Hey Everyone!

"Surprisingly the girl abroad decided to keep a blog"- said no one ever.

However! Despite how predictable this blog may be I thought it would be a more effective way of keeping others up to date on my happenings. Especially now that I will be charged an arm and a leg for phone calls and texts. Though still very reachable through email, facebook, or skype, approximately every Friday I hope to write my own Friday Five. This simply means that every Friday I will list at least 5 points that have to do with my week. Fun! Sometimes this might mean Sunday night.... or Monday. But it will usually be formatted as a Friday Five.

And on that note! Here is my first ever Friday Five:

1. I had both the longest and shortest night of my life. It was short because when I got on the plane it was 6pm 7 hours passed and then it was 6am when i got of the plane. It was long because there was an extremely concerned dad in front of me who kept getting up to check on his older kids, at least every half hour. Then there was not just one toddler behind me, but two. Both of whom felt the need to cry for at least an hour each on the fight. One was directly behind me and was just extremely entertained by kicking the seat in front of him. The entire night. But I guess the important thing is that we all landed safely. And that kid was going to Prague so hopefully  I won't ever have a flight with him again.

2. I got to Switzerland! It was a bit gloomy because it is very overcast and rainy, however on one of the rail rides we turned a corner and there was just this mountain, that was everything you ever would want in a Swiss alpine. It shot straight up and had a ton of snow on the top (granted it was 7degreesC outside). It is a bit cold and rainy this week, however I looked up next week and the weather looks great highs in the 60s, which is really warm for Adelboden, and sunny!! Yay I packed shorts for a reason *knocks on wood*

3. On one train I met two Irish pals. The woman lived in Bern and the man was visiting her, for about a month. I know people told me and I had read that even if you think you are going to get over to the UK and Ireland and understand what they are saying, it will still be challenging! And I was like, uh huh. I can hear English despite accents. So when I heard this pair speaking English on the tram I was probably beaming a face like *sit down next to me, sit down next me, sit down next to me* And they did! But in reality nope, it was so hard to understand what they were saying, and I had to speak very slowly for guy to follow me. However, they had some great tips and were super nice.

4. On the other hand on the bus to Adelboden I was trying to make sure I had the right stop and so I was asking around, but no one spoke a lick of English. However, their want to help me was obvious as they kept asking me in German and then nodding when I replied in english... to what I thought was their question. It was odd though, they definitely where talking about me and speculating what I was doing, but all in German. It was clear this group of older women were locals and I could tell they were gossiping about other people on the bus. I had tried girl scouts, our chalet, girl guides, but the women only half knew what I was talking about. Finally when I got off on what I suspected was my stop, one of the women got up and made sure I confirmed with the bus driver where I was going, making sure that this was the correct stop. So nice!

5. And lastly I just want to give a shout out to my mom. Without her I would not have been able to have gotten away packing as late in the game as I did... but also for other things that need to be nagged about, my mom was there :) Jk, really though could not have gotten to Our Chalet at even half so well prepared as I did cause without my mom's help. Can't wait till our trip!!! Tooooo bad I am not there to help you pack mom... I know your sad.

Have a great weekend everyone!!