one more moment...

ok ok.. so i just wrote the biggest post and then it dissapeared, least to say i am highly un impressed.

here we go again....

yesterday i spent my first day in switzerland with Alex and his friends... like i said in the last post i was going to meet alex in town and then maybe do some sighseeing...

well i did meet alex bout 330pm and we went to this shopping mall kind of like myer or david jones with all sorts of brands and every level has something diff...

we went to the top of this and had cakes and coffeee which was really great and the view was just amazing.

we were chatting away and didnt realise the time so we had no time for any sighseeing and we just went back down and his friends picked us up and we drove to La crox to another friends house for a bbq... the house was fab.. it was an old farm house ocnverted into a 3 story loft i guess you could say... it was cool!!

by about 8pm there was baout 10 of us, and two of alexs friends are djs so they brought their equipement along and played some tuneeeez for us, and heapsa of the music was in english and things like david guettera and bodyrox and sneaky sound system, so i knew heaps!!

so here i was with 10 complete strangers, sitting around, laughing, drinking Mateus (rose wine, sparkling, my new fave) good food, sunshine beaming down, with the view of lake geneva right infront of us... just having a splendid time!!

about 3 -4 of them could speak english, not fluently but ver very well i thought... so i learnt a bit more french and i taught them a bit more english .. and they said they cant wait till i can speak fluent french with them ha ah i said they may be waiting a while... if they were all having a conversation in french alex would explain basically what they were saying but i can also now pick out bits n pieces and words and get the egenral gist of the convo...

Gin and some ofthe others wanted to take me out in Lausanne to dance, but i didnt want to come back late for my first night, so Karine and i swapped numbers and she said she will organise them all for a ntoher night in a few weekends and they will ake me out.. Karine was lovely and she really did speak very good english... she said she would take me shopping and to diff places as well which will be great!!

Alex had to get the train back to his village so GIn drove me home and he speaks about as much english as i do french, but its funny how you can still find that commond ground whcihw as music with us, and then with explainign other things we both just tried and tried and eventually we understand.. hahah but it was a real laugh and its good coz we can just laugh at eachother...

but all i can say is lucky he had GPS in his carha ha, coz explaining hwo to get back would have been a truggle because i was hardly sure and then with the whole french english barrier, i could have ended up anywhere.. but alas i got home safe and sound and about 1130pm which is actually earlier than some nights i have been up with the girls...

today was spent with me having a little sleep in and then i went on a solo trip on foot round a few streets to try and get some bearings... i unfortunately (fortunately) found the local bakery..hahaha bought myself a little pastry... which are to die for, they really have got the tastefactor covered ... yum yum..

then just before i took the girls to the park, it is my day off but i didnt mind and it got them out for a while.. even thought they have a decent back yard, i knew they wanted to go...

the weather is just amazing, but apparently its going to get worse over the next few days, which is unfortnate as we have a family from australia arriving tomorrow for a week, parents and 2 kids... so i will have 5 to look out for ha ha... coy roxane is going to horse camp for the week...

$so laurence and i will have to think of some things to do inside if it rains etc... fun fun fun...

i start french school in 2 weeks, i have to do a test to see how good (bad) i am and then they put me in an appropriate class..hahah chuck me at the bottom i say..

anywho..hhahah thats my dear diary for the day... hope everyone is doing great xoxoxox