The view from my room! Snow everywhere!
The forest!
Ceele and I in our intense snow shoeing gear!
Me, Simon, and Ceele!
Alexander, Me, Simon, Ceele, and Amy
The group snow shoeing!
All bundled up!
Trekking through the snow!
Eskimo!
Ceele and I! So after a fantastic winter break, I am back in Lausanne for another great semester! After the very long trip over, I spent my first two days back sleeping and resting. It felt so great to just relax and see friends again! Lausanne looks so pretty! Everything is covered in snow! It is also freezing!
Today (January 9th) was my first day out of the house since I have been back. The new semester students are going through orientation and so we have been able to tag along on some of the activities. Today's activity was snow shoeing! Now I have never been snow shoeing before so I knew it would be interesting. We made sure to get nice and bundled up before we left. I ended up wearing a tank top, a long sleeve, a sweatshirt, another sweatshirt, a ski jacket, a scarf, a head wrap, leggings, jeans, wool socks shoes, and gloves. I was bundled from head to toe but it still wasn't enough! My feet went numb as soon as we stepped outside and my face was freezing the entire time! We took the metro and the bus out to a different city up in the mountains and started snow shoeing from there through the forest. It was so beautiful! Everything was white and looked like a postcard. Snow shoeing is not as hard as I thought it would be, but it definitely was not easy! Ice kept forming in the arch of my foot and freezing making it very painful to walk. Luckily my friend Simon was there to help me get it out! We walked down different paths and ended up in the middle of this huge field with so much fresh powder! It was so much fun to play in! After exploring the woods, we were all freezing so we went and enjoyed an amazing cup of hot chocolate. On our way back, it started to snow really hard! I was so cold! I can't believe this is what I am living in now! But it is so beautiful that it makes it all worth it! :)
Today (January 9th) was my first day out of the house since I have been back. The new semester students are going through orientation and so we have been able to tag along on some of the activities. Today's activity was snow shoeing! Now I have never been snow shoeing before so I knew it would be interesting. We made sure to get nice and bundled up before we left. I ended up wearing a tank top, a long sleeve, a sweatshirt, another sweatshirt, a ski jacket, a scarf, a head wrap, leggings, jeans, wool socks shoes, and gloves. I was bundled from head to toe but it still wasn't enough! My feet went numb as soon as we stepped outside and my face was freezing the entire time! We took the metro and the bus out to a different city up in the mountains and started snow shoeing from there through the forest. It was so beautiful! Everything was white and looked like a postcard. Snow shoeing is not as hard as I thought it would be, but it definitely was not easy! Ice kept forming in the arch of my foot and freezing making it very painful to walk. Luckily my friend Simon was there to help me get it out! We walked down different paths and ended up in the middle of this huge field with so much fresh powder! It was so much fun to play in! After exploring the woods, we were all freezing so we went and enjoyed an amazing cup of hot chocolate. On our way back, it started to snow really hard! I was so cold! I can't believe this is what I am living in now! But it is so beautiful that it makes it all worth it! :)
