August 29
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tags: picture blog
offline life · FAVICON Contest
This is my Aunt’s FIRST time in America! She came here because her son’s wedding is next month and she wanted to be there. Unfortunately my other cousins couldn’t make it, but I’m glad my aunt came anyway :) She came from Lebanon so that’s a longs way from here!
This woman’s plane was coming in at 2 PM and we were all lounging around like we’re in Miami. I was the only one concerned with time. Maybe that’s because the last 2 times I came in from international arrivals I was greeted by DUST.
Even if we flew by telepathy we wouldn’t get there in time.
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August 15
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tags: picture blog
· FAVICON Contest
Went shopping for Mel today! Got her some cute things :) Check them out.
Bow ring from Forever 21.
Boots by American Eagle and top from Forever 21.
A cute white cardigan with a floral garden top (both from H&M).
A dark grey cardigan from H&M.
Well, I have 30 minutes til I eat and I’m actually pretty beat up today for some reason. OH and boy do I have a huge rant blog coming up next. YOU WILL NOT BELIEVEEE what has been happening with my neighbors. They want me to hang out with a 7 year old? Honestly, it needs to stop. Will elaborate later.
July 22
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tags: picture blog
· FAVICON Contest
These were too funny not to post. Especially the first one since I’m from Michigan (REPRESENT!!). I found these on my friends facebook so no I did not make these. I mean do you really think I’d use the typeface IMPACT with a 3px black border? Please child.
June 25
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tags: picture blog
offline life · FAVICON Contest
Living in Switzerland at first was pretty hectic. The timezone difference from my friends, the absence of my friends, and the reliance of trains…everything kinda got to me.
I haven’t been blogging much because life here is pretty demanding. My uncle’s wife came up to my room while me and Lisa were relaxing and pretty much snapped at us telling us OH WHY DO YOU THINK WE BROUGHT YOU HERE, YOU GUYS ARE BEING LAZY YOU NEED TO HELP OUT, etc. etc. LOOOL @ the snappage right? I was like woahhh is this lady giving us attitude outta nowhere? I aint havin this. I’m a damn american gimmie a twix bar and lemme have a minute.
Our ‘vacation’ pretty much sucked the following days but it’s only been getting better recently. We had a better understanding with our uncle and his wife so now everything is cool. I mean the best part of this trip was finding the H&M downtown. Lisa and I spent a good portion of our day rejoicing at finding cute clothes for less than $500. Everything here is expensive as hell (and equally just as ugly..it’s like the more expensive, the more it looked like a christmas sweater) so it’s nice to see some brandnames I know that aren’t trying to get me to spend 100 dollars on a pair of plastic shoes.
I bought a pair of “Jeggings” (LOL yes they were called jeggings…jeans+leggings?) for $30 CFH….CHF something like that at this place called ‘Tally’. It’s not bad actually, prices are pretty good too. EVERYONE here wears skinny jeans and ballet flats. So I’m guessing this is the best place to buy them at ;)
The inside of the jeans was pretty hilarious to me.
Then I bought a cute belt for 7 F (the american dollar is worth a tiny bit more here but it’s kinda the same) and a shirt for 5! Wooo for soldes!! (sales)
Inside the countryside…
Lisa and I then went downtown and explored.
You know when she wasn’t throwing whole cookies to the birds at the station, we had fun. Oh yeah so normal people would give the birds crumbs seeing as they are
SMALL birds and not humans at a baseball game. But no Lisa? She gave the damn animals the whole cookie and then like the idiots that they are the birds fought over it and one of the smallest birds somehow miraculously got a hold of the 10 pound cookie and flew away, before the cookie flew out of his mouth and landed on the train tracks.
Downtown is absolutely BEAUTIFUL and honestly if I could live here (with my friends and family) I would move in a heartbeat. Of course we would have to win the lottery of 50 million dollars to cover one week of living costs but hey IT IS WORTH IT! :)
June 16
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tags: picture blog
· FAVICON Contest
Coming from Germany to Switzerland is a big difference.
We made a few friends yesterday that even spoke arabic, but this french language thing is still getting me. I’m overcoming it though, since I’ve been told mostly everyone here speaks english. At least as far as they would LIKE me to know…hmm…so I guess all the guys I’ve been hitting on weren’t looking at me for nothing eh? HAHHAA.
We went downtown, it was fun to see everything and hear all that french. Again, every single guy that was down there was good looking. I guess swiss people just have this gene the Americans missed?
United Nations.
Lisa’s idea of a spontaneous picture. This is the neighborhood where we’re saying.
