I just got home from our 
pre-game morning practice, and I have about 4 hours until I head back to the gym for tonight's match. We play against Volero again, (we lost 1-3 last time in Zurich, and it's a best of 3 match series) but this time we're at home, which will hopefully give us some sort of advantage. Playing on the same court as Robyn ah-Mow was unreal, but I could definitely see why she is a volleyball legend. She is super super competitive, and if the ball is within 5 feet of her, it'll never go down!
pre-game morning practice, and I have about 4 hours until I head back to the gym for tonight's match. We play against Volero again, (we lost 1-3 last time in Zurich, and it's a best of 3 match series) but this time we're at home, which will hopefully give us some sort of advantage. Playing on the same court as Robyn ah-Mow was unreal, but I could definitely see why she is a volleyball legend. She is super super competitive, and if the ball is within 5 feet of her, it'll never go down!After my last post, I spent the weekend in Loeche-les-Bains at the chalet of my teammate Kristel. She brought another friend up, and we met her brother there with his 2 friends. The group was pretty funny, because every person there spoke at least 2 languages, but not always the same ones. 3 of us spoke only French and English, 1 spoke only German and French, 1 spoke German and English, and 1 spoke German, French, and English. The dinner conversations were hilarious as we tried to translate between all 3 languages!
At the chatet I tried raclette for the first time.. For any of you who don't kno
w, raclette is basically a meal of cheese and potatoes (I'm ok with that!!) but it's special because each person melts their own cheese prior to putting it on the potatoes. It was really really good, and I think that the Swiss are on to something by openly accepting the custom of eating melted cheese as a meal!
w, raclette is basically a meal of cheese and potatoes (I'm ok with that!!) but it's special because each person melts their own cheese prior to putting it on the potatoes. It was really really good, and I think that the Swiss are on to something by openly accepting the custom of eating melted cheese as a meal!The next day we had plans to go skiing (or if you're me, plans to sit in the lodge reading all day out of fear that you might kill yourself or someone else if you strap on skis or a snowboard), but we ended up waking up late and not wanting to pay for a lift ticket for only a few hours. This meant that I would not be hanging out by myself all day, so I was happy! We decided to go sledding instead, and spent the afternoon with a group of kids (probably under the age of 12) who had the same idea as us...
Monday night one of the boys convinced us that we should go down to "Tom's," the local bar. As I walked in, I w
as greeted by a sign that read "Tom's Saloon, Western Bar," and I knew it was going to be a crazy place! The walls were decorated in the style of John Wayne movies, and even the doors between rooms were those kind that people walk out of in the movies when they have to duel on the abandoned street with tumbleweeds. So there I was, sitting in a John Wayne movie, with my tri-lingual friends, and Gangsta's Paradise came on the radio. It was too much!
as greeted by a sign that read "Tom's Saloon, Western Bar," and I knew it was going to be a crazy place! The walls were decorated in the style of John Wayne movies, and even the doors between rooms were those kind that people walk out of in the movies when they have to duel on the abandoned street with tumbleweeds. So there I was, sitting in a John Wayne movie, with my tri-lingual friends, and Gangsta's Paradise came on the radio. It was too much! On Tuesday the ski runs were closed due to heavy snow and risks of avalanches.. So our group packed up the car and headed to the thermal baths, where we spent the morning lounging in huge pools with seemingly every other person in Loeche. They also had an area of waterslides, etc for the kids, but of course our group jumped at the idea of waterslides! We had a great afternoon and headed back towards Lausanne for practice that evening.
On Wednesday morning, 3 friends from the US arrived to spend some time in Switzerland. My friends Kevin and Brett from Napa and their friend Morgan are on a Euro-trip, and randomly I had talked to one of the boys prior to their departure at the end of January, so they managed to make it to Cheseaux for a couple days.
After lounging on Wednesday, we decided to go to Chateau-de-Chillon for a tourist
day on Thursday. The Chateau is one of the most famous in Switzerland, due to it's picturesque location on the shores of Lake Geneva. We had an amazing time touring the Chateau, and by the time we left, the morning snow clouds had disappeared and we had an amazing blue-sky afternoon to enjoy! After my practice that night, we made fondue and declared it a perfect day in Switzerland!
day on Thursday. The Chateau is one of the most famous in Switzerland, due to it's picturesque location on the shores of Lake Geneva. We had an amazing time touring the Chateau, and by the time we left, the morning snow clouds had disappeared and we had an amazing blue-sky afternoon to enjoy! After my practice that night, we made fondue and declared it a perfect day in Switzerland!Yesterday I took them to Les Paccots, where Louis had taken me snowshoeing during my first few weeks here. I am definitely not as expert as Louis when it comes to the trails there, but we made it pretty far and ended up at an amazing lookout where the boys had a snowball fight as Morgan and I tried to stay out of the crossfire.
The Americans took off early this morning to continue their travels in Italy, but it was definitely nice to have some visitors for a few days!
I'm off to take a pre-game nap, but I hope all is well with everyone and I hope to talk to you soon!
Love,
Anna
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