February 23, 2008

So much to update about. I guess well go in chronological order.

The rest of the week was fairly uneventful, with the exception of finding out that my family was not the worst by far haha. My friend Kat was napping and was awoken to her host mom talking on the phone to a friend about how much she didn't like Kat. Needless to say she was really upset and she too is joining the moving families club.

Yesterday was about 60 degrees out and sunny and was beautiful. We had half a day of classes and grabbed some lunch, changed some money for the Brussels/Paris trip on Sunday, then I headed home to pack up the room. Around 6pm my mom drove me around the corner to my new house. I quickly got set up and settled in (pain in the ass that it was).

The dad, who is an astrophysicist for the University of Geneva (and may actually be a mad scientist) gave me a tour around the house, which includes a nuclear fallout shelter (apparently it was Swiss law at some point to require houses to have one. There are also more books in this house than I have ever seen in my entire life. We had a really good dinner and the family seems really tight knit. The mom is really cute and tries hard to speak English which is really nice. The younger son Antoine doesn't speak much English and is really shy.

After dinner we played a quick game of rummy cube with the parents and Antoine, and then went upstairs to play some Wii with Nick and Antoine. After, around 10pm, me, Nick, Chiara (the sister), and a few of their friends went to go play laser tag in Geneva. That was an interesting experience but a lot of fun. We got home around 1:30 and I pretty much passed out.

Today is even warmer than yesterday, and I think David, Rikki, Jake, and I are going to go explore/hike around the mountain a bit.

Super excited for the Brussels/Paris trip and we leave really early tomorrow and get in to Brussels in the afternoon.

Oh, and Vasco (the beautiful black lab) is amazing, finally I have a dog!

Miss everybody back stateside.