Okay so I know I've been completely rubbish with the blogging lately, apologies for that.

So... where to begin! I've been here for about two and a half months now, it's going crazily quickly. Winter is beginning to set in, pretty much all the leaves have disappeared now and there is snow on the tops of the hills around here. The autumn colours were absolutely beautiful, I went for a couple of walks through the forest and it was so so pretty. The last few days have been very dreary and rainy though, it feels like I'm back in Manchester

I've just realised that I don't seem to be able to write a post without talking about the weather! I guess I am a true English girl... I've been drinking tons of tea lately too, really living out the stereotype. Thanks to Anna I have a new supply of authentic teabags which should last me until Christmas :)

So what else have I been doing... hmm, I seem to have been very busy, despite only having 12 hours of lessons a week! I 'm having to do more lesson prep now as at the start I could do pretty much the same lesson with each class but now that the exams are drawing nearer I'm having to prepare more individual activies for each group. I'm still giving my two private lessons a week too and spent several hours in the last few days proofreading a 50+ page thesis on economics for a friend of a teacher! So I'm now slightly more clued up on sovereign bonds and can tell you a bit about various economic crises.

I've done a bit more sightseeing too, went to Lucerne the other week which was very very pretty (see pic above). A typical Swiss city; on a lake, surrounded by mountains etc. We wanted to go up one of the mountains but public transport was against us that day and alas it didn't happen. Last week I spent an afternoon in Basel and discovered much more of it than I'd seen before. We went up a church tower which has to have THE narrowest spiral staircase in the world. It was a great view from the top though so it was well worth it.

Also went to Interlaken a few weeks ago, during the holidays. I wasn't that impressed with the actual town as it was a bit too touristy for my liking but the scenery was absolutely stunning. We went to Thun first and then drove along the edge of the lake to Interlaken and it was really breathtaking.

That's it for now, I will try and blog more consistently I promise!