Good news!: I just bought my plane ticket for Alicante, Spain. The last weekend in November, I will be soaking up some sun (hopefully!). Heidi and I have not really done any traveling since Oktoberfest in Munich which was the beginning of October. I'm pretty excited for Alicante because it will be nice to understand at least a little bit better what people are saying around me. Although I don't have great Spanish skills, it will be nice to hear/speak a more familiar language.
I will be traveling to Alicante with Heidi, of course :), and Amanda who is a friend of Heidi's from her home in Kennewick, WA. Amanda just got here a week ago and is also staying here for a year as an au pair. So far she loves her host family and being an au pair. Her host parents do seem like great people. They are Argentinian and have lived there, in Memphis, and Frankfurt (and now Switzerland of course). So the whole family speaks Spanish, German, and English. I think it's cool that Amanda lives with such a cultured family. And it should be fun having another American au pair to hang out with.
This weekend was not very exciting. Friday night, I met Heidi and Amanda in Zurich for a few drinks. We showed Amanda how to take the train home and saw her off. Heidi wasn't feeling great so I was home pretty early. Saturday, I mostly just read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and caught up on The Office and Grey's Anatomy in the morning and then met Heidi and Amanda in Zurich in the afternoon. We had dinner at a place called "Papa Joe's" which Heidi's host mom recommended for their great Mexican food. Out of the three or four options for "Mexican food" on the menu, I chose nachos. Not that they were terrible or anything, but this was probably the worst plate of nachos I've ever had. The Swiss so far have not had very good foreign food. Perhaps I'm a little biased or maybe it's just what I'm used to but Mexican, Asian, and Indian food here (that I have tried, anyways) has been pretty crappy. However, the regular Swiss or German food has always been delicious. The other day I had what was basically a sausage sliced down the middle and set in a hot pocket. And it was so good.
Anyways, after dinner at Papa Joe's, Amanda went home to hang out with her family. Probably the last thing I want to do on a Saturday night is to go home and hang out with my kids. But that's me. Heidi and I decided not to go out to bars since she was not feeling well and we were not really dressed going-out appropriate. We decided to see High School Musical 3 in a theater. Such a great movie, although I don't know many people my age besides Heidi who would appreciate it as much as I did. Oh and a weird thing about Europe: they have intermissions in movie theaters. Why? No idea, but the lights went up and we had a 10 or 15 minute break before the movie resumed. Personally, I thought it was annoying.
I do not have any pictures to post this week, sorry. Honestly, it's just been pretty uneventful in my neck of the woods lately. The highlight of my week has been checking the mail every day to see if the books I ordered recently have arrived yet. It's definitely time to do some more traveling!
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I was traveling in Panama for Thanksgiving one year. I tried explaining the holiday to some other kids at the hostel. Several of them were from Europe and their take on it was pretty much, So you get together to eat with pilgrims? And I'm like yeah, thats right so Who wants to go out to dinner and celebrate? But Thanksgiving in Spain? I'd take it over eating with Pilgrims any day!
Have fun - Chrystle
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