Hair straightener

My hair straitner while pluged in but not on more or less just exploded.
WHAT
Thats what I get for not using it since my graduation.

Happy Thanksgiving

So I am actualy celebrating Thanksgiving this Saturday but this is a post for all my USA readers!
I hope you have an amazing Thanksgiving surrounded by the ones you love and you truely realize how fortunate we all are.

I am most thankfull this year for my exchange opertunity and all the friends and family I have aquired in just 4 short months.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey Day

I am sorry. I just had to.

Packing #2

So 4 months ago I was packing up my room in Cali to move to switzerland and let a girl from Italy move in.
Today I am packing because this saturday I move to my second host family.
I got the feels guys!
And gosh I honastly didnt think I had baught so much while here.... My suit cases and excess things that cant fit are proving me oh so wrong.
I cant imagine packing to go to the third family.... Let alone back to USA....

Parent teacher night

Well this is actualy a really boring post.
The night was not a big deal except I had to talk infront of everyone in german. No big deal haha

American style chocolatechip cookies

Thank so much Hotchkiss family and Donna once again for my package and the cookie ingrediance!!!! They tasted like home!!! Incredible!

Onion Festival

I woke up at 4:30am and met a girl from school in bern at 6:00 for the yearly onion fest. Its huge and crazy. They sell all kinds of stuff like a big festival/ famers market celebration!!!
We took tons of pictures, froze our butts off, drank coffee and mulled wine, ate garlic bread, and baught candy necklaces.

The venders were selling huge bags of confetti so people were running around throwing confetti at you (once got in my nose and mouth and everyone laughed at me... Even myself)

watched a bird hit a window

Was ordering my mulled wine in german (a language with 3 main ways to say "A" ((like... I would like a.....))depending on the word) and i didnt know exactly which to use so i guessed and said
"ein wine"
and the vender looks and me and says "einE??!!!" i nodded feeling silly
Then the guy pooring the wine says to me "einEN wine....(long pause....) UNO"
i just about died of confusion, emberasment, and laughter!

soooo tired but a great day and a great weekend!

Matterhorn

Saturday- Sunday I along with over 100 other rotary exchange students went to Zermatt and got to eat fondue, have snowball fights, give away pins, go for walks at midnight with fire torches, go to the Klein Matterhorn and "chill" in -15degree C. go for a scavangerhunt, take pictures, freeze, shop, and have fun.

This weekend was amazing.

Not even December

Bus stop meetings

Today I had to wait a half hr in the snow for my bus and I met this girl at the bus stop and we spoke german together and then she said something that I totally didnt understand so I just gave her a confused look and she asked if it.was better to speak English I said yes (the fallowing said in English)

"was i that obvious???"

"no your german is very good. Do you come from Holland?"

I guess I went from hurt to flattered in a matter of moments hahaha!

(pic from my bus stop, you have all hopefully seen the pics from summer)

Snow snow snow

Today the snow reached the lower hills around my area meaning it was snowing at the train station. Yes I am pretending I am on the polar express. No I dont feel childish about it!

:)

Host mom

So I come gome at 5:30pm to an empty home..... Very unusual for this family at this time for an empty house. I call my host mom but no answer. I call my host dad and he tells me he is at the hospital with my host mom who broke her ankle!!!! Nonweight baring for 6weeks!!!! And I leave here in 2 weeks so I wont we around to help! Prayers and best wishes to my host mom and family!

Oh train life

So there is a special train after language school going to my station every week, this week a lady sat next to me and spoke weird slurred german and I admitted to only speaking english and she admitted to being drunk and not sure if this was her train (but in english). I told her it was the wrong.train and she thanked me. She was a funny lady hahahahahaha.

So happy

So today isnt going amazing.... I went into the city to shop and meet friends today and braught a small contrainer of my liquid medicine with me for lunch and it opened and spilled and theres no way to go home for more. Then I broke my host brothers phones that he lent me for my exchange.... Just the.screen and it still works but I feel so bad!

But
I am just so happy to be back feeling better!!!!

let it snow let it snow let it snow

A period of absents

Hi readers

As some of you may or may not have know. Since October 26th I had a flu like sickness where I couldnt hold any food I ate and even drank. So for weeks I have been very sick and very week. I went to the dr twice, got many tests done, and finally on this past saturday my host family took me to the hospital. I went to the hospital because my body was so lacking fluids that if I continued this way I would have organ failure. So for four days I have been in the hospital but I just checked out and i feel great. I am on a medicine to help me hold food so I can eat.
I didnt make this public knowledge because when a person says they are in the hospital it is assumed they are dying or having surgery. Well I was completely not in serious condition (just if it had been left untaken care of would I have been in trouble).

