Hello there! I am in agony but I'll come to that later! My weekend was great! It truely opened my eyes.Friday: I got up super early to go all the way to Bern to see the Alps. So off I went, totally prepared to be overwhelmed by multitude and massivitude of the the Alps. As the train crept closer and closer to Bern the rain started to fall and the mist and fog came with the rain. I was standing a misty Bern ready to kill as you may have guessed the Alps were rather shy with the mist! I went to the tourist office and asked if there was any point to Bern without the Alps and I was sent to see the former orphanage. Well, that sums things up! Bern is actually quite interesting and beautiful. I wandered around and took photos of anything that looked mildy interesting including a staircase in the middle of the street. Bern was unbelievably icy. I slipped on ice and caught myself, then unbalanced, flaying my arms around and around,settled myself rather pleased with myself and then fell right onto my bum! A tourist took a photo and laughed and left me sitting in the ice. I went to an art gallery and saw a feminist exhibition called "We all have AIDs. And we're feminists too!". There were...interesting pictures with scissors and how to use them to free ourselves from men. Oddly enough though, these feminists were actually quite fond of male domination. I think giving them an entire exhibition confused them a little. After 4 and a half hours of sight seeing all I wanted to do was to sit down for hours on end so I went to the cinema. I asked for a ticket for "the next film in English no matter what is it" The girl laughed but then realised I was serious. I got to see "Slumdog Millionaire" which is truely fantastic and deserves every prize it's nominated for! I headed back to the train station and went home truely exhausted! Pity about the Alps. Third times a charm.
Saturday: So after pulling myself out of bed I went off to Feldberg with Carlo, Christie, Brita, Ola and Karina. Brita and Ola decided to teach us all how to snowboard. It turned out Carlo was lying that he had never been snowboarding so they had Chrisite and I to teach. And WHAT a task! Snowboarding is awesome fun but scary as hell. I don't think I'll ever go professional, out of modesty for my talent that is! The thing is with snowboarding is that you get cocky and think you really good when in actual fact you're a complete danger to everything and yourself. I fell and flipped over on my board, and heard my knee crack. No bones broken, Thank goodness but I couldn't move my toes or leg until Christie got me off my board. Then everything worked then so I think it was just the shock. So I've a cool piractical limp now. It looks good and I'm throwing a fancy dress party in two weeks so what perfect timing. While we were on the slope. Christie started shouting and pointing and guess what we saw...THE ALPS!!! They were so clear and beautiful. I was so happy and yet so so SO angry at the same time! We ate something called "Apfelkrapfen" in the skiing restaurant. It was like a danish except deep fried with apple and heart stoppingly covered in custard!
Saturday Evening: We decided that we'd go to a houseparty with Ola and Brita. This was something out of a drugs raid in all the Hollywood movies. The very top of a very old house was this apartment with winding corridors and low ceilings. It was impossible to see much inside as they covered the lights. So I went out and started looking at the stars as the visibility was amazing. I saw Orion (of course), The Big Dipper and the Small dipper! Which was pretty cool. I got talking to a Croatian and an Indian boy. The Indian wasn't interested in the stars so I was left with this Croatian whose name was Thomasslak. He thought I was awesome and that everything I did in life was "hot". I tried escaping three times, got Ola to talk to him, Carlo pretended to be my boyfriend but none of it worked. I gave him a fake number but he rang it while I was standing there, made me take out my phone and ring him. So now a Croatian somewhere in Freiburg has my number and is calling me today so that we can fence, snowboard, play badminton and look at stars together. I dunno how I do this to myself. When I was leaving the party he came out to see me out. Carlo got rid of him and said "You're alright looking in the dark, the light does funny things to you" Thomasslak smiled and said "Thank you very much" Oh dear. Within 5 minutes of leaving the party he had already rung me. Oh good! A new friend!
Sunday (today): I am in COMPLETE agony. I have muscles hurting that I didn't know I had. Pain is my only friend now. But I can't complain. I had a great weekend and got to see the Alps finally and I didn't have to go to Switzerland...again.
Out,
H
