Kung-fu fighting

Well, I have promised (and I'm sure it's expected of me) to show some differences between Switzerland and Norway. I honestly don't know what it is, but I don't feel like I've gotten a culture shock of any kind. The only thing that sucks is that sometimes I get homesick. Mostly at night (when in Norway I'd normally be swimming/training or buried in homework I hadn't done yet) or when something that makes me think of someone/thing. Like the other day I decided I wanted to have a braid in my hair, and then I started thinking of Kamilla, who would alway braid my hair in a gazillion ways (when I had long hair), and then that moved further on to all the good times I've had with my friends the past year. And there we go, I got upset and.. oh my god, I'm listening to the tv in the background and there is such a thing as the worlds most expensive bed. It costs 60 000 Euros.. wow

It just fits too good with what I wrote.

This is how I've learned to deal with my homesickness, I let myself get distracted. I'll tell you, it works like hell! Something else that's working as hell, is school. This is one of the places where I see the biggest difference between Norway and Switzerland. I will not claim myself as professor in Swiss educations systems, but I have started to wrap my mind around this now.

Whereas in Norway we can't really become anything without going to school first, here they choose wether they want to go to uni or not at the age of 12 (I'm sure there are loopholes, but I haven't picked that up yet). In other words where we feel like we are being forced to going to school everyday for about 13 years, these suckers choose it. heah, nah, I'd choose it too, but that's because I've always known I wanna be highly educated (there have been times where I was willing to drop it to become a ninja, but then I realized I can't really jump that high..). What I want to study I still don't know.

Picture irrelevant, I just hate it when there's too much text. I know that photos are a lot more fun to watch. I just happen to have this kind of humour (looked through my LOL map few days ago, and I almost peed myself, and then crawled under my bed in shame because I laughed at that stuff).

Anypoo, the differences. First of all they have taken the subject we in Norway call Science and made three subjects; Biology (this is okay), Chemistry LAB (this is also okay because I get to wear cool goggles once every two weeks) and Physics (this is not that okay..). They do pretty much the same as we do - just a lot more complicated (This might be because it's in German, but I like to think not). They concentrate deeply on more mathematical subjects (they don't offer Religion, politics, philosophy or subjects like that) and economics is mandatory. You can choose to have music, sports, italian and Latin too (not all of them, ofc), but I still sense a big difference in priorities.

It's a liiiiitle bit over the top, but you have to admit you smiled just a tiny bit?

Schooldays are definitely longer, they have homework (in Norway you can get by without doing your homework, just read to all the tests and do the hand-ins and you'll be okay), they have more tests than oral performances and I am extremely convinced that the country of Switzerland hate the rainforest. In every subject there is an insane amount of paper handed out to every student all the time. I get why and tbh I'm too tired to be bothered to discuss this back and forth (I know I'm right anyways), but if I ever end up here teaching, I'll be printing on both sides..

On the other hand, if they were printing on both sides I wouldn't be able to draw ninjas on the back. Epic ninja fight will take place next Monday when I also have two extremely boring hours of PP. Haha, btw, one guy in my class (being good here, not mentioning names) has read my blog and found out about my habit of drawing ninjas (damnit, wasn't very ninja of me to post it here, but oh well.), and today he drew ninjas in English class and showed them to me. This seriously made my week

I don't know what other differences in the school system I can explain (I do, but simpsons is on), and when I am very inspired I'll give you a five page long essay of some kind. Apart from being homesick from time to time, things are going great here. The most amazing thing has happened; I'm actually looking forward to going to school (Yeah, apart from the getting up before the sun thing)! Who would've thought? I received 3 high-fives today, this means that I've done enough good for one day.

Oh did you happen to notice up here that I said I heard the Tv? I don't have to look directly at the tv and concentrate deeply to know what they're talking about anymore! Yay me!

Cheers for now

Sunny

Wowet

(Made up a word!)

