Hey all
Not much has been going on. School is going well. Last week was back to normal (whatever that is). It was pretty cold. Snow has been falling on Pilatus (the huge mountain).
Last weekend, I hung out with another guy from the Bay Area (though not the same Rotary district) in Stans, a small town on the southern side of Vierwaldstättersee (the Lake of Lucerne). We saw a cool glass-blowing place that had a glass-labyrinth. Unfortunately, it closed as we got there. After, we met up with some other exchange students and went out for the night. T'was awesome. I have some new awesome Aussie, Canadian and New Zealand friends. Because I've never taken a nightbus before, I took the wrong bus home. It gets better. The bus I took went in the right direction and if I had gotten off at Eichhof, I could have been okay. BUT, I fell asleep while I waited for the bus to take off. So when the hooker I had leaned on got off, I up to realize I was on the other side of Kriens. Basically to get home, I walked (and ran at one point) from Valley Fair to Westmont at 2:45am instead of what could have been Rolling hills to Westmont.
It's a good story, I guess. Funnier now than then.
On.. what day was that... thursday? Sure. It was Thursday in this story. After school, I went to Bern for jsut a couple hours to hang out with an Aussie. We went to McDonalds. It was very good. They have better American cheese here. And meat. Too bad it's 12stutz for the meal. Then we wondered around the market and bought some Condescending-Glasses. Short meet up. Was nice.
Not much going on other than that. I got my license to play Unihockey in Switzerland. Yayyy
Then there's a lot of "oh let's hang out" then at the last minute "oh nevermind, I can't"
baii, you all.
-Eddie
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Italian graffiti sucks
WELL, this last week I've been in Italy with the family! Pretty cool! It's so weird to be only 2hours from the southern border (1.5 in the other directions). When we go through the Gotthard tunnel, on the other side, it's the Italian speaking part of Switz. and then from there its about an hour to Italy. The border is nothing. We slow down to 5mph then boom, next country. Well, I mean... who would be attacking Switzerland?
Ehh, my feet are cold. Hold on, I'll get some socks.
BACK.
SO, Sunday:
Woke up at 4.30.
We left at 6am.
Made some important potty stops.
Then we found where we were staying for the night. We stayed on someone's farm near Colle di Val d'Elsa. It was really cool. The rooms weren't like the nicest but on the property they had loads of chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, and OSTRICHES. yes.
After we settled in, we went to the main part of the city. Lots of wandering around.
Monday:
The family and I went to Siena. We saw the first bank ever, I guess. On the huge courtyard, we had lunch and avoided the rain. The amount of English spoken was incredible. You don't appreciate hearing English until you are away from it so long. Lots of Americans and Aussies.
Tuesday:
San Gimignano. Enjoyed some ice cream. Went on a 2hour hike and met some Dutch with whom we talked to for the walk. It was fun. We learned some Dutch and had a multilingual conversation. We had dinner at the same pizzeria as Sunday. Very good.
Wednesday:
Firenze! More wandering, ice cream and pictures. Saw David and other cool rock-people. After some more looking at stuff (very cool, but I can't really elaborate), we went looking for a winery. It took a while but we go there to find out they don't do wine-tasting. Stefan bought some wine then we stopped at another. We found out the girl that served the wine was from the US when I said something in English and so the whole conversation consisted of Italian, English, highGerman, and Swiss German. He bought more wine and we headed to the place we stayed.
Thursday:
T'was a slow day. The kids and I fed the pigs and we all went with the WHITE gardener looking for mushrooms. Stefan wanted to go to a small town so we drove there. It was cute. Especially with the squashed birds.
Friday:
PISA!!!! We drove to Pisa (with some difficulty). You know, they have a tower that is tilting to one side? Quite fascinating. ATE ICE CREAM. Lots of walking. Then we shopped... sorta. After, we headed home. The girls played some weird picture game and we stopped a beach for a half hour. No swimming though. Too cold.
So that's all i got. Fun week. Lots of laughs...and walking.
Okay, bye bye.
-Eddie
Ehh, my feet are cold. Hold on, I'll get some socks.
BACK.
SO, Sunday:
Woke up at 4.30.
We left at 6am.
Made some important potty stops.
Then we found where we were staying for the night. We stayed on someone's farm near Colle di Val d'Elsa. It was really cool. The rooms weren't like the nicest but on the property they had loads of chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, and OSTRICHES. yes.
After we settled in, we went to the main part of the city. Lots of wandering around.
