I guess I haven't posted since forever August/July/summertime, right? I am currently living in Paris and writing about it here, on the internets, if you'd like to see..... I'm sorry!
So even though I love being here in Switzerland, it gets lonely. You know, the bit where you don't speak the language and stuff... So the parents and I looked up sailing and found these French adventure camps that let you do whatever you like. As in, African dance or horseriding or parachuting off of mountains. And one of their other options is
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We were all going to go somewhere exciting for a long weekend this weekend, but both my father and I are sick from maybe drinking water on the mountain last weekend.... and it's raining. So right now, especially since my sister is at a friend's house, it's nice to just have the bed to myself and lie here with my computer. God, I'm a boring
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In Switzerland, this is very true. This past weekend started with a delicious dinner of homemade pasta and white wine at a brasserie in Lausanne, and just got better from there. On Saturday we visited the castle that the Disney castle is based on (so says Caleb, anyways) and drove far up into the German-speaking mountains. When we woke up on
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So, the parents and I agreed that while I was here, I should take a French class. My reasons were meet people and not be in the house all day. Their reasons were learn French and not be in the house all day. Given the common undertones, it seemed like a good idea. However. I took a placement test and found out that I was at the end of
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Yesterday we went to Montreux, another (nicer) town near other (better) mountains. We climbed up a HUGE hill that a funicular (sp?) usually takes people up and went to have lunch in Alpine meadows before climbing back down through moss-covered gorges by waterfalls. When we got back to the town (the top part, near the mountains), we stopped at a
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So, the Salif Keita concert last night was incredible. Random people in the audience kept climbing onto the stage and dancing with him and the rest of their band. We were originally sitting in the balcony, but my little sister and I went downstairs to dance with the crazy Malian groupies. This is the second really great concert I've seen at the
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Today my brother and I went to watch the France-Mexico World Cup game. Which was ridiculously disappointing - for me, at least. Nothing happened in the first half, except that France was playing a bit better than Mexico was, and then all of a sudden Mexico scores two goals in the second half. I was not pleased. I don't understand half of what's
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Some of you may have heard about the fire on Prince street Monday night/early Tuesday morning. That was right next to our house, and our house then also caught fire, so we've got a ton of smoke and water damage and we're kind of unable to live in our house for about a month, probably. Yeah....we're not as bad off as our neighbors, though, thank
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