As the end of March comes to a close, it is now time again to write the monthly blog post. Its been a crazy month. After a long and snowy winter Spring has finally arrived to Switzerland. Like every month there have been adventures and plenty of new experiences. March has been a good month, but the slowest of the seven months I have been here. With only three new cantons I have seen to I have a lot more adventuring to do in the last three months of my exchange.
So lets start with the last Rotex weekend of the year in Engleberg, during the last weekend of February. I started the weekend sick, I had been sick the week before but I wasn't going to miss out on the weekend just because I had a bad cold. I met all the other exchange students in Luzern, where we then over crowded a train to Engelberg. Once we arrived in Engelberg, which was covered in snow we had to walk with all our winter gear to the house we were going to spend the night at. After settling in we headed up to the mountain, with gondolas to go tubing and sledding. We played in the snow all afternoon, ate pasta for dinner, and stayed up all night talking and partying. In the morning after far too little sleep we went ice skating before taking the long train ride home.
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| Jess, Me, and Kim on the rink. |
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| Ice Skating! |
My friend Emma and I love to adventure to new cantons in Switzerland, and a few weeks ago we ventured to canton Glarus, one of the neighbor canton of Uri. Even though, Galrus is one of my neighboring cantons it still took us over two hours to reach the small mountain town. We had to take a big circle around the alps and change trains five times. Once we got there, we realized that there really isnt very much to do in Glarus or much open, as it was Sunday. We found the beautiful old church, ate paprika chips in the park, and found a little cafe for some coffee and bought a postcard before setting off for home.
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| In Canton Glarus, with Emma. |
In early January new Rotary Exchange students came to Switzerland, we call them newbies and most of them are from Australia. I spent a day in Zurich with some of the newbies and some other friends exploring the city and eating ice cream in a park. It was a beautiful day, once of the first warm ones this year.
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| Just playing on the swings in Zurich. |
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| Charlie's Angels. |
Last weekend, I ventured to Frauenfeld canton Thurgau with two friends of mine. We spent our day walking through town and enjoying the nice Spring weather. We stumbled upon a castle tower that is now a museum that had no entrance fee! It was a great day a new canton, a new town, and another castle.
Its hard to believe that its already April, and that I don't have much more time in Switzerland. I've made a bucket list of the things I want to see before I go home and I am really trying to make the best of the time I have left. The next few months are going to fly by, my birthday is coming up, I'm going to Paris and Milan in May, and school is out in June. There are a lot of major events coming up and I plan to enjoy every minute of it.
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| Sitting in a castle tower with Madi <3 |
