One week in Switzerland! I´ve had a great time staying with Corinne and her boyfriend Sebastian. They´re both cooks and they´ve made really delicious food for me every day; I´m now officially crazy-ass spoiled! I´ve gone to the little mountain near Zurich, and today I went with Corinne and Sebastian to the Alps a few hours away. The Swiss alps! Switzerland is so incredibly beautiful and ADORABLE!!! I really love it here. There are many things that I´ve come to love about this country during my stgay here, and I will briefly list them now.
1) No war, that´s just good times! However, I already knew that about Switzerland, so I will now only list things that I have newly discovered about the country I now love
2) Or real 1) They sell Glüwein at stands on almost every street and it´s so delicious!
New 2) All the houses are short and have big, pointy roofs- even the apartments and hotels are house-shaped with big, pointy roofs
3) They have big, coloured steeples with pointy roofs and clocks on all the churches
4) They sell liquor and porn almost everwhere
5) The country officially has 3 languages- how cool is that? German, French, and Italian
6) The chocolate and cheese is awesome beyond all reason!
7) There are tons of Chirstmas markets everwhere
There are probably more things, but that´s enough for now.
Corinne and her best friend Danica took me to the capital city Bern a few days ago. It is so incredibly cute!!! All the shops are teeny tiny and prefaced by beautiful arches. Most of the streets have really cute below-ground shops that open with cellar doors, and you have to walk down through the entranceway to get into the shops. There´s a really cute clock-work tower in the middle of the town with lots of amazing little fountains everywhere (one has a bear dressed in a knight costume- precious!), and every single street is made of cobblestone and is very narrow! We drove to the city in the evening and we found a market that sold glüwein, but it was crazy busy, so we walked around for a bit and found another outdoor market (of Switzerland is awesome) that was in a square in front of one of the parliment buildings and the church. We bought some glüwein and drank it in front of the parliment building, and then in front of the church. It was great! Afterwards we met up with two of Danica´s friends at a local Sheesha bar. I smoked my first ever hit of sheesha, followed by my first feeling like death from sheesha (god I hate tobacco), and so I´m never doing that again, even if it is cool and exotic and from a giant hookah. Anyway, after that we went to a drum and bass party in a town next to Bern. The DJ was insane, but the party was kind of lame because hardly anyone (excluding us of course) was dancing. How can you not dance to electronic music? After we left and dropped off the girls Corinne and I got back after 5am. I think I did the nation´s capital proud!
Another crazy, cool thing that´s happened in the last week is the other night I went with Corinne to her staff Christmas party. We weren´t told where we were going or what we were doing, we were just told the town that we were taking the train to. On the train her coworkers busted out the plastic cups and wine and we spent the long train ride drinking and talking. Drinking legally in public is awesome! Her coworkers are incredibly nice, but most of the night people were talking German, so it was a little hard to be fully in the festivites. Everyone was very accomodating, though. We arrived in the town and were brought to the house of the friend of Corinne´s boss where we all had a fondue party with tons of wine in a cool off-house room with a fireplace and big, glass doors. Very Swiss-rustic! We spent hours in the room eating the world´s most delicious fondue and drinking, and eventually poured ourselves back into the train and stumbled back to Corinne´s house.
I also had fondue a few nights before-hand at Corinne´s friend´s house. I am so friggin loving this Swiss fondue! It´s so creamy and delicious and traditional! Happy Kendall! It´s been great to try a bunch of traditional Swiss food while I´m here, especially since most of the food has been cooked for me by my Swiss hosts. Man, I love being spoiled! Anyway, that´s a pretty good overview of what my last week has entailed. Tomorrow morning in Amsterdam!