So far december has been a pretty quality month! Friday the 3rd I went to Lucerne (about 1.5 hours by train) with 2 of my friends Jess and Mylisha. We met up with a couple other exchange students and went to a fest thing called Klausjagen. In all honesty it was really bizarre, but still a lot of fun! There was a parade and crazy guys with whips, and just a lot of nonsense...
The parade.
Those things were paper mache and had real
candles inside, which seems to a bit of a fire hazard in my opinion.
The whip guy!
The next day (saturday the 4th) was St. Nicolas! In a lot of Swiss families it's celebrated even more than christmas, but my family isn't too into it, but it was still a lot of fun! I am in a choir here, so we sang at a massive church service in town at the Cathedral of St. Nicolas. The church was built in the 1400's so it's so beautiful!
Cathedral of St. Nicolas
Before the church service starts there is a massive parade through the town and St. Nicolas walks through the streets. He then comes to the church and climbs up to the top of the cathedral and gives a speech to the crowd below. Since we were getting ready to sing we got to be inside of the church during the speech, so we snuck up to a balcony on the outside of the church and were able to see all the people below! It was so amazing because there were thousands of people in the street who all came to here St. Nicolas' speech! Afterwards we climbed back down and sang a couple of songs during the service. It was a bit bizarre for me because it was a catholic service, which I've never attended. and then on top of that it was in french, so I was pretty lost the entire time... but it was still cool!
The people of Fribourg!
Sunday was a pretty awesome day, because I went to the Ke$ha concert in Zürich with 4 other friends! It was pretty much nothing compared to Lady Gaga last month, but I'm still super glad I went! Not gonna lie, I wasn't expecting anything over the top from her, but I was pretty impressed with her talent! She sang a lot of her classic songs, which made me pretty happy.
Me with Whitney and Grace.
Obviously confetti was involved at the Ke$ha concert :)
For some reason the people of Switzerland don't appreciate Ke$ha as much as us crazy americans, so there was literally no security at the concert. So afterwards Whitney managed to sneak back stage and ended up meeting Ke$ha! She said she was really chill and was like "do you want a picture or an autograph or something?" She didn't seem too concerned that crazy people had managed to get backstage....
Whitney with Ke$ha and another girl who snuck backstage as well
A few random things:
1. I got my psych test back last week and I got a 32% which is pretty quality seeing as how I guessed on everything
2. You are not allowed to take pictures in H&M
3. Swiss security guards do not appreciate it when you climb on abandoned trains
4. Hot wine (vin chaud) is very tasty!
That's all for now. Ciao!
