In Switzerland

I've made it abroad!

After all the problems that went wrong this summer it's a miracle to be living in Lausanne, Switzerland. I've been here for six days now and so have gotten a feel for the city. It's absolutely gorgeous here and kinda strange with all the fields of corn, vineyards, and sheep interspersed with fine shopping and dining all over throughout the city. My mom came over with me to help me get settled in and buy me furniture and pay for other expenses which is great because everything is expensive here. As we have explored looking for the different places we needed to go to we have gotten lost countless times and still have neglected to find the metro stop downtown which is very frustrating.

School has started here, but I arrived late and so missed the language placement test for EFLE (the school of French for those who speak it as a foreign language) so I get to take the test on the 28th with all the other poor confused international students that didn't make it to school on time. I can't take any classes until I take the test and so that means I have another week to get things figured out which is good considering the amount of paperwork that I have had to fill out because I came over as an illegal immigrant because my visa is taking forever to come through.

So basically while here I've tried to understand all the French arround me although people have asked me questions in German and Spanish. (I think they were asking for directions but I don't know, somehow I look like I know things and so people keep asking me questions, luckily my French has been good enough to reply to all the ones in French exept one, but since I am learning on the fly I really think that I'm not the best to consult...) Other than that we have figured out the bus and metro system. Saturday was the Nuit des Musees. It's a once a year event where you can buy one ticket and go to all the museums in town from 2 in the afternoon until 2 at night. There were 22 different museums to go to and I managed to get through 10 before I was tired and sick of going to museums. So I've had some culture already here. Oh! I was adopted by a Swiss family here. They live about 10 minutes away from me and have had me over for some traditional Swiss food. They are very nice and have volunteered to take me to tour castles in France and lend me a bike for the year.
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My adventure is on and tomorrow I'm going to IKEA to get some more furniture. I posted some pics of the city on facebook if anyone wants to see.