Jane’s Swiss Exchange

So on the 19th of December my class went to this place called the Swiss Science Center Technorama that was in Winterthur. We met at the Burgdorf Bahnhof at around 8 and then took a two hour train ride to get there. I sat with my friends Viola and Fabienne on the train and another girl. We went with another class as well. When we got there I was hanging out with Jasmin and Yael who are in my class and it was so cool there! At first, there was this presentation with electricity and it was kinda boring at the beginning but later in the show they brought out a person in this metal suit and they got some kids from the audience to go behind this cage and they got to stick their arms out in the same material. They brought down this metal ball that had electric bolts coming out of it and the guy in the suit got a metal stick raised it to the ball and with his other arm he pointed at the the kids' arms one at a time and lightning came out of him! It was pretty cool! After that we went...

I've been here in Switzerland for 133 days and I have another 206 days to go. It seems like a lot, but January is actually the half-way mark for my exchange and this exchange has gone by so quickly. Saturday the 14 December Edna and I went to a place called Colmar in France -- which is here: and it was really fun! I got up at 6 because Edna thought it would be a good idea to chose the train that left at 6:43 AM (!!). We got to the train on time and took for about two hours until we got to Basel. There we had 20 minutes to catch our train but before we could we needed to buy our tickets cause it was with another train company. We got some breakfast first and then we went to the information centre, waited on line for five minutes that we didn’t have and then got directed to the SBB office in the train station. When we got to the SBB (the Switzerland Train Company) we had two minutes to get to our gate which was not gonna happen because it’s always very slow in the office. We took...