Prior Lake Student on Rotary Exchange to Switzerland

Anne-Marie Card is spending her Rotary Exchange year in Switzerland and is publishing a blog to document her experiences abroad. Here is an excerpt from her latest entry:

Sunday, June 16, 2013

I Lived
Ok wow. I have three weeks left of my exchange. And I may or may not be super far behind on writing this blog. Oops.
Let’s see:
April: I switched host families, and went to Rome and Venice (and took 500 pictures). My new host family is great. I feel like I haven’t been around them much because I keep going on trips and things, but they are still awesome. I have three host sisters; the oldest went to Australia two years ago on exchange, so she speaks to me in English, then the middle speaks Swiss German or High German, and the youngest pretty much only High German. It makes my brain keep thinking! Haha The trip to Rome and Venice was with all the Rotary Exchange students (well 54 of them). It was SO much fun. We had 3 days in Rome and 2 in Venice, and we walked  A LOT. It was also 4 to a room, and when you have four teenagers in a room together, not much sleeping happens. I guess it was good we walked so much, so we went to bed a little earlier at least. Haha Like I said earlier, I took 500 photos just on that trip, so I’ll try to pick out the best ones to post on here. :]
May: First I sang in a choir concert, on May 1, 3, 4, and 5. Most of the songs were in other languages, including Swiss German, English, French, Italian, and Portuguese. I only sang one song in Swiss German, but we did sing three in English. My favorite one we sang was Bohemian Rhapsody, except they can’t pronounce the “th” sound so we would sing “sympaTy” instead of the right way. Haha My second favorite was the French one we sung called Tourdion. Each section (bass, tenor, alto, soprano) sings different verses, and they sound so pretty together. It’s also a drinking song haha. I also went to my friends Opera concert on May 8. Next I went with my current host family to France from May 9 to the 11. We were visiting a friend of my host mom who lives near Annecy. We also went to this really cool (scary) gorge called Les Gorges du Fier. There was a walkway built into the side of the gorge. And the water rushed below us.
Got back, had school for a week, and then went to France again! :] This time to Alsace from the 17th to the 20th with my first host family....

Go to http://swissmorningadventures.blogspot.com/ to read the rest of this entry or any other. Hundreds of photos are also available on the blog.