Number 18:

Kalimera! That‘s Greek for good morning... except people say it all day so more like HELLO!  I just got back from a marvelous week in Greece with my host family! Before I tell you all about it, I have to tell you about the few days in between my last blog post and when I left!

On Friday I went to Brig for the very first time! Well… actually it was the second time, but the first I was only in the Banhof (that’s German for train station) so it doesn’t really count. I visited my friend and saw a castle but most importantly I bought about a year’s supply of chocolate (it was on sale at Denner)!!!!!!!! Yay Schweiz! I came home with my purse literally overflowing, and now I have a drawer in my room solely devoted to chocolate. Don’t worry though mom and dad, I won’t eat it all in one sitting… hopefully.

The next day I went to Bern for some fun in the sun at Marzili for probably the last time until next summer :'(  The river was sooooo cold that we were numb almost instantaneously… but we were troopers and toughed it out… twice.

 Three other AWESOME things about the day were: 

   #1-  an exchange student from California found peanut butter (it’s not that common here, and no one eats it) so we had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on Sunday bread (aka the best bread in theworld)

      #2- an exchange student from Canada (the Yukon to be exact! And want to know something funny? I know exactly ONE other person from the Yukon… and they know each other!!!!!) Anyways, he just happened to have Bob and Doug Mckenzie movie on his ipod so we watched some of it and I swelled with pride at being a Canadian (that’s only half sarcasm)

And #3- ANA MADE A VIDEO BLOG ABOUT IT so I can re live every second of it (well the seconds she got on camera at least) over and over and over and over until Youtube shuts down.

Then on Sunday morning I made banana pancakes with my host sister (my personal fave) and brought out TWO bottles of maple syrup which we finished. They were delicioso if I may say so myself! (ps that’s Spanish, not German or Greek ;) 

After that I went into Thun with the famjam (in case you didn’t get the memo I live in Wimmis now which is NOT Thun… it’s a half hour by bus or 20 minutes by train if you can get a good connection) to watch my host sister play with her band in a big parade and then later on stage. She plays the saxophone, and the jumbo huge bass sax which is pretty cool, as well as about 20 thousand other instruments… she’s pretty talented. Anyways, the parade was for a festival which I’ll have to explain to you when I get home (or give me a call if you’re not from home) because it’s more words than I can type out in the limited time that I have in internet land… but the most important part of it is that there’s a lot of music and beer and young children dress up like dogs and hit you with sticks with balloons on the end! I wish I was around to stay for more, but poor old me had to go to Greece ;)

 Ahhh I will never get tired of this town <3

I think I’ll wait until tomorrow to tell you about Greece because I have to get pictures from my host dad and sister first because I have minimal pictures of myself…. And those are of the utmost importance.