Downtown!
Near Jeu D’eau. I realllllly wanted to go through the water but it was on the other side :(
This lady was at least 1000 years old, and she’s riding around on her little motorcycle like a pro. Damn grandma.
Where my Aunt works :) She said she’s gonna try to get us in as a visitor to check it out. Ahhh how sweeeeet!
I’m bad at sorting these on organization, I know. Look I just went from the United Nations to a lake. I suck at this hahaha.
The best friends in the world. (ARE IN AMERICA)
I went grocery shopping yesterday and you know what I realized? Switzerland doesn’t believe in carrying Peanut Butter, and that’s just kind of wrong. How can you have a grocery store without peanut butter? How the hell do I make PB&J sandwiches? If this is the Swiss’s idea of a joke well then April Fools, and ho ho ho for the next 3 months. They got me.
They also believe to make up for the peanut butter, that it’s necessary to overprice everything in their stores. I swear this regular small bag of chips was like 2 dollars. In America you can buy the plant that manufactures it for the same price.
I’m not saying it’s outrageously priced, but when I’m looking at a small jar of strawberry jam for 5 dollars, I think even Bill Gates would be second guessing where to spend all his billions. For the stores and their inventory, America wins by a freakin’ landslide. I don’t care what anyone says, I am proud of our country regardless of how sold out and overexposed, slutty it’s become. If America can provide me with Strawberry jam AND peanut butter for less than 50 dollars, I can carry the dead baggage of everything else it comes with.
May 20
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tags: offline life
picture blog · FAVICON Contest
Living right across the street from an ice cream man has its pros and cons. The cons slightly outweigh the pros by a rainfall of craters. Just estimating.
We live on the worst block in the world. Literally, we should be in a book for this. Let me give you a visualization:
House 1: I am thoroughly convinced this house has been on fire more times than Lisa takes a shower. It’s not that often but trust me, it’s unusual. The ambulance is at our block so much because of this after they ‘save’ lives by throwing a bucket of water over a plant, they come over my house and we make smores.
House 2: If you notice the highschool attendance rate is down, just check this house’s front porch because all those missing students will be there.
House 3: Our infamous neighbors. Their front yard is like their golden child, a fortress of death if you will. Once time a child riding a tricycle fell off his bike and landed on their front yard, and he got yelled at. He was never the same ever again.
House 4: Mine. Would I smack talk my own house? Hell naw.
House 5: Even worst than the parents of their front yard, our right side neighbors are like a boom box that doesn’t have an off switch. Besides being the pit stop for every cop in the country, this house makes sure we never any get sleep by running around like zombie chickens and screaming about things like Justin Bieber. Also, I made little dots to represent all the damn people in that house. One day there’s 1 kid, the next day there are like 50 million. THEY ARE LIKE BACTERIA. They just multiply and you see a new person everyday then the time next you see them is a year later, but with a beard.
House 6: Where the hell do I begin? These people are absolutely crazy. This family lets their little kids run outside and wander the streets – they aren’t really dora explorer here. On top of that, these little old ladies are psycho drivers and literally blast out of their driveway like they’re strapped to a rocketship. Nasa should learn a thing or two here and advance their systems.
House 7: I’m pretty sure these people don’t have a living room because they do EVERYTHING outside on their porch. I think I’m apart of their family now because I’ve witnessed birthday parties, barbeques, marriages, all on their porch. It’s also well lit like it’s a hollywood stage so that kinda helps too.
House 8: If you are late for school or your own wedding, do NOT attempt to leave if you see these people start up their car. They will pretty much be there for 30 minutes just reversing out of their driveway and switching cars back and forth.
House 9: If I could demolish one house on this street or trade it in for a bag of peanuts, this is the house I would choose. See that big orange blob? That is one of our neighbors car. He drives this huge freakin orange van that looks like the mystery van that scooby doo’s gang drives except it’s a lot uglier and Daphne wouldn’t be caught dead driving in it. He has this claim on his parking spot like he has it licensed in his name and the street is engraved under where he parks. If we park in that spot he comes and KNOCKS on our door and asks us to move our car. LOL WTH?! Who does this? Is this guy serious? He needs a REALITY CHECK.
Also, this is the hot spot for Mr Ice cream man, who will back out of his driveway slowly and then 5 seconds later a hoard of kids will run towards it like a scene from Indiana Jones screaming,
EYE SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EYE SCRAM!!!!!
House 10: Normal people, what a shocker.
There you have it. he he hehehehehe.
