Weeks 4 and 5

Not too much has happened in the last two weeks, so I decided to heap both weeks into one blog post. (Or, I'm just being lazy.  You decide.)

Two Sundays ago I went to a horse race with my host parents.  It was in the capital of my Kanton Aarau, Aargau.  There was a race about every half hour and in between races we went into a tent behind the stands for food and drinks.  The races are as much a social event as they are a sporting event.  It was very cool to watch, but what they don't tell you in movies is that it smells like pee and cigars.

After the horse race, I got to try fondue for the first time!  It was sehr gut.  We ate it all together and my host sister Julia and her boyfriend even came.  Afterward we all played cards together.

Last Wednesday was the last day of the language course in Zurich.  After school, a few of us went to a park by the lake and hung out for a while.  I'm sad that I won't get to see the other exchange students every week anymore, but hopefully we'll still see each other sometimes.

Last Saturday was my school's Tag der offnen Tur which is open house in German.  We had to wake up early on a Saturday to go to school, but it was okay because there were free croissants (which are SO GOOD HERE) and we only had three classes.

Next week is break (in which I will write college essays and a ten page research paper) and the next week is arbeitswoche!  It's a week where I'll go to Lausanne on the Genfersee (Lake Geneva) with my class and basically be a tourist.  I'm so excited!  I'll also get to be there for my birthday.

In other news, I've started reading Harry Potter in German!  I think it will help me with my Deutsch because I know those books inside and out.

Until next time,

Tschuss!