Europe Update! 6/18 – 6/22 The Final Days, Zürich, and Flying Home This is the last one folks! After spamming everyone with Europe pictures over the course of summer I’m finally wrapping it up since I managed to slack enough that it’s the new school year. I don’t have many pictures from our final few days, I guess I was just so caught up in soaking everything up before I had to leave. So as a result I’ll keep it short and sweet! After leaving Aunt Gina and Uncle Steve back in Italy (and the bottom of my wine box giving out and shattering my bottles on the Vicenza sidewalk), my friends and I mainly just hung around Bluche. Everyone was just relaxing and I think soaking up the final few days of the program. I myself spent a lot of time on the windowsill in my friends’ room just chatting and soaking up the sight of the beautiful mountains. Over the next few days we went back up the funicular to Crans-Montana where I made sure to buy plenty of chocolate, and just enjoy the tiny town. The next afternoon we had our final kitchen day were we made cold pea soup, sushi, desserts galore, and a million other things I can’t quite remember because I didn’t work on those particular dishes. Getting to learn to roll sushi was pretty cool though! After lunch Fern and I squeezed one more ride up to Crans-Montana where we rented a paddleboat and paddled around the lake for a while. I kept us steady (thanks dad for the boating skills) and Fern played photographer. We reluctantly descended down the mountain only to be caught up in the frenzy of prepping for the big farewell dinner! Every dressed up their best, we took group photos, and ate an amazing dinner of fondue where the chefs melted the cheese off the wheel to order. I must have gone through like a million lactase pills though. After the official celebration was over and we bid farewell to some of our group members who were headed to catch late-night flights, the rest of the program congregated in the nearby flower field for one last hurrah. The next morning everyone parted ways and I traveled to Zürich with a few program mates where we explored a bit of the downtown scene, grabbed some authentic vodka pasta, and I’m just drooling thinking about it, and stumbled down it’s medieval streets to happen upon the local police band. We stayed for a few numbers before picking up a bottle of rose and heading back to the hotel. We had gotten lucky and my friend and I spent our last night in Europe in an upgraded hotel suite in bathrobes and sipping wine while trying to figure out what time was best to hit the airport. Eventually it was time to return home and so we went our separate ways. A plane ride and 5 movies later I was back home! To say this trip changed my life would be ironic, but also completely true. I got to experience so many things, go so many places, and meet so many people, and really I found out more about myself along the way. No one comes back from studying abroad and says they wished they hadn’t done it, and it’s true!
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