Hello all from the wonderful country of Switzerland. I have the most amazing view from my window... Even better than the one I had in Washington! (Which was still an amazing view, if my host family from there is reading this, but we’ve got a mountain and a lake here... Besides, it’s Switzerland, lol...) All I have to do is walk out the terrace for some break-taking views.
We got there on the travel day, a little early. So Raphael took us on a short tour of the city of Luzern. It was really nice to see him and Benjamina again, after they’ve been gone so long. We walked down a couple of very pretty bridges and found a Starbucks. :sweat: Once we got back, we were surprised to find that my roommates (Samantha and Vanessa) and I actually had an American host family. We were hosted by David and Gretchen Cantor in a very nice little house right by the water. The host family codes were all different kinds of chocolate, making it even better.
It was nice to be able to eat my own portions for once. My stomach was still so full from Milano that I could barely eat any of the dinner in Luzern! But it was really good. :sweat:
On Tuesday we had a really amazing experience! Thanks to an alumni connection, we got a free trip to and up Mt. Pilatus! Since I wrote the cast blog entry on that day, you can check the cast blog for most of it. There was one really funny thing that happened that I omitted though. When we were on the Toboggans, I was actually following the signs telling me when to break. So when Adam and Grant came up behind me, they were both yelling at me to go faster. :XP: Well, Karma then came around to bite Adam... When we were going up the hill again, carried by the track and a cord attached to our sled, Adam fell off. Not when we were sledding down, but when we were being carried back up. And then his sled fell off the cord, so he had to carry it all the way up the hill. It’s karma, I tell ya. Karma.
Our host family took us out to dinner at a really good vegetarian restaurant. I had some kind of potato that was really really good. And even more yummier was the Danmark Coupe desert that I had. It was basically just ice cream with hot fudge sauce, but it’s Swiss hot fudge sauce. And they gave it to me in a little container that I could pour on as much as I wanted to.
Let’s just say Memory was in heaven.
Wednesday we had a CI day, but I was signed out for admissions. I worked on the cast blog all day! I got those three new posts up and running for the blog (including my post for Mt. Pilatus) and then I finished up my own blog entry for Milano. I was pretty much working up till the last few minutes... Trying to find pictures and have them resized and all that jazz. Also, trying to find the posts for several of the previous cities in other people’s blogs was hard... Since half of our blogs are in a different language or they simply didn’t write enough on that city. :sweat: But I finally was able to pull what I needed out of Hanna’s and Matt’s blogs.
For dinner our host family let us make Raclette, which is basically just cheese and potatos, but they’re really cool to make. And really good, lol. It’s a traditional Swiss dinner, so it’s all good.
Thursday was another CI day, but I was signed out again. :( It’s okay though, cause I got to be in vocals! I haven’t been able to do them for a while now. But none of the seconds knew the part of the new song for the Netherlands (there were only two of us) and we couldn’t get the words right either. :sweat: So it was a really tough session... Especially since we worked pretty much all day. :sweat:
We had a longer day on Thursday because we had the Expression Session! Yay! It was lots of fun, since most of us participated. I think the best acts were the interns imitating the staff, the guys singing Hana, and the staff making fun of us on a show day. :XD I also had a song... But since I was still kind of sick and the original song I had planned was really hard on my voice. So instead I sang two shorter songs accapella. I sang 1,000 Words from FF X-2 (crappy game in my opinion, but good music) and Home, Sweet Home from FF V. Yyyup. Both were Final Fantasy songs. And so was my original song for that matter... :sweat: I can’t help it if they just have good music. The most amusing thing was the titles we got from the mc’s... they were all circus things, lol. I was the magician, hence the title of this entry.
The next day was show day! Yay! Yeah... :stare: Okay, it wasn’t that bad, lol. But it was a fairly normal show day by this point, so there’s not much to say about it. We did have an awesome audience though.
They gave us a standing ovation for We’ll Be There. And it was so wicked to see all of them up and dancing with is for the Swiss song. :XD We also had like, a ton of alumni in the audience. So when we invited them to come up on stage, it was completely full! I think there had to be at least fifty alumni in the audience... We sold about 100 tickets to alumni and their families, so who knows, lol. There were just a lot of them. It was really great having them on stage with us too.
Our host family day was really wicked, because we went up into the Alps. I’m not quite sure which mountain we were on (it was the one with the maple leaf and a heart in it, but I can’t remember the name), but it was an amazing view. You can actually look at all the pictures that I uploaded. :XD We didn’t actually make it up to the top, but we did have lunch/dinner at a very nice restaurant mid-way. We also met a very friendly cat (which you can also see in the pictures) and walked through a Christmas tree grave yard (very bouncy, walking on all the branches, lol). I think the rest of the day is much better described through the pictures though, so I’ll leave the rest of the mountain at that. We did watch a rugby match when we got back though, which was pretty amusing. :XD
Saying good-bye to our host families is always sad, but once again we are on the road! Yay for our next stop in Germany!
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