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Switzerland is great!

Hey. I have not blogged in a while, so alot has happened.
About 2 weeks ago i graduated from school. I work at the corps full time and now im in Switzerland at the Catherine program training in Basel, well let me tell you something, this place is amazing. The old town in Basel could allmost compete with Tallinns Old City. The people are very nice.
We are staing at the Training college, witch is an amazing new building.
The system of trams and shops here is very different and interesting.
If you want to get on a tram or get off (same for the buss) you have tyo push the button on the tram or the bus. All the shops close early. around 18:30, so basically you have to get all your food and drinks before that. All the restaurants close early, besides the expensive ones in old city.
You know we have rimi in Estonia right?
Well, here in Basel we have Migros!!! If Migros has only one M then it is a grossery store, if it has two M-s (MM) than it also has clothes etc, if it is 3 M-s (MMM) then it has electronics as well.
Everything is actually quite expensive here. The weather is hot, it stays in between 27-30 degrees above celsius. So we enjoy a nice weather here while people have rain and cold weather in Estonia!
Oh, as you know that they have the European Football Cup game here in Basel, Russia lost to Spain...so...
Me and Sirje live on the 4th floor, every morning we wake up because of the loud noise made by a church bell.
The training college is quite close to a park where you can relax and also swim in a pool! Yes, thats right! A pool in a normal city park.
Basel has many ethnicities, all that you can think of. I havent met many blond girls here, for some reason they have many brunettes here...>)
They speak 2 languages here, French and German and it is because Basel is on the border of France and Germany.
The Swiss german is very different from the normal german, once you hear it, youll know the difference!

About our Cathrene program group. We have people from Germany, France, Ukraine, Russia, Finland, Estonia, Switzerland, Check Republic and Holland. It is very nice to hear different languages and seeing new cultures and habits of other countries.
Im doing good so far with meeting the people, im the youngest one here.
Well, it is getting late allmost 23:30.
Estonian group is on kitchen duty tommorow, so, have to go to bed.
I miss you all: Tim, Evelyn, Snucky, Chris, Michael, Kristi, Keit, Mom, Dad, Elizabeth, Peter (not really), Old Town, all the youth of kopli corps, i miss my mp3 player as well..
God bless you all, and see you in 2 days, please pray for Sirje, as she is going thrue a hard time with allergies against Swiss cheese she never knew before :)


Love you all alot
Kisses and hugs!
God bless
And Chris once im back, we have to finish the Heroes game


all the pictures above are of places we have been to!

Miss Teen South Carolina

"Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?"

OK, before i give you her answer, what do you think it will be like? She looks pretty, but does she have the brains for this question?

OK, i know this whole Miss Teen "i personally believe" thing is old, but i just cant leave it out of my blog.

So what did she say? Her answer to this question was ( you better appreciate it, it took me a while to understand what she said, so i could write it on my blog)....

" I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some ... people out there in our nation don't have maps, and, uh, i believe that our education like such as South Africa and, uh, the Iraq everywhere like, such as and ...I believe that they should, our education over here in the US, er, should help the US ,er should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future, for our children"

OK, now who could translate for me, what she had just said?? The Iraq? South Africa, Asian countries, what do these countries have to do with the American education???

And whats up with the US Americans?? who are the US Americans...I bet Mexicans call themselves US Mexicans or US Latinos, or is there another option of UK Americans, EU Americans.

Why would Asian countries need help with education. Japan has a far out technology and the system of education is well built up, India's education is majoring in IT, people in India are extremely smart.

And maps are not the reason why some Americans cant locate US on a world map, i don't know how well they teach Geography in American schools, but i bet that they have maps in the school books.

I don't know, i would like to get some feedback on what you think is really the reason, and what do you think about the answer of miss Teen South Carolina.

Thank you!

The Myth!!!

Allmost a year ago, i accidentally switched on a russian channel, that was showing a movie called " The Myth" .

Chan stars as a character named after himself, in this case Dr. Jack Chan, an archaeologist plagued by chronic dreams about a Qin era general pledged to protect a Korean princess being sent to the Qin Emperor as a concubine. His dreams have no relationship to his everyday life and yet Jack can’t shake the feeling that they mean something deeper and has grown obsessed with them, so much so that his girlfriend left him when he started calling out the dream princess’ name in the night. When his long time friend William asks him to help research ancient rumors and legends dealing with gravity defying acts. Chan is swept into a series of events(fight in a holy temple, he allmost drowns, he has to run away from the police in an indian city etc)Chan also stars as General Meng Yi, the figure in his dreams. Meng is a loyal soldier who falls in love with the woman he is pledged to protect and deliver. Meng never crosses any lines with the princess but he falls deeply in love and pledges himself to her, setting up a story of unrequited love leading to tragedy.

The movie ends quite sadly, i was shocked when the movie ended, im not goign to spoil the end for you though!

Here are the Stars of this movie:

Kim-Hee Sun (Korea)
Jackie Chan (China)