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!!
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