshop-type things in the past at the school I'm going to, and apparently this is his last one. So I got super lucky! He seems really nice, and what's best about the whole thing is that it's a choir composed of people who actually want to be there to sing, not because it's an easy A. The workshop is mostly gospel music, and it's every day this week with a concert on Friday and Saturday. It's going to be an awesome week. 

Suuuuuuunday

Today I got up late & did chores & homework pretty much all day. My grandparents had guests for a few hours, and so I finally got to meet the adorable old lady who knits me slippers every year! Just because she is friends with my grandma she has knitted me slippers for the past few years and it's so sweet.

I also did a drawing (obviously inspired by the movie I saw last night...)

And I Skyped with the Katie Bug!!! Miss you, girlie! <3

Mockingjay!

Today I got up late and did assorted chores throughout the day. Then at 8 I went to see the new Hunger Games movie, Mockingjay Part 1, with my class. It was so good, even though it was in German... :/ I got home really late though... But I can't wait for Part 2, especially because I'll get to see it with my friends back home. 

Something that I found super duper wacky about the movie was that there was an intermission! They literally stopped the movie right in the middle of a sentence and started it right back up again after 15 minutes. It was so weird. The reason, of course, is money... Everyone gets up at that time to get popcorn and snacks and such. Apparently all movies here are like that. Gah. 

Friday! Week 13!

Today was an awesome day:)

I wore a pair of jeans I ripped with neon tights underneath and I got a bunch of compliments, which made me happy.

So... We thought that our music teacher was sick so we left... Turns out he was just late. Oops.

Next week I'm participating in a singing workshop! Yay! We practice every day for one week and then do a mini concert on Friday and Saturday. It's going to be super fun:)

Also, what is up with Apple & my internet?! This is not normal...? Yeah, no. The update can wait. 

Long lunch!

Today I had three hours for lunch because history and study hall got canceled. Yippee! So I went into Zürich with a bunch of other girls in my class to this adorable little underground Italian take-away place. It was so so so good:)

Then when I got home (why is it already dark at 5pm?!) I was greeted by an adorable little package sitting on my desk with the return address of  a certain Kayli. She sent me a late birthday present!! Yay! I got even more skittles:) It made my week. Thank you Kayliiiiii.

Then tonight at about 7pm I decide it would be a good idea to update my phone, because iOS 8.1.1 is available and my phone keeps sending me notifications. I figure it can't take more than a few hours, right? Well apparently I was not right. Right now it says 5 hours remaining. So... I guess I'll go to bed and cross my fingers that when I get up it'll be done? *crosses fingers*  oh wait, now it says 4 hours... I'm so confused. Is this a good sign?

The grandma:)

Today my grandma had her second eye surgery. I'm not actually entirely sure what procedure she had done (not lasik) because stuff like that grosses me out. It's somethingn to do with cleaning the lense of her eye, because apparently stuff that was white was turning yellow, but I'm not sure. Anyways, she was pretty much on the couch all day. So I went grocery shopping and made dinner on my free afternoon:)

I also got new markers! They're super colorful, and I'm excited to draw stuff with them. Yay!

Weather

Today was a pretty average day:)

I had to run for the train and I slipped in by like 2 inches. Yippee!

Today I was noticing how everyone was complaining about the cold. I didn't think it was that bad... So I liked at the weather here and the weather in Kalispell and laughed. This is right now, 10:30pm for me and 2:30pm in Kalispell. (Fahrenheit)

Barf tree?

Happy Monday!

Today as I was walking up the stairs to school I noticed a very very nasty smell. Lara told me about it before... The smell comes from a tree, and when the leaves fall down it smells like barf. Literally. It was gross.

But in other news, I got my Spanish test back today, and I improved a bunch since the last test! Yay! :)

Sunday:)

Today I got up late again, did homework, drew a bunch of stuff,

 and went to a concert with my grandma at a church that my grandpa was in. 

Doodles!

Today I got up late and did homework, laundry, and doodled on stuff all day.

I made a drawing for someone's Christmas present (!!!) and did a couple teeny little doodles. Like this one:) Can you guess who it is?

Friday! Week 12!

Today was a good day:)

We took a Spanish test and I finished it this time... (Finished filling in all the answers) as opposed to last time where I didn't have enough time...

Then I came home and did homework. But then Kayli snap chatted me and I had to pause the homework to do this:

Yay for the weekend!

Happy almost Friday!

Today I did my English presentation about American holidays, and apparently everyone liked it! Yay! I also had sport, where we again played basketball, which was super fun.

There was a random chair in the central part of the school (where there are tables to sit at for lunch and such) that was covered in painters tape and had a marker taped to it. I think it was someone's project on what teenagers will "graffiti" on something they are allowed to write on. It was really fun to read all the stuff on it.

Then I came home and did homework:) Also, here's a picture I took a few days ago when I was walking home from school. 

Yippee for it almost being Friday!

Where does the time go?

Today I had a half day of school, then went and drank coffee with seven other girls from my class. It was the perfect way to spend a sunny afternoon. :)

Then I came home, did homework, and cleaned my entire room. The nice thing about having a smaller room with way less stuff is that it only takes an hour or two to completely clean it.

But seriously, how is it already almost Thursday? I was just bemoaning the fact that I had practically a whole week until the weekend, and boom, it's almost the weekend. Yippee!

Sweet Sweet Sixteen

So today was the best day ever. Seriously. I woke up and went to school, where my awesome classmates had put up balloons, a banner that said "Happy Birthday", and a type of cookie called "Zimtsterne" that is never had before. Then two girls from my class and I went to Starbucks for lunch just cause.

