Cousin time!

This Saturday Lara and I went shopping (I needed jeans, mom, I promise)

Ate the most delicious ice cream

And biked to a poetry slam-type event. It was super awesome. 

Sunday we watched movies (until 4 am, whoops!)

Did some math (literally 3 hours)

And went to the pool because the weather cannot decide if it's summer or fall. 

Day 2!

I have a weekly schedule, so the times I get up are different every day, and yesterday was thankfully a day when I get up later. My sleep schedule is still set on summer. Tomorrow morning is not going to be pleasant.  

We have basically jumped right into school, homework and all. The first English class was today, and that is the only class I have been bored in so far (I'm going to practice German in the future during English class). 

After school I bumped into some of my cousins friends and we went out for ice cream cause it was so nice and sunny. It's amazing how it's possible to recognize people a couple years after you've last seen them...

Also, Taylor Swift announced yesterday that her new album, "1989", is coming out September 27, which is exciting for me because I like her music. 

End of summer

School starts tomorrow! (Eep!) and I'm going to miss this weirdly rainy summer. I went to the pool:

Went on some trips:

Decorated a tshirt with my cousin:

Skyped friends for a long time:

Made a bag from an old sheet and decorated it:

Enjoyed some beautiful sunsets:

And made a ladybug friend. It decided to fly into my room and onto my laptop to help me with my math. Best math buddy ever. 

Summertime nothingness!

So last week and this week I basically did nothing, which included decorating my room,

Going to the Alpamare (an epic water park) with my cousin,

(And being amazed that they have Hershey's chocolate right next to the amazing Toblerone chocolate)

going shopping:

The first of August is basically Switzerland's birthday, and this year Switz was 723 years old! We celebrated by eating some bread I don't remember the name of (oops):

Going into Zurich, walking around listening to traditional music, and eating "chäse spatzli" (literally translated-cheese + a type of bird native to Europe) which are little mini dumplings with cheese and onions and parsley. It was pretty delicious:

That evening, we went to Dominic and Lara's house and ate yummy food, watched-and lit off-fireworks, and pretty much just used the day as an excuse to stay up until 2 am doing silly things. 

I got a little bored late one night and did some magic:

I am currently at my cousins house, where I stayed for three days because my aunt and uncle are on a mini vacation and decided to temporarily abandon their children.

During the three days I was here we made mini pizzas-twice:

Made a tiny fire and roasted marshmallows at 2 am (from which I now have mosquito bites on my eyelid and in the middle of my forehead):

Made a chocolate fondue at 3 in the morning with a friend (with silly consequences if you dropped your food in the chocolate)

And generally played a lot of super exciting video games:

It's 5 am now on the last day/night I'll be here... I think it's about time to go to sleep. Goodnight!

Weekend

This weekend was the first weekend of summer for my cousins:)

On Friday my friend and I went thrift shopping. We got a little bored... So we imitated the birds above us.

Then that evening I made a Wahe with my grandma, it turned out very yummy.

 I tried to take a selfie with her, and this is what happened:

On Sunday we went to Schaffhausen, a town about an hour's drive away from Adliswil. There was an old monastery there, and about 40 volunteers were living there like people used to 400 years ago. It was amazing.
There was also a museum, and Gage really liked the parts where he was able to try on actual armor. Like chainmail:

 And a helmet:

The best part of the day was watching people actually jousting. There were about 8 people from various places around the world who came specifically for the jousting. Jousting is their (very expensive) hobby, and they used correctly made armor, lances, and swords, exactly like a long time ago, when tournaments such as this one were held in exactly the same spot.

Fun times

Yesterday we went to a dinner with my cousins, Dominic and Lara. We played games and listened to music... It was fun. This was the gorgeous sunset on the way home.

Today I went to Blau ring, which is like a girl scout-type thing here with Lara. We had a muffin-decorating contest, and guess who won? This girl:) Here's a picture of my cupcake... It's modeled off of Olaf from the Disney movie Frozen. (The white bits around him are him melting;))

After we decorated muffins, we went to the Sihl river, which is about 5 minutes away from where my grandparents live. We played in the water and walked across the rocks over the river to get home.

Tonight we went to the "badi" (pool) and went night-swimming with Dominic and Lara. I've never been night-swimming, and it was super exciting.

Tomorrow is Dominic's confirmation, and then we get to go to lunch with some relatives:) Busy, busy, busy!