Hey!!
December!?!? What is that?? Isn�t it still June!?! Not only is it December, but it�s the 12th...I think. Here I am, listening to my American Idol �THE GREAT HOLIDAY CLASSICS.� I should be buying Christmas presents but I forgot my money at home today. I guess I will do that Monday??
YES! It is the 12th! I left Duluth, Minnesota at 8h20, 4 months ago! Can you believe that? Is time passing as fast for you guys back in the states?
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. My family and relatives are still talking about how good the meal was! I think I have to make the stuffing and green beans again for them. It was a thanksgiving I was very thankful for.
So, lately I have been having nightmares. They usually consist of me being back in the U.S. or I am going home. I just cry the whole time. One dream was in the pasture with the horses, Gennie, Emma, Brent, Brenda, Stacey, and there were other people but of course I don�t remember all. Then Rodrigo�the Hair God--came!! I told him he was my inspiration and that last year I lived in Switzerland. Then I just started to cry because I was back in the U.S. and last year I lived (past tense) in Switzerland. Then I wake up. I have lots of dreams in that genre. Don�t get me wrong, I do miss you guys. It�s just that I am not ready to come home.
I haven�t been horse back riding for awhile! I want to go. The last time I went was with Elise. We were just gonna lounge Kalin. However, Martial took Kalin and we took Farendahl (sp??). After lounging her, Elise decided to ride bareback. Then I decided yeah, I want to ride. After pulling some muscles to finally get up, I rode around. Of course, Elise and I decided, we should ride together. Hence, we rode tandem bareback for some good time. We had some troubles getting on since normally we have to help eachother get up. So we found some weird white thing and she stood on that. I was in the front and I was being shoved on the withers....ooooo it hurt! We decided we should get off and get back to the house before Martial shows up and sees us and before dark. We couldn�t get off!! Elise tried and tried. Then I tried to get off from the front�that didn�t work either. After about a 5 minute struggle we both dismounted. And there...coming down the rode was Martial and Kalin!! He missed it! If he would have seen our long struggle to get off he would have never have stopped making fun of us! Then afterwards he made a remark about how are pants had dirt marks on the legs. We just lounged her....we sat on the ground. hahahhaha
Last weekend I was at the Cactus and Pascal (17yearold from the band) asked me what my favorite sport was. I told him Horses and we just went off talking about horses. Then Meyer (some friend I was introduced to) came over and the 3 of us talked about horses. They both ride at Orsonnens! www.elevage-moulin.ch So they told me about this Coupe de Monde jumping competition in Geneva that weekend. I told them, �I�m already going!!� I exchanged phone numbers with Meyer and we agreed to meet on Sunday. Pascal started talking about Arabians and I said what? I love Arabians! Then we had a dispute with Meyer about how great they are. Then Vladimir received a phone call from Xavier and he had to go home cause Xavier forgot his key so we had to leave. It was 2h30 in the morning! I sure hope I can start taking lessons soon! Last night I asked Pascal when the next time he is going to ride and he said he didn�t know yet. I want to watch his lesson. lol.
I don�t look forward to going to band as much anymore. All the people are starting to scare me a bit. G�rard, well he�s G�rard. He jokes around with me, but lately he finds it funny to say that I am in love with Vladimir. Vladimir�well, I was happy because the percussion started and it would give me a young person to talk to. After boire un verre one night he told me he would take me to the cactus the next week. I figured he forgot until 9h30 Friday night and I received a text message saying �Can I come pick you up?� So then we went out with his friends and afterwards to Farvagny at Cactus. After that night, I thought he wanted to be more than just friends. I just want friends! Then on Monday he said hi to me and I said hi and I said that I think I am getting sick and we didnt talk much after that. After practice I went up to him and asked what he was doing and he told me. �Not tonight, I�m too tired.� Then I responded. �Can you take me home, cause Pierre-Alain left early.� So he gave me a ride home. I saw him again last night and he didn�t really even say bye to me when he left, but I don�t enjoy talking to him that much anymore. Yves�he�s the guy that picks me up to go to band. He�s the one that Marielle refers to as �He�s not goodlooking.� then Pierre-Alain replies, �Stop! but he�s nice� then we all laugh. Usually, he breaths really fast, doesn�t talk, and the car is overwhelmed with cologne. Last night, he talked. He talked all the 30 minutes to Villar-sur-Glane. He came to the house at 6 and told me he would pick me up at 7h15. The practice starts at 8h15. Nevertheless, he arrived at 7h10. We arrived at 7h40 like everyone else. Of course, we are swiss, we must boire un verre. The whole car ride, we were listening to Britney Spears and he would sing under his breath!!!! Then he was asking me questions about what my full name is. Then he asked what I was doing for New Years. Well guess what...it�s not gonna be with him! I wrote a text message to Marielle describing this hiliarious situation and she wrote me back saying, �Sing with him.� I laughed the whole way there. I figured I would ask Vladimir to give me a ride home to escape the confined area with Yves, his music, and perfume, but like I said, he left without even saying goodbye. Pascal�he�s insane but he rides horses!! Xavier�we joked around all last night. He�s pretty cool. I�m glad I am next to him cause he plays the sax too. Yup, that is the band as of right now.
I haven�t done anything with my Tandem partner for a good two weeks. Hm. Oops.
Are Americans really the scum of the Earth? Everyone feels the need to tell me. �I hate your President.� Sometimes it is English and sometimes it is French. The term �American� is just an aggective to describe something bad. For examples, I walked to the train station with David�s brother, Steve. He told me people make fun of his name cause it is American. In the school band, the director won�t even speak to me because he doesn�t know English. He says things in French and tells someone to explain to me. I tell him before the person can start explaining. I understood what you said, but does he listen? We were playing one song and he stopped it. He then said �That sounded like the end of an American movie.� in other words he was saying we played horrible. I also read a book where the narrator spoke of how she wasted her time watching some American movie. May I add this was a book for 10 year olds. Has anyone seen the movie Finding Nemo? Well, it just came out here. There is one scene where the fish discuss how humans think they rule the Earth. However, in the French version they talk about how Americans think they rule the Earth. Now I know why they all of the same stereotypes, they implant it into their children at very young ages! Only the American exchange students have problems, all the others don�t get remarks like this.
We have a new student (I think) French teacher for French with the Swiss Germans. I love my Swiss German class. They talk to me. This teacher is horrible, she�s mean! As Cory said, �Ugly people have to be nice.� She yelled at me the other day cause I didn�t finish my homework. I don�t understand it and I don�t have a book like the rest of the class! She is always speaking German too. How am I supposed to understand the class?? Ohhh and her voice. It�s horrid! She doesn�t even know French. She makes so many errors herself. When she speaks with the real teacher, she speaks Italian. Then they were talking and she snapped at him. Bella said in English, �Who�s the teacher?� Then, Nima, Bella (both are boys) and I just started laughing. It was great. I don�t think she understands English.
Grr, I really don�t care to go to two hours of Italian! I think I will make more cookies this afternoon and heat up the house, or something of that nature. We got the exercise bike after me begging!! It isn�t a bike. It�s a wheel with a strap around it. It�s interesting but it works. I will probably go running today since I will go home at 12h15. Still day light! Then I will leave at 7 to play in this play with the band. I still really don�t understand what we are doing. I will find out tonight and explain next week!
Ciao,
Kris
P.S. the sad thing is, the last time I wrote my update it was longer than this and it was more descriptive and more interesting to read. I also forgot alot of what I had in there. It was more comments and not so much briefing. Too bad it got deleted!! So, you will have to make do with reading this for now!!
December 4 Journal Entry