Have no idea how this is even possible, but even though I'm doing nothing everyday, I still don't have time to do anything. I mean, I use forever to do stuff that normally I don't think about. Like homework - takes forever (and I end up doing it 50%), cleaning my (tiny) room - takes forever, finding something to wear - still not satisfies! (I miss my wardrobe, damnit!) Mommy? If you read this, there is supposed to be this small, completely simple, black skirt laying around somewhere in my wardrobe. If you find it, I would be very thankful. Also, need more woolen tights! (this is where I insert a heart for both my mum and for woolen tights)

I hope you get that the heart is more for my mum than for my woolen tights, I love my mum much more, clearly, but she knows that.

So today it's Friday and I'm going to meet people and actually do something. Woopwoop. I will soon give you a long, pondering, deep, intellectual and reflected post, I just need time to sit down and be pondering, deep, intellectual and reflected (requires tea and a certain type of music and it kinda has to be Sunday too..).

I've listened to this song a gazillion times lately. I loove it!

Well, everything is doing great, just need some more sports (I miss swimming so much, I'm at a loss for words). I'll get that working soon (might start dancing, and with some gymnastics, trying new stuff).

Cheers

(or at least until Sunday)

Sunny

I'm alive!

Alright, so I'm trying to get this blogging back on track! Blogging about everyday life in Switzerland gets really boring. Wanna know why? Because it's every day life. I mean, there's really nothing interesting to write about.. Alsoo, it might be that I have been dead tired for the last week (two weeks?), and just had no inspiration to write or anything.

Just to keep you updated; I still live in a piece of artwork.

In addition, I've had a little downer. By now it's long gone, and things are picking up. I mean, things are just fantastic. I've got a great family, starting to make friends on my own, and my class just kicks ass (some teachers are not as great, but I'll live).

Just to prove my statement above, I have included myself in a photo. I was there and this photo makes me speechless! Wow!

What do people want to know about this? Want to know exactly how I feel in writing moment? Want to know about swiss people? About my everyday swiss life? What are you all curious to know? Maybe you just want photos with a little bit of text? A new video (then you'll have to wait until I lose my voice again)? Give me themes! If not, I'll just ramble on once a week about food, homework, school and whatnot. Doubt I'll be as emotional and personal as I was below here. I realize how stupid it looks right now, but I don't have the heart to remove it. It is possible to miss someone and enjoy yourself at the same time!

I still have a huge grin on my face. AND HELP ME, I NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH MY HAIR! WHAT TO DO? It sucks, because it's just too long and not long enough. SUCKS. MAKES ME ANGREY! (Haha! I wrote angry with an extra e just for bollocks, and it turned out to be a word! Doesn't show up in my dictionary, but my auto-correct isn't correcting it!)

There is something I would like to share, though!

Behold, my effectivity in class!

This is part of the first test (that has to stand in bold) I wrote in the Kanti! Woohoo. I've gotten a thing for drawing ninja's lately. I dunno why. Maybe because I feel like a ninja when I sit so close to the teacher drawing when I should be paying attention! (Don't worry, I pretty much only draw in economy, which just happens to be the last class on Mondays (well, almost last) and Tuesdays)

Another economy thing. We were given a newspaper article. I had a gazillion words I didn't know, so I marked them (that you can't see), and translated them (left). If you see all those tiny grey dots, it's an ultimate ninja fight going on. Don't know who's won yet, but I've got a Franc on the guy to the left.

I don't always draw stupid cartoonies! Was actually satisfied with this. Supposed to represent me; like, a two fishes (my zodiac, and the fact that I've done swimming pretty much my entire life (apart from here.........)) and then the things around is supposed to be flames representing the sun (well, do the math).

The one time I tried making notes in economy before I realized that I was very tired and couldn't read my teachers' handwriting.

