FULL MOON!!!!

so its been about 6 months since ive been in switzerland, and tonight was by far one of the best of so far. wanna know why???

well too bad im gonna tell you anyways! haha so tonight i went on night snow shoe tour (side note: i had to kinda think hard just then to write that last part in english...wow....) with my first host rents, erika & urs, my second host mom regina and regina's friend, her name just totallly left my mind. lol anyways, we started our adventure around 7 pm. we drove for about an hour to the schwarzsee area, in the near from fribourg. it was an interesting car ride bc they mainly talked in swiss german which now im beginning to understand so its worth my time to listen. its like a game i play with myself. who's saying what? haha its fun and it keeps me occupied, otherwise my wonders, which isnt always bad but sometimes it wonders too far.

anyways, we finally arrived at our destination at around 8. we drove up a good portion of the mountain on this little road. you really arent supposed to drive on this road, but since it was night time, my host dad drove on it anyways. he said there wouldnt be any people around and he was actually totally right!! so we just parked in the road. haha there wasnt that much snow. but enough for us to do our tour. so we put on our boots, by the way i have officially worn Swiss Army Boots!! ha beat that!! :) and then we put on our special snow shoes basically made of plastic and metal. they look rather funny!! haha

the weather was GORGEOUS!!! it was clear and crisp and as always rather cold. but luckily i had several layers on, including the infamous bright purple snow pants that i borrow from my first host fam. haha as always i didnt match but ive learned to get over that bc i basically have no choice!! haha for the first bit it wasnt too hard. but after about 30 mins or so, it got really difficult. i had to go behind my host dad in order to make it easier to walk. i got a little scared because it was sooooooooo steep!! i then started tearing up, being on your period doesnt really help the situation either. but i quickly got over that bc then we were almost to the top and the worst part was finally behind me.

everything was breathtaking after that. we were in the same area as the first time i went snow shoeing. i cant even begin to describe how amazing the mountains look in moonlight. i had tried to get a good picture by playing around with the settings on my camera. but was just getting nothing. it kinda made me angry bc i wanted to share god's beauty with yall. however, it then donned on me that god wants me to just take in his beauty for myself. i know that sounds selfish but thats what i thought. i guess more or less i thought of it in the sense that god wants us to simply enjoy his creation, nothing else. no photos or anything. so thats what i did. i enjoyed the beautiful full moon, snowy mountains, and shining stars.

so then we walked down the other side of the mountain to where a house was, and there we had CHEESE FONDUE outdoors on top of a mountain!!!! sooooo gorgeous! and gemuetlich!!!!(pleasant) like it was just amazing!! it was a little cold but thats okay, i have pretty much have gotten used to the cold now. we had warm tea as well. and then for desert we had fruit salad which was delicious!!

i just couldnt stop loooking at the scenery bc it was sooo gorgeous. then my host fams started singing german songs....so naturally i just listened bc i didnt know the songs. but it was nice listening to them. haah then i tried calling mom to wish her happy birthday from a mountain but she didnt bother picking up her phone and i tried several places...work, cell and home. crazy!!! by the way....mom did you get my messages??

so then we made our way down the mountain which is always the fun part!! i even led the way....which wasnt too hard!! haha i basically just kept walking and i figured if i did something wrong my host rents would say something. haha

but all in all this was a good evening.....something to definetly remember!! and i also had a good convo with god. gotta love those!!!

well hope all is well with you!!! much love!!! ♥

half a year....

wow...6 months ago today i arrived in switzerland!! wow that seems soo long ago, but yet at the same time it seems just like yesterday that i couldnt speak a word of german. its amazing what 6 months in country does to you!! nothing bad of course. :)

i have really enjoyed my time here so far! its absoultely amazing!! :) the experiences are truely unforgettable!! i know i know... that sounds cliche but its the truth!

so an update on life.....

i have been in my second host family for about 1 month now. its really different from my first host family but im enjoying the change. i now live in a old apartment. its absoulty adorable!!! its sooo old and just cute! haha i love her decorating style too! so its just me and a host mom! which has been absolutely fun! she has a GA too(its the card that allows to travel all over switzerland with the public transportation!) so she goes lots of places!! she has two daughters, however Magdalena is in ecuador on exchange, and Meret lives in solothurn which is about 30 mins from burgdorf. Meret is currently in brazil doing some kind of work camp or something. and then she will go visit Magdalena as well. Meret is really nice, i have gotten to know her just a little bit before she left. Regina, my host mom will meet up with the girls in march in ecuador. Regina will be gone for a month so I will probably go back to my first host family or something like that.

i learned to ski as well in the swiss alps!! it was amazing!! i only fel twice...once while actually skiing and the other while on this small sit lift. i dont know the word in english...its sessellift in german though! :) haha anyways...my first host brother's girlfriend is ski instructor and so she came with me and taught me stuff!! it was soo much fun! ill never forget that! skiing isnt that hard either. its really enjoyable. you go faster each time which is the best part!! haha but i did almost run into several people...but somehow i was graceful enough to avoid them!! haha but when i did fall, i wasnt graceful...i was stuck in the snow for so long bc i couldnt figure how to get up!! its harder than you think to pull yourself up out of the snow! haha but anyways...it was truely an experience to remember!!! something ill probably never get to do again in my life.

recently i have been going to ICF(International Christian Fellowship) with a friends from my schoool. i didnt really like going before because everything was in Swiss German and i could barely understand high german so it wasnt really beneficical to me. However, now i understand German completly fine and even understand a little bit of Bernense German, so i started going with my friend again. Well this past sunday, they had a speaker named Bill Wilson at the service. and omg he was amazing!! it truely felt like home! He started a huge sunday school service for children in the ghettos in New York. His story is amazing. Anyone else heard of him? just curious. His ministry is called Metro Ministries and they have ministries all ove the world i think. but it was soo awesome bc there were sooo many people there!! it was nuts!! i think they even had to turn down some people bc there simply wasnt room for everyone. So it was a cool experience, he spoke english with a person translating everything he said. it was really funnny, bc my reaction was earlier than most peoples. haha but all in all his message was good. god uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. i would love to go to new york to visit his sunday school and maybe even work there or something. but ya it was an amazing experience. im really glad God put it on my heart to start going back there. plus it also gives me a chance to get to know my friend deborah better. she's really cool and i dont know what id do without her. she's been the one person who has helped me the most in class and what not.

wow i wrote too much...haha well i havent written in a while so i guess thats why...well i will try to post some pics up maybe. haha but not with this post! srry!! haha

well hope all is well in texas!

much love! ♥

oh and im gonna be 19 in two days!! crazyyyyyyyy!! man time flies!!