Lausanne

A while back our class took a school trip to Lausanne, a town in the French speaking part of Switzerland.  We took the train for about an hour and than made our way to the new Olympic museum. The town was quite beautiful (forpictures of Lausanne click here) it is in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, therefore having a very different style than the German part. The Olympic museum was quite impressive. Out side were various statues, one of which was the world pole-vaulting record. I am pretty sure it was taller than my house. My favorite was a moving statue of a six-pack. When you least expected it the abs would break apart and rotate. The whole museum was in English or French, which was quite easy for me, but less so for the rest of my class. It consisted of three floors: the first told about the history of the Olympics (including locations, reasons, historical records, and all of the torches), the second was devoted to the evolution of clothing throughout the Olympics (I saw Michael Phelps’s Pants!!!), the third and final floor consisted of Olympic related games that you could play (mind and balance and such) and how the athletes prepare for and during the games (it involves lots of eating sleeping and training). After exploring the museum we had free time in the city, which meant playing on the various playgrounds we found as we walked throughout town. It was quite fun.