More Adventures in Lausanne, Switzerland

*from 25 May 2012
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Here I am, once again, on a train attempting to catch up on journaling. This time around, I am en route to Amsterdam.

Okie dokes back to Balelec.We saw some guys dressed as Pac-Man & ghosts. Sometimes I wasn't exactly sure how to dance to the music, but it was still fun. Later, we met up with some other friends. We went into one of the buildings with dubstep type music, and then went back to the other group for a bit. We left around 2am.

A LOT of people

Listening to some dubstep

May 12: We got ready and had breakfast at the apartment. Then we went to meet another friend (she and I went to the same middle school before and she graduated from the same high school as our friend we were staying with in Lausanne) at the train station [if I remember correctly, she was studying abroad or working in France at the time]. We stopped by the apartment to drop her bags off and then went grocery shopping. We returned to the apartment to make lunch--pasta & salad. I also tried some comté that she brought from France. I worked on homework while they watched a tv show. We left to find a church to go to Mass--it was a traveling church--but we couldn't find it...the directions weren't clear online. We asked some people for directions to the street. One lady ended up telling them (my two friends both spoke French, as did the lady) about how her kids used to go to school near there. We would've been like 30 minutes late (or more) if we decided to still go We decided just to go the next day in the morning. We did a little sight-seeing--Lausanne's Cathedral (not Catholic) and the shoreline. We went back to the apartment and they cooked dinner while I did more homework (machine design). We had salmon, rice, zucchini, and wine. We were all pretty tired so we didn't go out. After dinner, I finished my machine design homework.  

Cathedral

Shoreline

 May 13: I got ready, packed up my stuff, and then had breakfast. We went to go to Mass, but our friend and I needed bus tickets, but the machine only accepted coins (in my opinion, not a very smart concept). [Side note: I'm missing my family a lot right now. :/] The three of us went to a gas station to get change and we split a chocolate croissant. We walked back to the bus stop and got tickets. We got off at the stop and walked toward church. We saw 3 people and guessed they were going to Mass, so we kind of followed them. Church was at a grade school and it was pretty packed. We got there during the homily, and it happened to be Confirmation weekend. The Mass was in English. 

After Mass, we walked toward the shoreline. We stopped by a bakery where I bought a panini for lunch. We also walked by the Olympic museum and some clay tennis courts. We took the metro to the train station--I got some postcards and some snacks for the ride. I waited with my friends for the train and said goodbye. [On the train to Lausanne, I wished I was more extroverted & could speak German because a Swiss guy in army uniform sat right across from me on the train.] During my train ride back to Konstanz, I thought about home. 

Yummy panini

The Olympic museum is behind that barricade in that general direction.

Waiting for the train

Train Life: snack, journal, mp3 player

I arrived in Konstanz and on my way back to my apartment, I picked up some döner pizza for dinner. Back at the apartment, I called my friend in Lausanne and then Skyped with my mom--she left Skype on so I could watch/listen to the tv while I studied for fluids. 

Delicious pizza!

May 14: Wake up. Breakfast. Nap. Get ready. Lunch in the mensa. Study fluids. Skype. Döner pizza for dinner.

May 15: Mommy's bday! :)

-will continue later.


Peace. Love. Happiness.
--TR