22.8.15

Today I made baked French Toast for my host family in the morning. It is one of my favorite American breakfast foods. Later I took the train to Solothurn to look around and maybe buy s pair of shoes. On the train I was confronted with my first awkward guy situation. Two guys asked to sit across from me and I gave the usually nod, thinking it would be the usual look out the window and not say one word I had gotten used to. He first held out his hand for me to shake, and then kissed me on each check like close friends do here, not complete strangers. Then enough they started talking to me and by the end of the ride were asking things like where I was going, my phone number, and if I was meeting a friend. I managed to say that I was meeting a friend (a lie, but it made me feel safer), I did not yet have a Swiss telephone (also a lie, but I do not give my number out to random people), I now know how to safely avoid weird conversations with sketchy train people. Finally my stop arrived and I gladly exited the train. I walked through the different streets and appreciated the cobblestone. Once I had gone into about half the shops, found a style of shoe that I liked, and thoroughly enjoyed the view I headed back to the house. In the evening Barbara and I took the train to Basel and saw the play 'The Lion King' put on by the London cast. It was my third time seeing the play and every time blows me away. Basel also was amazing, we did not walk around much, but from what I saw it is a very large city. All of the towns here are much, much bigger than they would be in the USA. Basel is a town of less than 200,000 and yet it seems to be bigger than Portland (well, not sky scraper wise). We arrived back in Grenchen at 00:11 and boy, did I sleep! Bellow is the pair of shoes I liked, tell me if you like them, please also comment on what you want to hear about in my blog because I have less day to day things to talk about now, are there any specific questions you have?