Bern

Yesterday I went on a little excursion. To Bern. I think it's kind of strange travelling for forty minutes in a train and arriving in another city that speaks a completely different language to the city you just left. But it was really really fun. I was with all the other Australian kids on this exchange for a whole day speaking English fluently with other people. It's been three weeks since I last did that. ^^

First we visited the Swiss equivelant of Parliament House. They had just elected a new President the day before, so it was interesting to be one of the first people to see her in action. After that we went to the Museum of Communication, which was actually really cool. It had four exhibitions with some of the different kinds of communication: mobile phones, computers and tv, telephones and the postal service. It was really cool to go around the room and see computers that took up a whole room, and move along and see them change so quickly to the modern laptops and notebooks that everyone has today. And the same with mobile phones. They were MASSIVE when they first came out, with tiny little screens, but now most of the mobile phones we have are nothing BUT screens! (aka. iPhone)

We ate lunch in a small restaurant, which was absolutely delicious, and then had free time to go shopping and sight seeing and whatever else we wanted to do. I visited this really massive, really beautiful cathedral that I can't remember the name of, and then I went into a souvenir shop that should rename itself 'rip-off' (I bought a bag for 18Francs there) and then we went to look at the bears. The bear is the animal mascot/icon thingy of the state of Bern, so they have three very sad looking bears in two very small enclosures (probably only 50m x 100m each). Apparently they have an eagle in Geneva, because that's the animal icon of Geneva. And then the time was up because we had spent so long in the Cathedral so I quickly bought a hot chocolate from Macca's and went to the train station. And then I went back home.

But before we actually got home, I went to a shopping centre with my Swiss mum and sisters. It was so cool. They have such cheap clothes (relative to everything else in Switzerland) in some of those shops! But I forgot to take my money, so I couldn't buy anything. It's probably better that way. And then I went back home. For real this time. And ate a delicious lasagne for dinner and went to bed. And that was my day of no school (yay!). :)