6:04 AM
Busy!I have been busy! So many things, so little time. Every weekend there will be a new and interesting experience for us. Here's the list:
Week 1 - We went Munich
Week 2 - (ok, nothing, just stayed in hostel and rotted. but hey, that's a new experience too!)
Week 3 - Met up with Mohit and had a tour of the entire Bern city
Week 4 - Snowboarding in Lenzerheide (Friday), Raclette evening in my buddy Anja's town (Saturday), Singaporean dinner (Sunday)
Week 5 - Skiing at Murren
Week 6 (this week) - Easter egg-painting at Anja's house!
Happening right, every single weekend is filled! I seriously don't have time for school. There's no time to do all my work and readings, heng I already read all the texts for my lit classes. But I really don't have enough time to complete my work, well mainly because I have been slacking during the weekdays after class ends, haha. I just come back, cook dinner, and slack in front of the computer until its time for bed. What a great life. If only there are no deadlines as well.
I have 2 presentations lined up for the coming week! The very thought makes me sian. But what to do, one of them is an individual presentation, which means I have to really work for it. Bah. So irritating. Its getting in the way of my schedule! I want to try baking stuff this week loh, hope I get to squeeze some time in for it tomorrow. Which probably means I should not be doing things like blogging and uploading pictures. But what the heck, as yun says, I am on exchange, I should enjoy myself! Hope to chiong finish my work by tonight so tomorrow will be dedicated to less boring stuff.
But on to more exciting stuff - my buddy Anja messaged me this morning to invite me to her house to paint easter eggs, something I have not done ever since I left my kindergarden. So we went and it was a whole new experience! Definitely nothing like the painting of eggs we do in school.
A step-by-step instructuion manual:
Step 1 - Pick small plants with nice patterns and shapes.
To get these we went up a hill behind her house, which is practically her backyard(!). The walk itself took quite awhile - not that I minded though, it was great weather and we didn't even need our coats.
Here's a look at the hill:
She lives just below this hill, and can go for a stroll whenever she wants a breather from studying - how lucky is that? We crowded Singaporeans will never get to see this sight just next to our homes. I'm so envious.
But yeah, back to the egg-painting.
Step 2 - Stick the small plants onto the egg with some water. Let your creative juices flow and arrange them artistically on the egg!
Yeah, like that.
Step 3 - Secure your egg with some pantyhose/stockings, and tie them with string.
You can get a friend to help you secure the egg.
Step 4 - Put everything into a pot filled with water and onion peel, and boil!
Voila! You have nicely painted Easter eggs.
(I don't have any pictures of the nice easter eggs though, forgot to take them. Ours turned out quite bad, but we really had fun!)
Then we had dinner at her place, where a Canadian exchange student they were hosting cooked really good soup for us, and we had that with bread and cheese and assorted vegetables. Very delicious meal, and we really had fun. They also took us on a tour of their house with has been standing since the 1700s. Which effectively gives it an age of over 300 years old. Everything is historic in their town I tell you. They are like living in historical sites everyday. Such a new thing for us, we of a 40-year-old country.
I feel really lucky to have gotten Anja as my buddy man, she has really given me a taste of real Swiss living, something you don't get when you live in a hostel with such an international mix. Now I'm just trying to perfect my cooking skills so I can invite her over someday for dinner and really thank her for all the nice things she has done for me. :D
Oh yes, moving on, I'll be going to Austria for the whole of the Easter break, actually from next Thursday onwards. Will be meeting friends at Graz, and I'm so looking forward to seeing familiar faces in a foreign land! Will try to upload more photos before I go, when stupid webshots decide to work properly for me.
Very long post! To compensate for the lack of prompt updating, hehe.
P/S: This is totally unrelated, but 宥嘉's song is now playing on my media player, and I really love listening to him sing. So envious of Jerena, who will get to hear him sing live soon! Sigh. More pictures and maybe the concert dvd please! Thanks jer!
Kay Key