Alpha Swiss Q Hotel Thun

... Watched the game on big screen in street
-incomprehensible chants (tune of Seven Nation Army)
-Bosh launching a full pint can into French fans after Holland scored 30 seconds after France to make it 3-1
Bern population: 125,000
Bern population today: 275,000
conversion of entire street into a urinal trough
Smitty's conversation with some woman on the train ride back (he ...

... but a lot of people sneakily were. There was a woman dressed in everyday clothes though, regulating the photo taking and saying "Ma'am, no pictures!" It was kind of funny. Of course, I planned out how to take one of him. When the lady wasn't looking, I took a few with my flash off so she couldn't tell, but they turned out blurry. So I took one with flash, and high tailed it out of there. You can admire the photo in my photo album. We were so blessed with the weather on ...

My life really is like a circus, I just have to laugh at it! And occasionally i look like something that belongs in a circus! You know there is an example coming up so let me tell you about my last Friday. A couple of nutty Germans who are travelling around on a big mean shiny purple machine came to stay a few days with my new host family. And they very kindly offered to take me for a ride through the lovely mountains in the Emantal region. How nice is that! And my new amazing ...

... Eskimo that is. Mom - looks like your plan might have worked!) Thun is a great little town. It's very quintessentially Swiss - friendly people, these mid-aged children jumping off the bridges into the cold, fast river, and lots of cool little things. I think I forget how Americanized I am and how I expect Europe to be Siberia or something. I mean, i could get Dr. Scholl's shoe gel pads or the exact brand of shampoo I want, albeit in a cuter, smaller bottle here. We also went ...

... beautiful. We ran into a whole bunch of people playing volleyball, so we decided to stop and play with them. Then we continued on our way to our very clean hostel, shot the ****, and went to bed with 10 alarms set as we were a little paranoid about missing the train that left at 6:26 am due to our earlier train exploits...Phew, it was quite the fun little weekend! But I suppose its back to homework...

Hello Hello i stayed with haylie in thun for 5 nights and it was so good! we stayed in one of haylies host families houses... it was lovely to meet kaspar and ursula and karin... (and benny) thun is such a beautiful place... no wonder haylie loves it! its right next to lake thun (thunesse) and the lake is surronded by gigantic snow covered mountains.. (stockhorn, nizen, eiger, monk and ...

... the communities on the northern side of the new pass, Rudolf of Habsburg bought Luzern outright from Murbach in 1291, intending to subdue it and channel its profits into the imperial coffers. At the same time, though, the peasant farmers of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden on the eastern shores of the lake had formed a pact of mutual defence at Rütli against the Austrian threat, and after some instability, Luzern joined them in 1332, the first major city to do so. This pact ...

... entwickelten und wenig zivilisi**ten Teilen d** Welt statt. Dabei v**gessen wir leid** meist, dass solche V**brechen meist von oben dikti**t sind, h**vorg**ufen durch eigennützige Politik** und machthungrige H**rsch**. Dass die Menschen in jenen Gesellschaften einen meist viel menschlich**en Umgang unt**einand** pflegen als bei uns üblich, wissen nur die Wenigsten. Oft sind solche Umgangsformen so tief in ihr** Kultur v**wurzelt, dass sie richtiggehend zu Gesetzen ...

... löffle einen grossen Becher Gelati in mich hinein. Der Föhn lässt die Wellen gegen die Ufermauer branden und hoch aufspritzen. In der Ferne leuchten die frisch verschneiten Walliser Alpen in einer unwirklichen Klarheit, fast so als würden sie über dem See schweben. Nach einer letzten Nacht im Schlafsack an einem winzigen Kiesstrand am See bin ich schon vor Tagesanbruch wieder auf und fahre ausnahmsweise noch in der Dunkelheit los. Ich habe schon die Schweizer Grenze ...

... I walked around in some shops until the rain stopped then toured the city some more. It is re-introduction to culture shock when you realize you AGAIN have no idea how to ask for things and speak with people -- at least in Spain when I arrived I knew the word for "bathroom" and for "water". How did I solve that problem: I just skipped both for today :0) Bon Jour, Pardone moi, Et Cetra. (or something like that) HASTA LUEGO. Chris PS, Early last week I received packages ...