Jane’s Swiss Exchange

So Thursday was the last day of the travelling week. Wednesday we went to St. Gallen which is in the north-east part of Switzerland. We went to the library which is famous and actually the first time I saw it was in a movie call, "The Catcher Was a Spy." It is a great movie with Paul Rudd about a Yankee baseball catcher who was asked to be a spy for the Americans as they thought Heisenburg was going to create a nuclear bomb for the Germans in World War 2 (maybe one I can't remember). Before we got into the library we had to put on this wool slippers that were all the same size and then the doors opened to this:  We weren't allowed to take photos so this is from a internet. But it was breath taking. The paintings on the ceiling were so real and they were something to do with the bible. I couldn’t understand what the tour guide was saying but that just meant that I could look at the library. We also weren’t allowed to go upstairs and the globe is actually bigg...

Right now (7:31 AM) I’m on a train to Bern to meet the group to go to the Italian part of Switzerland. One thing about Switzerland is that leggings are considered pjs. So yesterday we had a tour in Bern and I haven’t washed my jeans yet so I wore leggings (I was hopping if they were black no one would notice that much) but they did. I didn’t mind. There were some girls wearing leggings that were also walking around Bern and without hearing them speak anything you could immediately tell they were from North America. So the train right now if absolutely crowded. I’m standing with about 15 other people right now. Yesterday was good. I didn’t understand a lot of the tour, but to be honest I stopped listening after a while and just looked at the buildings around. It was fun. I hung out with some friends from school and two other girls joined us. I had to get up at 6 and I got ready in 5 minutes so I had an hour of just hanging out. Apparently we’re going into Italy actually so I had to bri...