So I made a visit to the Swiss Alps this weekend. It was more than amazing! Interlaken is a beautiful city located between two lakes. I love making these weekend trips because you meet so many new people from around the world. For instance Saturday I went night sledding with about 12 girls, 8 I didn’t even know but now are new friends. Night sledding is intense! You go about 30 miles down a hill on a plastic sled, the steering takes all your strength from your legs, you can’t see some of the path, and every once in awhile you have to dodge a tumbling person. I flew off my sled a good four times. The first time down the advanced course I flew over an embankment and down the hill a little bit. It is more dangerous than skydiving, hang gliding, skiing, snowboarding, or any other activity they provide. It was an adrenaline rush!
Talking about adrenaline rush… Sunday morning I went canyon jumping! You can only canyon jump three places in the world: New Zealand, Switzerland, and Napole. I will try to upload a video on here and it will explain it all :) I have skydived before and this was was more intense. You have to jump off yourself and you see the ground get closer and closer! They said I was doing the running man the whole way down with my arms and legs just flailing. Hahaha.
When you study abroad there are programs you can go through to travel. I went through Florenceforfun but there are also euroadventures and bus2alps. The are expensive but everything is planned out for you.
I am having the time of my life over here. The weekend before I went to Amsterdam to celebrate my 21st! It was one crazy fun time! A birthday I will never forget. It was nice because it was ISU’s spring break and I had friends from home go to Amsterdam and meet me there. It was nice to see people from home. It did make me a tad bit homesick, but that’s already gone. Florence is my home now. It will be weird when it is time to go home and I won’t be able to see my new friends here everyday. Some of them I might never see again! I still have two months here and I am already thinking about how sad it will be. You start a new life when you go abroad. I have two friends here that will be my friends forever. Kristen and Liza and they both are from upstate New York. Every summer here on out I will be going to NY for a visit. Because of studying abroad my life will never be the same.
I will try to upload that video now… you will crack up!
Ciao!
