February 10, 2008

Je suis fatigue.

It's about 9:30 am on Sunday morning and I'm writing mostly to pass some time. This weekend was fairly low key. Friday night a few of us went into Nyon to a couple of bars and had a fun time, they helped me drink away my homestay sorrows (haha more on that later). Then yesterday I spent most of the day working on a paper and then went to get my haircut. That was an experience - try explaining how you want your hair to look when the hair cutter doesn't speak a word of English (no worries, it worked out fine). Last night, a few of us went to Kellen's homestay apt because his family was out of town all weekend and so we had a mini-party there. Me, Chris, and David spent the night and left early this morning, and thus I'm up at 9:30 am updating my blog.

As for my homestay sorrows, it turns out I'm moving. Whether or not I'm switching families seems to be the question. The family has apparently already rented out their current house next month, because I think they assumed they would have found a new place already. However, if they cannot find a new place then I will have to move in with a different family. It's not a huge deal, but more of an inconvenience and I may have to go through the whole readjusting period again.

As I am writing this, however, my host mom just informed me that she is taking me to the oldest Swiss castle in the country in a town called Montreux. So I will pause here and update the rest of this later today.

I'm back! haha its about 3pm now, and we just got home from Montreux. It was amazing! We went to the Chateau du Chillon, the castle in Montreux. It was so cool, seeing stuff that was built in the 13th century and earlier. Obviously I took tons of pictures. The castle itself was under many different rulers, but we walked through prisons, houses, dinner halls, and just about everything else. Everything was so old and it even had that super authentic old rustic smell hahah. The castle sits right on the edge of Lake Geneva and looks out onto the alps. Needless to say the pictures are quite amazing.

I guess its time to go do a bit of homework now.

Miss everybody back stateside.