Monday:
The family and I went to Siena. We saw the first bank ever, I guess. On the huge courtyard, we had lunch and avoided the rain. The amount of English spoken was incredible. You don't appreciate hearing English until you are away from it so long. Lots of Americans and Aussies.
Tuesday:
San Gimignano. Enjoyed some ice cream. Went on a 2hour hike and met some Dutch with whom we talked to for the walk. It was fun. We learned some Dutch and had a multilingual conversation. We had dinner at the same pizzeria as Sunday. Very good.
Wednesday:
Firenze! More wandering, ice cream and pictures. Saw David and other cool rock-people. After some more looking at stuff (very cool, but I can't really elaborate), we went looking for a winery. It took a while but we go there to find out they don't do wine-tasting. Stefan bought some wine then we stopped at another. We found out the girl that served the wine was from the US when I said something in English and so the whole conversation consisted of Italian, English, highGerman, and Swiss German. He bought more wine and we headed to the place we stayed.
Thursday:
T'was a slow day. The kids and I fed the pigs and we all went with the WHITE gardener looking for mushrooms. Stefan wanted to go to a small town so we drove there. It was cute. Especially with the squashed birds.
Friday:
PISA!!!! We drove to Pisa (with some difficulty). You know, they have a tower that is tilting to one side? Quite fascinating. ATE ICE CREAM. Lots of walking. Then we shopped... sorta. After, we headed home. The girls played some weird picture game and we stopped a beach for a half hour. No swimming though. Too cold.
So that's all i got. Fun week. Lots of laughs...and walking.
Okay, bye bye.
-Eddie
Sunday, October 3, 2010
HOI
So I just got a message from a certain person that told me I was being lazy and not keeping up with the blog and I though "Hey, I've totally been up-to-date" but then i saw the last post! So long ago!
I can't tell you certain dates but i'll just ramble on about everything i remember since last time.
For last weekend, the fam and i went to Winterthur (again) for my host-cousin's b-day. She decided we would all go to Aguamare, an epically awesome waterpark. All of the enterances and exits to slides and pools were inside so the storm outside was no bother. The slides weren't like super great, but i still loved the warmth of not being outside. The place also has an INDOOR WAVE POOL. Cool. Lastly, it was great that there were no people at the top of each slide, instead, there were fancy-schmancy lights.
School has been great. Basically everyone there is super nice to me and i even got a teacher that looks like Ned Flanders from the Simpsons. I'll get a photo of him next class. Last week of school was some special week and more than half of the school was on a trip including Luana(sister), who went to some snowy place to work on Romeo and Juliet stuffs, and Stefan(dad) went to Berlin with his class. Unfortunately, our grade didn't go on adventures like that. Monday consisted of a 7hour history class about Iran and everytime "Flanders" had anything to say about the US, he would look at me with his dorky-ass smile. It got old. fast. For lunch, i had to go to Rotary. Some evil person put brussel sprouts in my chicken. They had even tried to cover it in bacon to hide it. Nope, i know it was there. Blechhh
Tuesday was cool. Our class went to Lausanne, which is in the French speaking part of Switz., and whilst there, we went to the Olympic Museum. After, we wandered around the city speaking Peter Griffin-Italian. "BAPADA POOPI!"
Wednesday... Music and German class. Combined. The songs were all in old German. HA. What a waste of my day. It was great to catch up on sleep.
Thursday morning was something with Flanders but i'm not sure what it was... the afternoon involved a map game and a lot of running around on our imaginary horses throughout the school looking for orange cards. Quite fun.
Friday was economy in the morning, which was actually interesting and i could understand most of it. The afternoon was sport and no one wanted to tell me that if i wanted to play tennis, i had to go to Kriens and since i went to the gym, i had to do DANCE. Fun... i guess.
SATURDAY:
Zopf in the morning. Then Maurin, Stefan and I drove to Miri's house in Stuttgart and the Bachs (who live on Chopinstrasse ^,,^) treated us to epic cake and coffee. Miri, her dad, Stefan, Maurin and I then made our way to Mannheim and watch the SJ SHARKS play die Adler!!!! The announcer dude from the Tank was there along with Sharkie, and some important dude who sounded familiar... It was AWESOME. Miri and I sang the National Anthem alone with the singer. The first two periods were humiliating. I swear it was the Rampage out there... no offense but... ughh
The third period included 2 quick sharks goals for 2-1. Then, while 4 on 4, die Adler tied it up. With maybe 17seconds left, we scored but they disallowed it for some reason. The other real Sharks fans and i chanted "BULLSHIT." Eventually, the Sharks won in Shootout. The night was overall super ultra awesome.