You probs can't read what's in the center there. But all around the paper, there are tiny miniatures of animals (I've overlooked it more than once, no animal goes twice), and in the middle is says: "Economy is so much fun! I'm writing with my right hand, innit nice? I think so" in three languages. SKILZZ.

So, to sum things up; everything is going great. I'm great, school's great (inefficient, but great), glarus is great, Swisslandia is great.

Cheers for now

Sunny

Don't forget to tell me what you want to know!

Let it snow

So, today I woke up (extremely tired, headache and no voice - after five cups of warm milk and honey I can push out weak whimpering sounds) with the best view ever. Everything else was forgotten (until I got out of bed of course).

It's snowing

Yes, amazing. So it turns out that my 1316 CHF investment in a new board, new bindings, new pair of snowboarding pants and a season pass at the awesome mountain somewhere close to me was a success! Pretty sure you wanna see ooor?

Well you have to.

Front/upside (I dunno). Burton board and Burton bindings (they have cute little clouds on them, but I forgot to take a photo of that, and obviously I'm not gonna do it when I already loaded the photos)

Back/bottom (again, I dunno), pretty much the same as the front, just that it's girly! I finally have a ladyboard (when I snowboard I look like a man, so I need a ladyboard). And I've also named it Princess Peach (yes, after Princess Peach in Mario).

Me and my h-sister Hannah. My jacket is the Volcom jacket I bought last year, the pants are my new Volcom pants, and her jacket is her new Volcom jacket. There's no way anyone is gonna look cooler than us this winter!

And I have three more photos from Italy (taken by Claudia - my host mother)

The little person in the middle of the photo is me. First night (seeing as I'm taking photos and my batteries died the first night) And it's taken from their bedroom window. We were nicely placed to say it at least!

Pizza photo from pizza night. The photo doesn't show the actual size of the pizzas, because the grownups hadn't gotten their by then. But if you see the big white plate I'll explain that the pizza was about twice that size. Huge pretty much covers it.

On the way back we had like a trip to different cities in Tuscany. In this photo it's raining and yes I had shorts on. It was warm and not raining when we left. And don't worry, I'm Norwegian, we tan all the way through December, so I was just reaching for those last few rays of UV-light. (hehehe - I crack me up) Right here we are in Volterra, yes the city where they filmed a little bit of the second (or third or whatever) Twilight movie. Didn't change my mind, I found the town gorgeous before I knew. I actually liked it a little bit less after I found out, because then I started noticing all the Twilight stuff that was literally everywhere.

I really like Gnarls Barkley. Right now he's my It man.

Oh yeah, btw, I have a surprise for you. I might post my first videoblog soon. Exciting or what? I might do it tonight because I can't go out, there really is no reason for me to go out since I can't really talk to anyone. I can whisper. And whispering isn't always as funny. Bluh. Feel sorry for me bitteeeeee (<---for n00bs that means 'Please', but normally written min one 'e')

And check out this song. The Embed is disabled so I can't post the vid here. I love that song too.

Cheers for now

Sunny

I would also like to say that it's really cool that people comment on this (even though I already know then,hih). Every blogger (lol, feels weird calling myself a blogger) says this but blogging without comments is not motivating :-)))

Italien

Aaalright! Two days ago I came home from Italy. And wow, did I enjoy it. Italy has to be the most beautiful country in the world. At least Tuscany the most beautiful place I've seen (haven't seen the world yet).

Every year my family rent a small house at the beach (it's a hotel like business), based in San Vincenzo in Tuscany. I still got to see more than one part of the region; Pisa, Florence, Volterra and other places I can't remember the name of. But it was extremely pretty there too.

Me and my sisters on the first night. We tried a million times and this was still the closest we got to a jumping photo (without any of us looking awfully ugly - and I'm a nice person and won't post photos like that (hahah, good one)).

Everyday we chilled at the beach, swam in the ocean, hung out by the pool, played beach volleyball (or other games), ate Italian food, did nothing and went to bed with a ton of sand in our bed. We also did some shopping (I did some serious shopping) and I got to know people and at the same time got to know my sisters even better. It was an awesome week.

