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“Two Tickets to Paradise“

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 bring my passport. Literally that’s all that happened so far.
So I’m back. It’s now 9:15 and I’m tired. We met in Bern and got on a train to Wallis (W are pronounced as V in German). There is a museum there sponsored by UNESCO about glaciers and more specifically glaciers in Switzerland. It was really interactive and cool. There was this sand box that people can play in and projected on it is a coloured map that shows how high the sand is. They also had virtual reality there that was how the glaciers looked years ago and how they’ll look in 2050. It was pretty cool. One thing I learned there was from a quote on the wall by J.R.R Tolkien who wrote Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. He based his description of the Misty Mountains from his time hiking from Interlaken to somewhere else in Switzerland. That was pretty cool to find out. We then got on a train to Italy and we went to Domodossola for a short while. We were there for 20 minutes (I know right!! So lucky!! 20 whole minutes!!). It is literally just in the boarder of Switzerland so you can still see mountains and everything. It was fun we took some photos:








And then we got in a train for two hours which took us to Locarno (Switzerland). The train took a scenic route and it was so pretty. I slept a bit on the train not gonna lie. It was so pretty though with all the trees on the mountains changing colours. The trees were covering the mountain so it looked like a big, fuzzy, colourful blanket. We then took another train to Bellizona and we had some time to walk around and then we went to an old castle there which was absolute beautiful. It actually started to thunderstorm in a nearby mountain and we were so close to it but it didn’t seem to bother anybody. It was actually really cool.














We then took a two hour train to this town I can’t remember and I read a bit of my book that I’ve been meaning to finish for about three months now. Then we took another train to Olten then I came home. I had a really good day today. And today is the day I’ve officially been in Switzerland for three months. Three months is important in an exchange because everyone says for the first three months it’s gonna be thought and then after that it gets easier and easier. So! Yay!! 




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