I actually do a lot of things every week

And I have done so much stuff, I was too lazy to update... until now ;D

soo, you recall how exhausted I was from my first exam completely written in French? Good. It was worth it. I got a C+ which I consider like an A if it was in English, cos I didn't understand every question, it was a LOT of guesswork. I'm really happy about that :)

And then I was snowboarding for the first time this winter, and it was so worth it... over 3000m on a glacier, envy me ;)

After 4hrs I was dead and we went back home and I fell asleep until I got woken up... my revenge was sweet, cos NOBODY wakes me up without a reason... ;)

There's so many presentations, assignments and group works to do, you wouldn't imagine ERASMUS as a place to actually do something, but as those are in the English classes, I simply cannot pretend I don't understand.... But that's good, some presentations I have to do every week, and as you may know, practice makes perfect :)

But I can assure you, I really don't get bored, I have a lot of entertainment in my student's home and from all the other Erasmus-People :)

I actually quit going out during the week, cos it is tiring to talk so much with so many people (not the talking part, the many people part^^)... and who likes who :D

So, I'm good, my life is in motion, my dreams are starting to come true and I feel loved by God and my friends in everything I do :)

PS: I don't count sheeps to fall asleep, I count heartbeats.

first exam: done

my first exam is finally done but it was a very difficult birth... really!!

First of all, I knew it was open book, so I kind of blew off studying until the last two days before... well, as usual ^^

And 6hrs before the exam, I looked like this:
well, I was pissed off at studying, after 7hrs straight with a maximum break of 30mins you can't blame me, and I really hated www.leo.org & my dictionnary, cos both were VERY VERY often insufficient to provide me with the necessary information... ^^

then I gave up studying and went to sleep, woke up early enough, I checked the tram times again so I would be there early enough not to stand at closed doors... First shock, M. called, "oh yeah, our tram is leaving in wait... 5minutes. can you make it?" - "Of course I can" was my reply, already fiddeling nervousely to lock my dorm door... and I ran 700m straight to the tram stop. In 3 minutes. with a backpack. nothing in my stomach. and no chocolate in sight. I think I should be rewarded for that ;D

needlesss to say I got the tram, we were there early enough and EVERYBODY was nervous and flipping through their docs over and over... 08.00 AM: exam time... way too early, never will I do that again...
because, this exam was THE horror... 22 pages, 6 of them were for the case study, which asked us to analyze a company in 3 different ways and to describe a good strategy for the creation of a subsidary. that prof is a little crazy I guess... cos after that we also had 10 theory question with answers to write & 5 multiple choice questions. and guess what, NOBODY finished the exam in time... although there were some high achievers who were still writing after he called the time^^

I have to say one thing I am proud of though: I wrote 98% of the exam in French although I was allowed to write in English... I hope my goodwill(^^) gives me more points ;))

everybody looked so beat & wrought out... and the most-heard sentence of today definitely was "c'est NUL!!!!" (=that was complete bulls***t!!) & "trop dur, il est fou"(=way too difficult, he is crazy)... well, an agreement there, iLike that ;D
and there obviousely was the exam for the fulltime and part-time students at the same time, never saw this many guys in a suit at 8AM at a university ;))

well, as for how I looked after the exam... watch for yourself^^

hope you enjoy my difficulties :P

Swiss People and their Quirks ;)

I think I'm now long enough in Switzerland to be able to say what is "typically" swiss...

The most IMPORTANT... Never, I repeat, NEVER confuse or compare the italian, german or french-speaking part of Switzerland, they kind of don't like that ;)

The famous swiss punctuality, perfection & being on time is more likely to be found in the german-speaking part, here in the "suisse romande" they are not thaaat accurate except when it's business :)

What also was kind of interesting to observe... the differences in the redlight - districts... ^_^ I have friends/relatives in Zurich, and sometimes I go there and go out... In Zurich, the prostitutes run around with 20cm-height see-through high heels but in Geneva, nothing like that is to be seen... Not even on Saturday night! But that's better for me anyways as I live there ;)

I was in the Wallis (le Valais) two weeks ago, and it was simply awesome...

Zermatt is a beautiful, maybe a little too expensive mountain village, but the view of the Matterhorn, just WOW, just like at the TOBLERONE-chocolates ;)

I was really amazed because of the landscape and mountains, I didn't know I missed it so much until I got there... Now I am mountain-sick ;)

Another "typical" quirk especially here in the french-speaking part is, do NOT confuse anyone with a frenchman... that's the same if you say to a British person he is American and VICE VERSA ;)

At the moment I am procrastinating cos I have an exam tomorrow... but I guess I'll start studying now... Last Friday was Eva's 21st Birthday and the party was really cool, with a lot of ERASMUS-students around, but the really hard core that went dancing to a club until 2AM was Austro-Swiss :D