Hi there!
Just to make the updating of my trips in Switzerland extremly short and fast, I decide to cut out the family activities I had and so on(which is a lot). I find such thing pretty private and I respect my Swiss family-that is basically why I do not post pictures of them -well, unless they ask me to. If you think that my Swiss family must be horrible, stop being silly! They all are lovely, that is why I visit them so often... Hehe... And of course that I truly love them!
Alright, so you have seen many parts of my trips in Switzerland now and it is time for the end. I spent the last night in Zürich, because I had to take the flight back to Norway very early. Luckily I have more contacts in Switzerland then what I have here in the little city called, Oslo. So I slept over at my friend's room, who studies in Zürich and also lives there. Ingrid is one of my awesome friends, who I went in the same class with in my exchange year. She is one of those seldom friends, who you never ever want to loose. During the exchange year, I had so much fun with her and even we meet later in our lives, we know that we will still have fun! If you, Ingrid, read this; I vows you! But I there is another friend of mines who tagged along to Zürich the day before my departure, Nathalie. She is in my earlier blogg, which is about the Christmas Market in Biel. I got known Nathalie from Ingrid, if I am not guessing completely wrong. She has such a lovely personality. She always takes care of her friends, and she smiles A LOT! I love hanging out with her, because she is such a good listener, which is perfect for me, because I talk a lot sometimes... I miss these two ladies a lot... Hoping that I will see them again soon.
I have also to mention what I did before I left the beautiful village, Twann. Ecept from that I packed my stuffs I made my host family two spicy and delicious dishes, so that they will think of when they are having them(Haha...). My host mum loves spicy food, so she sent me a message to tell me that it was very spicy and tasty. The cat, Cira, which appeared in my room as I was packing. How could it know that I was about to leave? It was so sad to know that my host family and even the cat will miss me when I am gone..
If I could sum up how happy I am with the stay from 1 to 10. I would totally say 20! Because I did everything I wanted to do. Skiing, ice-skating, doing trips, Christmas Market, visit my host grand parents, seeing my friends. I did not expect to go to school and meet some of the old mates and teachers I had or even attend the dancing class with my host sister as I did back then.. These made the stay even better! Everything was so worth it...
To see the pictures of Zürich and my friends, please CLICK HERE!
-Dancerwithoutshoes
May 1, 2011
Christmas visit in Switzerland(Geneva)
Have you missed me? I have truely missed you too! Oh, dear! It is long time ago. Last time I updated was the 1st January... Would you not like to hear where I have been since then? The answer is easy; London. When I think back in time, it seems like I have not been at home at all.. The time is passing away day by day and a lot has happened since the new year. Something tenses to happen too often, that I really got used to. And something special may show up, but then it dissapeared again... All I got left is the memory.
Geneva is a great city. By great, I mean it litterally great too, like "huge". Personally Geneva is one of my favourite cities in Switzerland. Here are some random facts that my swiss family and friends told me about the city: 1) Geneva is a great watch-city, many of popular watch brands come from this city. I know that Rolex own this city! 2) The UN office is placed there. As much as I know there are only two UN offices in the world, the other one is in New York, of course. 3) There is a french speaking canton, named Jura. The Jura mountain starts in Northern-Switzerland and ends in Geneva. Behind this mountain you can see France. 4) The Lake of Geneva is huge, probably one of the biggest(or perhaps the biggest) lake in Switzerland. 5) There are many Frenchmen who take the train to Geneva everyday just to go to work. It is because they earn much better in Switzerland.
I have been in Geneva a couple of time. I have been in the UN building, seen the conferance halls where the important represents from all over the world meet. I have been at the botanic garden, which is huge and you can find all types of plants. I have been walking around in the old city, which I cannot explain where it could be. I saw the University of Geneva from the distance. The old cathedral, the shopping street with popular brands' shop, like Louis Vuitton... I have seen the Flower Clock at Jardin Anglais(English Garden). I have seen Jet d'eau, the Water Fontain. This fontain is amazing, it was provided with an autonomous pumping station, propelling 500 litres of water per second to a height of 140 metres at a speed of 200 km per hour! Anyways, this time I went there with a friend of mine, Chris. He was my AFS-boss during my exchange year. After that we have been keeping contact untill the day today. It was really nice to see him again and it was so nice to update each other what we both have been up to since last time we met. We were pretty lucky, since we found a date which fits both of us to meet, I mean, 3 weeks are not that much...
I still have not figured out how I can post pictures here, since I have overused the photo-posting-limit... So, you will have to click on a link to watch the pictures. To watch pictures please CLICK HERE!
I promise not to take that long till the next time!
Dancerwithoushoes
Geneva is a great city. By great, I mean it litterally great too, like "huge". Personally Geneva is one of my favourite cities in Switzerland. Here are some random facts that my swiss family and friends told me about the city: 1) Geneva is a great watch-city, many of popular watch brands come from this city. I know that Rolex own this city! 2) The UN office is placed there. As much as I know there are only two UN offices in the world, the other one is in New York, of course. 3) There is a french speaking canton, named Jura. The Jura mountain starts in Northern-Switzerland and ends in Geneva. Behind this mountain you can see France. 4) The Lake of Geneva is huge, probably one of the biggest(or perhaps the biggest) lake in Switzerland. 5) There are many Frenchmen who take the train to Geneva everyday just to go to work. It is because they earn much better in Switzerland.
I have been in Geneva a couple of time. I have been in the UN building, seen the conferance halls where the important represents from all over the world meet. I have been at the botanic garden, which is huge and you can find all types of plants. I have been walking around in the old city, which I cannot explain where it could be. I saw the University of Geneva from the distance. The old cathedral, the shopping street with popular brands' shop, like Louis Vuitton... I have seen the Flower Clock at Jardin Anglais(English Garden). I have seen Jet d'eau, the Water Fontain. This fontain is amazing, it was provided with an autonomous pumping station, propelling 500 litres of water per second to a height of 140 metres at a speed of 200 km per hour! Anyways, this time I went there with a friend of mine, Chris. He was my AFS-boss during my exchange year. After that we have been keeping contact untill the day today. It was really nice to see him again and it was so nice to update each other what we both have been up to since last time we met. We were pretty lucky, since we found a date which fits both of us to meet, I mean, 3 weeks are not that much...
I still have not figured out how I can post pictures here, since I have overused the photo-posting-limit... So, you will have to click on a link to watch the pictures. To watch pictures please CLICK HERE!
I promise not to take that long till the next time!
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