SUNDAY:
Morning with the Bachs
We left for the main city by lightrail train. We got off and got tickets to the VfB Stuttgart gegen Frankfurt match! We then walked around Oktoberfest until the game. It was so cool. Huge-ass tents with beer and meat and boots and unbelievably drunk people. There were rides that looked so unsafe and huge. I had a currywurst that was SOOO good.
The football match was awesome. We had seats near the visitor corner so they yelled and threw stuff at us. It was incredibly entertaining. I loved it. VfB lost 2-1 but i still think the goal that was called offsides was okay and the score should've been 2-2. I've never seen so many police in riot suits.
That's all i can remember at the moment. i'll add more soon.
Ciao!
-Eddie
I can't tell you certain dates but i'll just ramble on about everything i remember since last time.
For last weekend, the fam and i went to Winterthur (again) for my host-cousin's b-day. She decided we would all go to Aguamare, an epically awesome waterpark. All of the enterances and exits to slides and pools were inside so the storm outside was no bother. The slides weren't like super great, but i still loved the warmth of not being outside. The place also has an INDOOR WAVE POOL. Cool. Lastly, it was great that there were no people at the top of each slide, instead, there were fancy-schmancy lights.
School has been great. Basically everyone there is super nice to me and i even got a teacher that looks like Ned Flanders from the Simpsons. I'll get a photo of him next class. Last week of school was some special week and more than half of the school was on a trip including Luana(sister), who went to some snowy place to work on Romeo and Juliet stuffs, and Stefan(dad) went to Berlin with his class. Unfortunately, our grade didn't go on adventures like that. Monday consisted of a 7hour history class about Iran and everytime "Flanders" had anything to say about the US, he would look at me with his dorky-ass smile. It got old. fast. For lunch, i had to go to Rotary. Some evil person put brussel sprouts in my chicken. They had even tried to cover it in bacon to hide it. Nope, i know it was there. Blechhh
Tuesday was cool. Our class went to Lausanne, which is in the French speaking part of Switz., and whilst there, we went to the Olympic Museum. After, we wandered around the city speaking Peter Griffin-Italian. "BAPADA POOPI!"
Wednesday... Music and German class. Combined. The songs were all in old German. HA. What a waste of my day. It was great to catch up on sleep.
Thursday morning was something with Flanders but i'm not sure what it was... the afternoon involved a map game and a lot of running around on our imaginary horses throughout the school looking for orange cards. Quite fun.
Friday was economy in the morning, which was actually interesting and i could understand most of it. The afternoon was sport and no one wanted to tell me that if i wanted to play tennis, i had to go to Kriens and since i went to the gym, i had to do DANCE. Fun... i guess.
SATURDAY:
Zopf in the morning. Then Maurin, Stefan and I drove to Miri's house in Stuttgart and the Bachs (who live on Chopinstrasse ^,,^) treated us to epic cake and coffee. Miri, her dad, Stefan, Maurin and I then made our way to Mannheim and watch the SJ SHARKS play die Adler!!!! The announcer dude from the Tank was there along with Sharkie, and some important dude who sounded familiar... It was AWESOME. Miri and I sang the National Anthem alone with the singer. The first two periods were humiliating. I swear it was the Rampage out there... no offense but... ughh
The third period included 2 quick sharks goals for 2-1. Then, while 4 on 4, die Adler tied it up. With maybe 17seconds left, we scored but they disallowed it for some reason. The other real Sharks fans and i chanted "BULLSHIT." Eventually, the Sharks won in Shootout. The night was overall super ultra awesome.
SUNDAY:
Morning with the Bachs
We left for the main city by lightrail train. We got off and got tickets to the VfB Stuttgart gegen Frankfurt match! We then walked around Oktoberfest until the game. It was so cool. Huge-ass tents with beer and meat and boots and unbelievably drunk people. There were rides that looked so unsafe and huge. I had a currywurst that was SOOO good.
The football match was awesome. We had seats near the visitor corner so they yelled and threw stuff at us. It was incredibly entertaining. I loved it. VfB lost 2-1 but i still think the goal that was called offsides was okay and the score should've been 2-2. I've never seen so many police in riot suits.
That's all i can remember at the moment. i'll add more soon.
Ciao!
-Eddie
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