Week 1 of School

I started German language school on Monday in Zurich.  School starts at 10:00 am and to get there I have to take the bus, then the train, then the tram which takes about an hour.  It kind of sucks to wait so long to get to school, but at least the scenery is beautiful!

The public transportation here is very good.  The buses/trains/trams are always on time.  They are so on time that I can get off a train at 3:21 and make the bus at 3:27.  (Also, the buses don't smell bad here, so that's a plus!)  It's so different from Hawaii's buses which have arrival times that end only in 5 or 0 and are quite unreliable.

Language school is good for the most part.  It's a little difficult because the teacher only speaks to us in German which I can't understand very well yet, but I already know much more German than I did when I first got here.

On Thursday, I walked around Zurich with my school.  We got to see all the old, pretty buildings and the lake.  It was gorgeous!

On Friday, I went to an AFS welcome party for my area.  We went to Bremgarten and had a campfire by the river.  I got to meet the other exchange students in my area, and some of them will go to the same school as me.  We roasted sausages and pizza dough together.  I think this is the first campfire I've ever been to where we didn't have s'mores.

Until next time,

Tschuss!