HAPPY SUISSE NATIONAL DAY!! BONNE FETE SUISSE!!! Today is the National Swiss Day...which means...not a lot. It's a day for the Suisse to get off work and walk around the lake. I'm midway through and so far it just seems like any other weekend. BUT fireworks tonight and food all day, soooooo that sounds like a sweet deal to me! I'm only JUST starting to remove the cheese caked to the sides of my stomach from last blog's description of Gruyere. Delicious b...

I WENT TO WHERE THE CHEESE COMES FROM!! Also called, EXPLAINING CANADA TO EUROPE Today, sadly, or happily (depends on how you look at it) I had my FINAL "thing" for French before I'm done like dinner! It was a question that asked me to respond to a friend's letter saying that she had just gotten married and that she was moving away to Canada ("Ontario" to be specific...sort of...). She had big plans of marrying her lumberjack husband (ac...

WHOA!! DOUBLE BLOG ACTION DAY!! LUCKY!! (double blog as in i felt it was necessary to write two! check out the other one also!) So I figured it was necessary to feature a blog about something the Swiss do very well...Food. The Swiss manage their food by the season, having warm stuff in the winter (obvs) and other stuff in the summer (also obvs). After being here for a month, I've compiled a list of food that I've found delicious, and food that isn't...well ...

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUUUUUUUUSIIIIIIIIC!! So today I decided to take a ME day and retreat to the mountains. I booked a train to Grindelwald, near Interlaken, which is smack in the middle of the Swiss Alps, complete with Heidi and cows with bells on them!! There are absolutely no words to describe the beauty that is the Alps. f*** comes close. Holy s***, holy s***, holy s*** holy s*** comes at a close second. But it was something you have ...

TING TINGS, SAD THINGS, AND ZURICH Continuing in my Disney en Français saga, I'm now watching Fantasia 2000, the cheap knockoff of the original Fantasia. I figure I'll work my way up to the best. But there are whales in the 2000 version so that's a SERIOUS plus! Anways, enough rambling...School for a lot of the students this week was over. They've done their two weeks and are peacing out to go back to their respective Swiss corners. Leaving me and the rest...