Three Crazy Things

Grüsse Jedermann!
So three crazy things is the title, and that is exactly what happened to me this week.
Crazy thing #1: I climbed a freaking mountain!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D For real! At 5 in the morning! For two hours, I hiked with 45 other exchange students up the Rigi, just to see the sunrise. If that's not crazy I don't know what is. But it was soooo worth it. That was the most amazing sunrise I have ever seen, well worth the exhausting hike (and we hiked for pretty much the rest of that day too), and being dead tired when I got back home. Gorgeous. And I got really close to all of the other exchange students. I think I've said this before, but I feel like I have a million instant best friends because we all know what each other are going through. We share stories about stuff that's happened to us so far, and most of them are hilarious. We talk about being a bit homesick, having language troubles, but at the same time all of us are in love with Switzerland. :] The exchange students are from all over the world, and staying all over Switzerland (8 were from the French part, so we couldn't speak German to them, we pretty much had an English speaking weekend, it was a nice break, I didn't have to think so hard haha) That was pretty much the most fun I've had  so far, but I know something will be even better in the future :]
Crazy thing #2: I started Swiss school. I have to be insane. I'm in a foreign country, that I don't speak the language of, and I'm repeating a year of high school, with teenagers, who are at their most judgmental point in life (because let's be honest, teenagers are). But that's exactly why I came on exchange, to be open-minded, and maybe change other peoples minds about Americans, especially us crazy youth. ;] All of the kids in my class (a whopping 14, compared to the sometimes 30+ in Prior Lake), are super nice to me. They are all very interested me, and always explain anything I don't understand (which happens a lot when you don't speak the language). I think a lot of them like practicing their English on me. haha Another crazy thing that happened is I have to learn Piano!!! I have never played the piano in my life, and I have very little hand coordination, or any coordination for that matter (hence the watersports). Now they have the monumental task of trying to teach me how to play. I may come back to the states with a new skill!
Crazy thing #3: I'm on holidays already. Yup, one week of school and now I have an entire month off. This is because my class (the 14 of them, minus one or two) went to London this morning for 1 or 2 weeks (can't remember which). And there was no way they could get me a ticket and reservations after I had only been in the school a week, so I have holidays already... I want to go to London, but I don;t need to learn English haha. And my host family is taking me to France for a week and then Spain for a week, one right after the other!! That definitely makes up for it! :D So I'll try to write in this before I leave, but don't expect me to write while I'm in France or Spain. I don't think I'll be bringing my laptop...
So those were my three crazy things! How many people read this blog anyway??? Someone want to give me a rough estimate? haha Comment below and I will try to answer! Just  make sure you comment on the most recent blog and not an older one because I don't see those!
Tschüss!!
-Anne-Marie