EuroUrs

the sex and the city version of EuroTrash

i got back from the netherlands on friday night. part of the train ride was terrible because there were highschool kids on board, and they were soooooo loud i had to turn my iPod almost to max to drown them out. in fact, the two guys beside me were also not super impressed with them, and we all breathed a sigh of relief once they left.

i can't believe how nice it was to visit my host-family. really. i think it saved my sanity. :o)

on saturday morning i left for basel, switzerland, to meet up with tim. i haven't seen tim in ages... well, like 6 years to be slightly more precise. again, really awesome to reconnect with him. i did end up at the wrong train station, and in case you don't know, the swiss accent of german is different enough that my baden german accent mixed with dutch and canadian just wasn't cutting it.

tim and i basically walked around the city going from one fair section to the next. he even tried his hand at hitting cans with a ball to win a prize... which he did. a little blue mouse we called whiskey. embarassingly, tim had to pay for everything because i hadn't exchanged money into francs, but with a promise to visit me in ireland and allow me to return the favour, all was good.

we had an extended coffee/tea break at starbucks and used the toilet twice (where in the button for my jeans fell off, and not the one that was loose, the one that seemed stable, luckily i was wearing a belt) walked by the river, ate chestnuts toasted on the street, stopped outside the church for some chatting, almost went into a museum, checked out some of the high street and made tim try on a cute chocolate brown zippy sweater. it was great. it's so nice when you can reconnect so well with someone that you haven't seen in so long. and it's not like there's been lots of emailing or any blog exchanging. anyway yeah, it was nice. oh! we even found a place that sells clinique, because that morning i was washing my face, with one half of my broken face bar, and it fell down the sink. then i was like, oh, no problem, i have another half... which i promptly dropped down the sink as well. argh.

something that is not so EuroUrs? i really need to make myself accept european prices. they are insane, but i need to not keep comparing, and just relax about it. starting... now. okay.

yesterday i was left in the house by myself for most of the day. christoph came by and we played some cards, then atilla came by too. atilla is basically ali g. i may have mentioned that before. anyway, then i pretty much booted them out, because they started talking about fußbal and it was making me mental.

later annemarie came home, we got some thai food for dinner. markos came over and then malina. and christoph came back too.

today is annemarie's birthday. she got tickets for her and me to a hockey game. canada vs. usa on thursday. awwww yeah! saweet.