Doing some tourist-y things :)

Hi! It's Monday, and what they here call "Lundi Jeune", which is a public holiday in most of "Suisse Romande" (the French-speaking part of Switzerland), including in the two cities Lausanne and Geneva. Therefore my classes don't start until tomorrow and my boyfriend who has been here visiting me since Thursday gets to stay a whole other day before he leaves in the morning.

It's been such a nice weekend here, the weather has been really nice even though the temperatures for the most part now stay below 20 degrees. I am becoming a pro at taking the bus and metro round the city, getting less and less confused every day, for example managing to locate and then relocate the next day the biggest shopping centre in town (at least the biggest I've found); the "Metropole", which lies in between the metro stop "Riponne-Maurice-Bejart" and the bus stop "Pont Chauderon".

We've done some good sightseeing this weekend as well, to show off the beautiful town I have moved to. The two highlights I guess are the area by the lake "Ouchy" (end of metro line 2), and the Sauvabelin Tower right next to where I live. Here are some photos I've taken on our excursions to give you an idea of why it's so nice here :)

I love how from many parts of the city if you just look down the street you see the beautiful view of the mountains and the lake, just peaking in from between the buildings. This is the bus stop at Pont Chauderon.

 The view from what I call the "Lake campus" of UNIL, aka Dorigny, which is right on the lake and has a beautiful view of the already snow-covered mountain tops of the alps. This was taken thursday 13/09.

 From the docks at Ouchy on Friday....

And these are from Saturday when we walked up into the Parc Sauvabelin right next to where I live to the very cool tower there...

Sauvabelin tower

Toward Geneva

I'm officially horrible at placing pictures on my blog, they seem to go all over the place so this will just have to do. Also, I think I should share some of my awesome cooking skill that has been blossoming the past week or so--- just look at the salad I made on Wednesday:

= Rucola salad, 1 tomato, 50g pasta, 200g minced chicken meat, 1 avocado. YUM.

After this we've made some good food too, Thursday we fried chicken breasts and ate them with pasta and a simple salad. Friday we bought a pizza which we spruced up a little with ham and some good Swiss sausage. We made Mexican chicken wraps on Saturday, and then some good old pasta carbonara yesterday (from scratch of course :D ). 

The highlight of the culinary week however came yesterday when we decided to bake cinnamon rolls, which were absolutely delicious, and guess what? There are still some left in a box in the kitchen!! I think I may go have one in a little while! 

So now I've updated you on the goings-on here, tomorrow is the start of classes so I'll definitely get back to you on how that goes :)