Saturday, July 01, 2006
Hello, World!

Its close to midnight now.. but I can't sleep just yet because I have to wait for Isyak which is at 1230! We just checked into the hostel in Fribourg. It ROCKS! the room is splendid, the location is good..Loves it!

Its near to the main train station, the university and the supermarket, whose name is coop! And we NUS undergrads call it co-op ah. We actually asked the international relations officer if "things at the co-op are cheap". She gave us weird stares.

So anyway the prices of things here in Fribourg aren't that high, as compared to Zurich where I was for the past two days. I bought 3 1.5Lbottles of Ice tea for 2.25 francs. Not bad eh. Bread here is ROCK hard! WHY AH!?

Rewind to yesterday: We got out of Zurich and took a train to northern Switzerland, romanshorn, where Lake Constance is. Its at the German-swiss border. Nice place, where I had fries from a seafood stall by the lake for 4 francs! Expensive ah, but its the cheapest of all the nonsense they have here and the servings are big.


seafood stall by the lake


Then we moved from ROmanshorn to St Gallen! St Gallen ROCKS!!!!! Shopping was great! This were relatively cheaper and I love the buildings. Well of course we went crazy at the chocolate store. hehe.

So moving on to technical details.. Temperature here is around 24 degrees in the day and now its probably around 17 or 18. The hostel doesn't have aircon..so I just open my window...voila! Natural aircon. Downside is that the people are still making noise..aftermath of the italia-ukraine match just now. They're still chanting Deutschland Deutschland! WOOHOO!

I'm at the 6th floor..and my room has the view of the alps! I actually took a video of my room and the scenery outside..just haven't upload.

Anyway, as much as I'm loving every minute I'm in Switzerland right now, I'm missing home really badly!

Just keep checking my photo album at the sidebar yup. I'll post all photos there. (because im too lazy to photoshop all the photos!)

We'll be going to the market with our mentors tomorrow to get essentials. Vege, fruits, etc. The german-learning people, we have this german girl, yes from germany..and the french-learning people have this hot guy from America!

And guess whatttt!? The hot guy will be taking the german classes with us! haha!

Okay ah, 2 more mins and its isyak. I still haven't ironed my clothes for tomorrow!

I'll update soon with more photos!

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