My first weekend with my new Family

My first weekend with my new family took place on a bus trip around Switzerland and parts of Germany with my Host parents.

I didn't really know what was going on this weekend. I was told that I was going on a family trip to an island in Switzerland. However it turned to that it was just the host parents and I who were going on the trip...and in fact we were going with a bus load of people from my host parents horse club, and we were going on trip around parts of Switzerland and Germany.

Going on this trip mean that I had to get up and be ready to go at about 6 o'clock in the morning.
However for me this early start was in fact not to early and was more like a normal old school day (when I say 'normal old' I mean from when I lived at the Rutti's ,because now 6 is a sleep in as i have to get up at 5;30 for school). So I awoke got ready and off we drove in the car to the bus catching area.

The bus we caught was no normal but it was the Swiss national soccer teams bus....so this meant it was a luxury liner……… and when I say luxury I mean leather chairs and coffee machines kind of luxury.




The side of the bus was also really cool.



We drove off to our first stop...a water fall. ……..This area was so lovely. It had sweet little Swiss houses (i just had to take a photo of them as I just love Swiss houses so much).



The waterfall was also very cool. I love water falls, I think they are amazing. I just love all of the water rushing down and the roaring sound they make.


I saw the coolest poster ever.....Well I thought it was fun anyway.




We then hopped back on the bus and drove on...to were?…. I had no idea. ( i actualy had no idea about the whole trip , I just hopped on the bus when told and then hopped off when instructed).

Our next stop was at the side of a lake. It turned out we were going on a boat to an Island.


The boat ride was really nice. I love boat rides so much, they are so lovely.....I just miss the water so much. I think it is so odd not seeing the water every day. I miss it.






We then arrived at the island. The water was so clear that you could see fish swimming around……… totally fascinating, and totally awesome.







The island turned out to be and island of flowers. It took me a while to realize but the island was actually in German waters, so in Germany. (I worked this out by the fact that we started to pay for things in euros etc, and I knew we were not in France as we were still all speaking German).


This island was so gorgeous. There were flower sculptures, black statuses that looked just stunning against the blue sky, flowers as far as the eye can see…and even a giant flower made out of flowers….I thought this was so cleaver and wicked that I got a photo f me an my new host mum standing in front of it.














We then walked around the island and saw this man doing something with a tree. We came closer and it turned out he was a tree cutter man. But no normal tree cutter he was doing it wall with ropes and was climbing up about 40 meters and then cutting the tree form up there. It was amazing to watch him. He shot a rope up into the tree then attached other ropes and pullies etc until he had a strong line with witch he would hoist himself with special clips etc…. up 40 meters into the tree. Just amazing. I was watching thinking…I so want to give that ago. Not the tree cutting part…just the tree climbing extreme style part.








After the tree man we found a butterfly house filled with just gorgeous butterflies…..they really are stunning creatures. They all are so different, yet all are so beautiful and so fragile. So after the butterfly house it was time to leave the island and hop back on our bus.

We stopped the bus outside a hotel (so I realised we must be staying there the night., yet I was not sure if we were in Germany or Switzerland) We went inside and I went up to my single room. I looked around and looked at a menu thing in the room and saw the prices were in euros…..we were in Germany. For me this was so odd that we had driven through boarders of countries with out me even realising

That night we had a feat for dinner. I had so much food. I was given deer meat, sauces, salad, chips, cheese etc…..I was so full I couldn’t eat my dessert of ice-cream and fruit.

By this time I was exhausted, so I went up to bed and slept until the next morning.



The next morning we had breakfast at 8.00am. A very civilised hour if you ask me.

We had a German breakfast where meat and heaps of bread and cheese. I even fund a little mini Nutella sachet so had someone my bread.

Our first destination for the day was Appenzeller cheese factory. This was very awesome as they had a hug big cheese playground outside. I also got a photo of me on a big model painted cow.






Inside the factory was the smell of Swiss cheese….so yummy. We looked a the factory, watched video and then had lunch………….a fondue hot do (so a roll filled with fondue cheese) SO YUMMY








We then hopped back on the bus and went to our next destination………..a park with these sledge rides……..like a cross between bobsledding and go carting…..so a lot of fun.








We went up to the top of a hug hill by a chair lift. The view was just awesome. We then went down on our sledge things really fast………so much fun


We then went back up the hill but this time to the top so we could go for a bush walk back down again. On the way up on the lift I saw a field of cows with cow bells. I love the sound of cow bells it is just so Swiss. I so have to buy a cow bell so that if I ever feel home sick for Switzerland I can ring my cow bell and be home in the alps.





After our bush walk back down (with many photo opportunities as it was so pretty)





we hopped back in the bus and drove home. It was a very fun weekend. It was hard at times with the language as it was not that my German was not up to scratch it was just that with my new host parents they have a different way of communicating to the Rutti family, This host family explain things a bit different and use words I have not heard before. However it is a really go thing in way as it means my German is only going to improve.