Merry Christmas

Celebrating with Christmas music.

And grandmother of the year goes to...

But really. Switzerland... Europe in general has a smoking problem.

Early christmas

So this year I celebrated christmas slightly unconventionaly, we celebrated yesterday. In the morning I selpt in then made a mac and cheese brunch for my self, decorated the small Christmas tree (with... get this.... reall candles!!!) Then I went to Bern where I met up with about 5 other exchange students and we looked at the christmas market. Came back to Thun and went to town for a half hr then back home and people came over for christmas. My host mom and her sister played songs on the flute. There was even a bernese mountin dog. It was a great day.

Slipping it under my host sisters door.

Happy birthday host dad

Host dads birthday yesterday so we went to an American western bar for burgers and then upstairs was a small bowling alley. Had a great time. Turns out real bowling is harder than wii bowling... Who would have thunk?!

Lets just not safety first #2

Same kids back jumping on the frozen pond but this time someone had the bright idea to throw big chuncks of rock at it.

#darwin'stheory

Chem class

Made chapstick and lotion in chem class today.
Guess what your Christmas gift is Laura!!

Email #2

Hope Im not jinxing this but..... Email seems to be back working!

Great quality

Here is a great quality picture of the moon this morning. Totally instagram worth! My phone take the best pictures.

Only human

You cant bring a sweet cute dog to class and expect me to to pay attention to it!!!

Test taking

So in my two hr physics class we had the last test. After 30 minutes i had finished translating all that I could leaving an hr and a half. So I drew my teacher a picture with a snowman, jesus in the stable, a gingerbreadman, and a christmas tree and I wrote Merry Christmas on it. I Aced that test OBVIOUSLY!

Sledding

Host sister took me sledding in a famous town with an hr long sled run! Unfortunatley the weather was very nice and that means little snow cutting the run to half an hr. We still had a great time.

Mondays

Mondays in the states and mondays in Switzerland mean the same thing: work and school. Unless we are talking about this week where it means the first day off with vacation and for me in switzerland it means still school.

Six calls one txt

So yesterday Im in grman class and my phone keeps ringing. After like the third call I slip a peak to see who it is. My host sister! this must be important! She then txted me saying to pick up my phone. After three more calls i ask my teacher if I may get this call from my host family. (me thinking something must be wrong)

Well, my host sister called because she forgot her key to the hause and needed mine. (grrrrrr)
lucky for her i have a half hr left of class then i was going home for lunch anyways.

So we go home (me slightly peeved) and I tell her she is lucky I dont know how to explain what happened in german to my host parents.
(back round anytime I do something emberessing she tells my family and they tease me! so its like a game now)
She tells me she DARES me to tell them (thinking no way in hell i know that german)

So i come home after school and host mom asked if i had seen my host sister and like God giving me the words I told her the story of the forgotten key! I dont even know how i did it!

Laura 6
Elizabeth 1
(not that I am keeping score)

Lets just not "saftey first"

So yesterday saw there kids playing on the frozen school pond. There may or may not also have been some jumping.

email

Email is down. I dont know why, when it shut off or when it will be on again. Facebook messages are suggested untill I post that my email is up again.

Sigh

Wake up at six to go to school for english. Get there and the teacher says to leave because they are taking a test. So no first class which is an hour and a half and my second period is free meaning I could have slept in like three hourse hours today.
Well then.

Christmas in/to Italy

So I leave Christmas morning and my host family (the second family now) and I are going to drive to Italy. We are going to Santa Maria Italy. Crazy! (If you know me then you know why the name is important). Yes spaghetti and pizza for Christmas dinner. No thats not  joke.
:D

A winter day, snow to play

Little bread people

Host mom and I cooked specail christmas bread. She made a sort of santa and I made a little girl

Old. Mexican food.

Made my host sister.Enchiladas and fresh salsa. I got her thumbs up to cook when ever I wish haha. For me it was pretty bad because in Switzerland I had to replace cheddar/ Mexican cheese with pizza cheese. But my sister doesn't know better!
;)

The salsa was great though!

Busy elves

Today my new host mom and I baked two kinds of traditional Christmas cookies and two of the traditional Swiss bread Sopf.

Then we went for a walk by the lake because the weather was so nice. Dont let the sunshine fool you, it was still very cold haha