Bridges

This might be a bit of a short post, I'm afraid. We left at 10:00am this morning to Valle Verazsca (sp?). I thought we were leaving at 9:30am, so I was rather early for the actual departure, but that's all right. So we drove about 90 minutes and we had lunch near a little stream/river. Then we walked to an enormous glacial waterfall, where a bunch of people (myself not included) jumped into the pool at the bottom. This is glacial run-off people, you really can't expect me to jump into something that freezing. No thank you. So that was pretty cool. Then we drove back to Valle, where there's a really cool stone bridge that people like to jump off. But no one was allowed to jump off of that today because a kid broke his back last year and had to be in a wheelchair for three months... Instead people jumped off of an enormous rock. I didn't jump in there either. The weather was particularly hot, so I didn't have any real motivation to jump into super-cold water. But lots of other people did, and it was fun. Everyone was cheering everyone jumping in on. Even the dozens of other tourists and like the entire village. At the end there was one girl who was taking forever to jump in and I was afraid the Swiss were going to kick her out of the country, since some of them starting booing. But then they cheered when she did finally jump in. After that we drove back to Lugano and there was an All-Student BBQ this evening, where all the grades mingled. Well, not really, they were just all present.

I start classes tomorrow morning; my first of the day is at 8:30am and is German100. I'm looking forward to classes starting and sort of getting into some sort of routine. I'm still trying to figure out my cellphone. Mom, Mo, any tips? I miss you all!