I mean, we really didn't do too much, so I don't have so much to tell; we spent long days in the sun, we ate lots of pizza and pasta, played a lot of poker, got to know people, got eaten alive by mosquitos (I had 34 bites on the way back). It was a relaxed vacation, and when I think of it we did pretty much the same every day.I'm uninspired to write, but I have photos to show. Perhaps a little show and tell is better (I think so). And we all know photos makes everything more fun.

This beach literally lasts forever. There's no end to it. The closest we came to an end is at the volleyball net, and that was a 15 minute walk (and you still couldn't see anything but beach) - I often preferred running or playing soccer, much more fun.

A few of thuh gaang. Good gang. Like 'em. Found out that two of the guys I got to know this week in Italy are in my English class (extreme advanced fancy schmancy English class, that is). Highly embarrassed that I didn't find that out until after spending 4-5 days with them. But they look different in shorts. That excuse works. Either way, they were very helpful, because they speak great English, and could help me every other word when I needed it.

Let me bury my toes in this sand every morning for the rest of my life, and I won't complain anymore.

More of the peepz. This was on pizza day. I'm serious, pizza day was pizza day. It's without a doubt the biggest pizza I've ever seen. Evuuuurr.

Sunny in the sun.

The look of a very typical Italian street. They all look the same, but every city has it's own special way of making them look, so they don't look like that either way.

This photo is really cool. Just imagine how cool it would be if the sun was placed right in between my legs? (hehehe, sun between Sunnys legs - gosh I'm funny)

We went to Pisa, it really leans, but apart from that (and the fact that it's beautiful architecture), there's nothing special about it.

Am I artistic or what? Yeah, I took this photo. Post card anyone?

Also, I thought I'd share with you what I've bought while I was here. I mean, blablabla yattayttayaytay it's not too interesting and very typical girl blog with "omg, I totally bought this and have to show it to you" but believe me, there are a few special someones called my parents who would like to know what I spend money on. And I haven't spent too much, no worries. I have a lot left.

This is bought in Switzerland. A dress, a bolero and an awesome swimsuit I used in Italy. A small brown bag that works with pretty much anything and a necklace that I use as a bracelet.

Three pants. One for snowboarding, one that I'm probably not gonna use (dark denim isn't really my thing, dunno why I bought it) and a pair that I like a lot already, wiuwiu! Also bought a blue pair sometime I was in Zürich, so now I don't need any more. I have abooout (this is where I use my fingers to count) 6 now. It'll do.

All the accessories I bought in Italy. Would say I'm sat for the rest of the year now, got a pretty deecent collection. Satisfied! (haha, will end up buying more though, I always do, but it's small and often cheap, so accessory is okay) Also bought two..erm, things for my wall. But I dunno if I'll give them away as a present to a certain someone or not..

Clothes for going out. I dunno. Looks alright or? I'm trying to become a lady, in some way. Here's a dress that sparkles, a top that sparkles, a kinda funky tank top in some way, would spice up anything boring. And a very girly scarf, with roses and pink. Woop wopp. A lot of black here, weird, I'm starting to wear black again.

Here we have two bags and two pairs of shoes. Yet again in black, but also very fashionable (trust me, I've read enough magazines to know). Boots and booties, check me out, wearing something other than sneakers!

A blazer (needs fixing, but was very cheap, so I don't might fixing it when it's cheap), a huuge scarf and a grey cardigan. I have pretty much the exact same in black, but it's being washed.

A cool vest (I've gotten addicted to spikes and so), another grey cardigan and a huge jacket that looks cool and makes me look fat. Woop.

Apart from that I'm currently enjoying another week of vacation before I start school again.

(I just noticed that it's easier for me to talk about my clothes and stuff than about what I did in Italy.. Priorities?)

Cheers for now

Sunny