Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Switzerland

In the summer of 2001, Jeff and I took a romantic weekend trip to Interlaken, Switzerland. We were living in Pordenone, Italy at the time so it was only a train ride away. We stayed in a youth hostel with breakfast included, which was a hunk of bread and some cheese. The very expensive fondu dinner made up for it.

I have been thinking of this trip a lot lately. Mainly because I am taking a Western Civs class and we are reading about Calvanism's origins in Switzerland. This brings back to me memories of the play we saw on our romantic weekend getaway.

The play was about William Tell. Maybe you have heard of him, he shot the apple of his son's head with an arrow. The play was in German, they did however, provide us with an English translation to read. The setting of this play is amazing. The audience's seats are built up and facing the side of a mountain.

This play has been being performed in Interlaken every summer for more than 200 years. There is a cast of more than 250 towns people. But, most importantly now that I am taking the class and reading about the history of this time period, I am reading about the leaders and not about the people. I was given such a gift to be able to see history from another perspective. When the leaders and the religions are changed and am thinking to myself about how this effects the average person, the mother, the child. We read about the leaders who changed the world, I envision how this impacts the people. This being the reason I have been reading chapter 1 for three weeks now.

I have a photo album of our adventures in Interlaken on the left. I loved it there. One of my favorite places. Very expensive, but incredibly beautiful. Hope you get the chance to see it.

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