Guten Tag Fruends!
My first week in Switzerland is moving right along! I've been busy!! haa! it's true!
Tuesday went well. It was another sunny day! I took a walk around to drop off the recycling - at a little park - and also try to recycle the empty beer bottles. only i went to the wrong store. when i held up the empties, the lady said something? I translate it to "nope, soddie!". Then i held up the phone charger card (to put more minutes on the cell phone) and I'm not sure what she said but it was probably something along the lines of "you're loco". so off i went to continue my day. i picked up some schwein pieces (more pork) for dinner. and some other veggies and some chocolate. :D can't miss out on that Swiss way of life! Oh! and some popcorn!! how could i forget that? I came home & did some laundry and ironing and stuff. haaa! actually it wasn't too bad - most of this stuff is that hard when you have actual time to do it. I make it fun by putting on the radio or listening to rhapsody online so I can play all my faves. Tuesday night, Rob and i went for a run along the rheine. it is so beautiful there! there were tons of people out enjoying the nice weather. it was dusk when we ran. my favorite time of day and it was gorgeous. I am going to take photos of the river this week to share.
Wednesday was another nice day. I am afraid I am jinxing myself but the weather has been great! I finally finished going through all the emails from the past month! reading them at least - and i did some stuff around the house. I am hoping to hear from the radio station this week. the contact emailed me back and said he thought they'd be able to use my writing skills! No word from him in the morning though so I took my ipod and went out for a walk along the river. another picture perfect day. I was so happy walking along and listening to my tunes. ipods are the best! After the walk, I was craving a Coke. Those of you that know me well, know how much I love coke. I didn't want to be the American tourist who had to have her coke, but I was! I got a bottle in the correct store for the beer bottles! the plastic coke bottle also required a deposit - .50 just like the beer bottles! I took the cokie home and it was sooooo goood!! the secret formula is the same!
So then I did some ironing & listening to rhapsody. Then it was time to get my act together to go meet rob and some of his friends from work for a drink. i took the little tram down to meet rob and then his friends jens and markus met us. both very nice guys. They are both German but they spoke very good English. we went to some new Irish bar (haa - isn't that funny? Americans, Germans in the Irish bar in Switzerland!). anyway - we had some of Guinness and "crisps" (potato chips). Then we went for Italian (no I did not have my fill of it in Italia!). robs had some crazy roll thing with procuit and cheese. I did not love it. but I did love the pizza that i got with "Artischock", priscuit, and schwarz oliven. and also the bread with olive oil. the bread in Switzerland is MUCH better than the Italian bread. shocking but true!!!
So far today has been pretty low key but I did get to talk to both Russell and Joy so that made my day. I called joy at 6:30 her time - teds - i am proud of you for being so alert at that time of day!! and Russell on IM, just about immediately after i got off the phone with joy so that was wonderful!
okay - off to get some stuff done & work on uploading those honeymoon photos!!
ciao for now!
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