So I am sorry if I have been ignoring messages. This past month has just been too overwelming and I look forward to replying to you all know that I am healthy and back home!

Thank you everyone who also sent prayers my way! It ment alot!

P.S. My room had a view of the Thun castle. I was a happy camper!!!!

Low point

Put pillows on my host cat and called it a fort..... This is a low point of my boredness.
Should probably get a book to read.

Snow!

Another day with snow!!!!
Only a little but it is pretty!

Over 2,000 views!

Thank you all for your views and support!

Commonly asked question

(Here is my fallow up post to my host fam)

I am commanly asked to write posts about my families and my school friends. All the people who ask are family and friends from home so you would think sure why not, of course I will post about them!!! Ok false. This is a public blog. Anyone in the world with a computer and such can read it.
My blog writing is for me and about me because I am concered of the privacy of my swiss friends and family. I dont really dwell on this, it is just very natural for me not to post such personal things! I also do not post my entire life story here because as I said before this is very public. This is no diary. This is just a mini blog that I am keeping while here so I can look back and remember all the little things!

I will though, put in more effort to tell you more about my life here and not just the cows and spiders ;)

Host family + blog

Host family #1 are officialy blog readers!!!! A little late to the party but here is my warm blog welcome post!
(which will lead to a fallow up post coming asap about a commanly asked question)

Welcome to my blog Walthers! I hope you enjoy it!!!!!

Host cat

My host cat has poor table manners when we have guests over.

Castle

Watching the detective tv show Castle (in German).....
its like the summer I spent with my.mom all over again!

What did I just see

Sitting home sick on the sofa when there is a ridiculous amount of MOOing... (even for switzerland) going on outside the window...
I turn around to find this... A tractor pulling a cow behind it down a street. Yep folks this happened.

Package #2 from home

Thank you Mommy Daddy and Donna!
nothing like a package from home to make a little time of illness better!
from trurkey stuffing, to doritos, ingeridance to make chocolatechip cookies, boots, make up, enchilada sauce, taco seasoning, peeps, a decorated box, and so much more!
Thank you thank you THANK YOU

God Winks

So how to even describe what happened to me today... I will try.

I just got out of having to take physics (a 1 hr and 30 min class) that would end right before my 50minute lunch. So with about 2hrs 20minutes for no reason I desided to go to Bern. There are tuns of trains going there every minute.

I missed 2 trains by seconds so I was forced to take a half hr train insted of a twenty minute train.

I am on this train writing my mother an email. Moments before the doors close a class of 3rd graders and their teachers barley make it. In english, i hear them say how they were so happy to have made this train and how lucky they were.

All the kids and teachers are speaking english.
I was pretty confused and curious.
I desided to write my mom later insted and go talk to the teachers.

The teachers where from america working for the international school in Bern. They offered for me to come tour the school and work with the kids. I am to call the principal and I will mostlikely get a job! With possible pay!!! Then one of the teachers said she would hook me up with the high school students too and the other teacher has an 18 year old daughter whom she wants me to hangout with sometime.

The school goes on feildtrips and all kinds of other activities i am now invited to!

I mentioned how i worked with kids for 6 years at my church and they told me where i can find an english service in bern!!!!and this saturday there is a religion festival in all participating bern churches with information about all kinds of religions with refreshments that are traditional to that specific culture!

So to sum up:
decided to go to bern for no reason
Missed two trains
Met american teachers who bearly made this train
Got invited to the.school
And high school
I may get a small job
Found where there is an english church service

I am beyond excited people

Faking I know German

So I am on my train to school when I sneeze and a woman near by says "bless you" (in german) and I respond with the swiss german "thank you" a few minutes later she comes over with a bike light that looks brooken and is talking to me in german and I understand nothing so I just keep saying things in german "i have no clue" "oh yes" "nooo" basicaly for almost 5 minutes till she went away and wished me a good day and I said for her to have one too. Faking I know German is hard work.

Kids

There is a little boy about 4 who is singing "we will rock you" as if hes a rock star but when he says Rock You... It sounds like F#ck you. My giggeling right now is slightly rediculous.
Now he has a crowed of kids singing it too hahahaha

My room is a crime scene

So this morning I woke up to find little puddels of blood all across my bedroom floor! Ewwwwww

Turns out i either cut my foot or they cracked or something and i just never noticed. Then after cleaning it my lip cracked and started to bleed!!! Ew ew ew ew.

No amount of lotion or chapstick is helping me. Sigh.

3 months

I have officialy been in Switzerland 3 months as of today. So hard to believe! It feels like a matter of weeks! SLOW DOWN exchange!!!!
1/4 of exchange already over.

Clothes

Off to my host fathers singing concert. Here is my fashion for the night