I was in school for two weeks and then we had fall break. It was soo nice. The swiss kids had been in school since the beginning of august so they were ready for break!!! Fall break started the 14th of September and ended the 14th of October. I am not going to go into detail of what all i did during fall break bc that would take too long!! So here is a short ist of what i did:
Hung out with Becca, Kristen and Maggie several times(they are other exchangers)
Shoppping in Bern, several times, once with natasha and then a couple of times with Deborah and Alisa, swiss friends from schoool. we also got starbucks!! hmm! yumm!!!! except its really expensive.
Two trips to Basel, once with Maggie, Kristen and the AFSers, and another time with Becca, Kristen and Mitch. I bought a really cute outfit from New Yorker in Basel. Its just a plain black babydoll style dress/jumper. I also bought a really cute shirt for only 8 franks!! whoo!!
Dying Hair/Sleepover at Kristen's house in Hochdorf, near Luzern. Girls present: Becca, Kristen, Maggie, Ana, Genesis, and me! We died Becca's and Kristen's hair, well actually technically Genesis did. haha she also cut Kristen's hair. She did a super job on both of the girls!! It was a really fun day bc it was just girls!! haha
Golden Pass trips, its a scenic train ride through the mountains. The first one i took was with Maggie, Kristen and Becca, we went from Luzern to Interlaken! absolutely gorgeous!! especailly with all the fall colors!!! nothing like texas! haha we then had a picinic in Interlaken and had a HUGE chocolate bar!! its was sooo pleasant! haha the second Golden Pass Train I took was from Spiez to Montreuz via Zweissemmen. this time it was just me and nelly! It was another GORGEOUS train ride!! the colors are soo amazing!! we then had a picinic in Montreux on the lake!. We also had gelato!! it was sooo delicious!! picinicing is like my new favorite thing to do here!! there are so many pretty towns so its really nice to see them!!
of course my trip to germany as well, but you can read about that in the previous post.
I visted my host sisters in Lausanne! It was really fun. Their apartments are really neat!! I got to see some of Lausanne. I also got to go the Knie, which is a famous circus here in switzerland. It was all in french so i definelty didnt understand what they were saying. But it was stil quite enjoyable!!! i wasnt allowed to take pictures. :( but it still was really amazing!!
I also took a trip to Ticino which was really fun. I stayed with a friend of my host dad's. She had the cutest little girls. They were trilingual and they were only 6 and 8 years old. They could speak Italian, French and German! I was soo amazed and jealous!!
Sunday, 14th of October, i went on a hike with my host family and it was absolutely amazing!! i climbed to the very top of the mountain!! It was soo amazing!! The view was absolutely breathtaking!!! I uploade some pics from the hiking trip: here is the link: http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2001523&l=0f2fe&id=1517040103
So ya that was my fall break...
oh and yesterday, the 15th of oktober, after school, i went to dudingen and hung out with alice and nelly. we baked or tried to bake american chocolate chip cookies. they didnt taste anything like american chocolate chip cookies. they tasted like bread with some chunks of chocolate in them. Nelly also made sugar cookies and she had a pumpkin cookie cutter and icing!! we decorated the pumpkins!! it was really funn!!!
so here are some links to pictures:
Basel Trip #1
http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2001467&l=4096a&id=1517040103
Basel Trip #2
http://hs.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2001471&l=1d381&id=1517040103
Those are the only pics i have posted so far. I will try to get some more pics uploaded soon.
Well hope all is well in your part of the world!!
much love and god bless!!!
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Dear Amarette,
We just got done looking at all your pictures and we are envious of all the places you have been. It is so gorgeous, what a life you are having. You sound and look so happy. Are you still planning to come back? I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to stay longer. Dad misses you very much and still wants to come see you sometime in 2008. When would be the best time? We know you are busy and that we won't be able to be with you every day but if you could look at your schedule and make sure you don't have any outings or time away when we might be there. Let me know. What sized jeans do you wear and where should I buy them? They say the low risers are on the way out and the new styles are a little higher. Probably a good idea but nothing ever stays the same so sooner or later the styles will change again. Let me know pretty quick because it will take awhile to get to you. Also, with the time for travel since that may take awhile and we need to find out what the costs will be. We would stay at a hotel or inn of some kind, we don't expect your host parents to take care of us although we want to meet everyone and I would love to be able to go to the rotary meeting.
Lorraine found out on Friday that she has breast cancer. She is going in next week for an MRI to see what the options are for getting rid of it. Please pray for her that the cancer is contained and that they can just scoop it out and she will be cured of it. Sometimes they can just remove the tumor but more often they remove the whole breast and sometimes both if they think it can come back in the other healthy breast. She is handling this but I know she is frightened. Use your faith and your prayers for God to heal her and to guide her doctors to be skillful and remove every bit of cancer in her. I hate to give you bad news but your prayers along with everyone else's can only help her. I am busy getting started with my new office in Bandera. They started it already and will be pouring the slab next week. I will have lots ahead of me to get it up and running. The biggest thing is getting agents to staff it and good agents. My Boerne office is okay but I also need to hire a couple of good agents there as well. We need to increase our business to grow and growing is what it is all about especially when you want to take trips and remodel your house and build new offices. The house is almost done as far as what I am willing to do for now. The painting of the inside was a long time to get done and very frustrating but now they are gone and I have rearranged the furniture and re hung the paintings and it looks very nice. I am happy with it. Next week is Thanksgiving and Lorraine is having the dinner at her house. Richard and Deline are coming and the kids, Edna and Bill. James and Amy are still too frantic to make the 5 hours trip with the kids and besides they have all been sick. It seems they never get better before the next one gets sick again. We will miss them very much but we will be going there for Christmas and will see them then. I am about to fix breakfast for me and Dad and then he is going out to chop wood. We love you very much and look forward to seeing you. Let me know about the jean sizes so I can go shopping this week. God bless you and have a great Thanksgiving even though they don't celebrate there.
Love you sooooo much.
Dad and me
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