When I came home I unwrapped my presents from my friends/family back home and was super surprised. Thank you Katie, Miranda, and Grammy Susan!

I went to dinner with my grandparents and aunt and uncle and cousins, whence was super nice. Lara and I danced around outside to loud music afterwards. (I look like I'm in pain but I'm actually very passionately singing to Taylor Swift. I promise.)

Then I came home and unwrapped my presents from my Mom & Dad & Gage. Thank you all so much!

Pretty much the best birthday in the history of ever. <3

Yeah, my Spanish teacher is cool

Today was a normal day, except that my Spanish teacher was a little weirder than he normally is. The bell rings, he comes in, hands out an assignment, tells everyone that a kid in my class named Lázaro is in charge, and walks out. So we definitely got a lot done that period... 

I'm so excited for tomorrow! Yippee for Sweet Sixteen!!! Thanks to a bunch of people who have already wished me a happy birthday<3

Cookies

Today I made cookies with my grandma for my class for my birthday. 

Only two more days until I'm 16 and can legally drink/buy alcohol in Switzerland...!

I also Skyped with Kiley and Rose:)

Fancy dinner

Today I basically helped my grandma prepare a fancy dinner (fondue!) for some guests all day. It was a nice way to spend a Saturday.

(P.S. Mom, you lost your napkin-folding house-elf for the year, Oma was excited about my napkin skillzzzz)

Friday! Week 11!

Today I had a music test first period, which was... Interesting. All the notes have different names than they do in the U.S., and they use a different rhythm-speaking system than we do here. 

Choir was awesome as usual, and I signed up to try out for one of two solos for the concert at the end of the year. We'll see how that goes, but there were only a few other people signed up so... *crosses fingers*

On the way home from school I realized that I hadn't had coffee in a while, so of course I had to do the classic #whitegirl thing and get some. :)

I also Skyped with my mom. Miss you! 

Happy day:)

Happy almost Friday!

I'm pretty sure time has never flown so fast as it has here. Even though I'm homesick sometimes and I miss so many people, I've made some amazing friends here and I know I'll remember this year forever. The school year is already 1/4 done?!?

Anyways, today I went to school and came home in the dark... But it was only 5:30. Wacky short days.

Only 5 days until my birthday! :)

Umbrellaaaaaa

Today I had a half-day of school (like every Wednesday) and it rained the whole day. :/. My grandma decided that for my birthday she would buy me a new umbrella, so today we went umbrella shopping. So exciting, I know. But I actually found a really cool one... :)

Also, when we were in Zurich I noticed a bunch of things hanging from the buildings and I asked my grandma about them. Apparently Zurich gets all lit up with Christmas lights during the holiday season. I'm so excited for Christmas already... Is that weird? I can't wait to see what these look like lit up though!

Tonight was a holiday called "Rabelichten", which means " turnip lighting", which means that you carve turnips (kind of like pumpkins in the U.S. But different-see the post "Happy November!" for details) and you walk through the streets where the streetlights are turned off with the lit turnips, and it looks really cool. It was super fun, even though it was raining nonstop all day today-it even snowed a teeny bit tonight! (This is a group of kids holding their turnips-you can't see it very well)

Public transport *gasp*

Today was pretty uneventful, but still fun:)

However, usually when I come back from school I take a tram two stops then a train about 5 or 6 stops. However today when I got to the train station the sign that usually says when the next train is arriving said that the train wasn't operating between the station I was at and 3 others. In order to understand what a catastrophe this is, you must first understand that the Swiss public transportation is literally one of the best in the world, and they are very very proud of the clean, safe, and most importantly, very very very punctual public transport system (as they should be). So this is a big big deal and there was quite a bit of grumbling, despite the fact that there was the biggest bus I have ever seen (like literally four buses stapled together) to take us all the three stations to where the train was operating again. So that was weird. Usually the trains, teams, and buses are perfectly punctual, down to the second. It was entertaining. 

Happy Birthday, Dad!

So today is my Dad's Birthday!^^^

Happy birthday to the most hardworking, honest person there is. I love you!

Today i got up early and went to school & then had my singing lesson, where my teacher had me try doing yoga and singing at the same time. Like I was upside down and trying to sing. I don't know about you, but yoga is actually difficult sometimes, and there is no extra air left over for singing. So that went fabulously of course.

Then I came home and did homework and ate dinner and now I'm going to bed. Wow this is so exciting. Tomorrow's post will be just as exciting, I'm sure. And the day after that, and the day after that, and the day after that, and oh I forgot to mention that I finished my english presentation! (maybe I did already mention it but #ebolo) <<Google it<<

Strange-smelling adventure?

Today I got up and did some studying, then ate lunch and went with my grandma to visit my great-grandmothers grave. I never knew her, but today was All Souls Day, so a lot of people were at the cemetery putting flowers and such on the graves. 

I am currently a Catholic, but I think it's dumb to believe or trust in something when you don't know what other options or viewpoints or arguments there are, so I'm very interested in learning about other religions. Well it just so happens that this week the inter-religion group (or something like that) is doing a "religion week", where every day a different religion opens their church or temple or mosque doors and anyone can come and be informed about that religion. I think that is the coolest thing ever. So today the Hindu temple that's only a 10 minute walk away from my grandmas house was doing a presentation, so we went. It was super cool. Completely different from anything I've ever seen. The only bad thing was whatever they were burning gave me a massive headache. But other than that it was fascinating. (And I did ask if it was ok to take pictures, don't worry)

Afterwards I went over to my Aunts house for her to give me a mini French lesson. Then I came home, ate dinner, and Skyped with my family. I miss you guys!