Snowboarding/Christmas

I know its been awhile. But I actually havent done much other than snowboard lately. I had 2 days of lessons last week. That helped alot. Ive got it down pretty good now, I want to try the halfpipe at some point. Today I did one of the hardest runs in Flims/laax twice with my hostparents. Somebody died on it already this season, and today somebody was hurt pretty bad on it. I think Ive gone 16 times now- not bad. Christmas was good. On christmas eve we went to Sedrun(deeper in the alps) to my hostmoms mothers house. So I met alot of my hostmoms family, then after dinner we went to mass. It was all in romansh- including a male choir. Then yesterday we went to Luzern, to my hostdads brothers house. It was good, I met some of my hostdads family. We had meat fondue, with horse meat- it tasted good. I got some pictures from Crap Sogn Gion(one of the more popular ski areas), but ill try to get some better ones with me in them. And the tree, yes its real, and yes those are real candles.

Zermatt Rotary Gathering

All the rotary exchange students in Switzerland(like 120 or so) went to Zermatt for the weekend. It was great, everybody had a lot of fun. Most of saturday was spent getting to zermatt. It took me about 8 hours to get there. After that we had free time, and then went to a museum an hour before dinner. We had fondue(my first time). I thought it was pretty good. We slept on saturday in groups in different hotels, depending on whether you chose to go skiing snowboarding or "hiking". The group of hikers I was with got a 4 star hotel--pretty cool, but one group of unfortunates got a hostel. Sunday we took the lifts up to the little matterhorn-almost 13000 feet(air was rather thin). We didnt actually go hiking, but there was an ice palace in the glacier and some great views of the mountains. That was pretty much it. It was just awesome to be with the other exchange students. The pics: We had a view of the matterhorn from our balcony actually. Then the palace and the peak of the mountain we were on(you can probably tell that it was cold and windy).