Today went with some of the Usi students to visit Locarno. Some of us went to the top of the Madonna del Sasso (the sanctuary of the Madonna) while other people went ice skating. We took a cable car up to the top of the mountain and then spent a few hours up there looking around before we headed down and back home to Lugano. [View Full Entry]

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The plane ride was quite long (8 hours) and I was worried because I don’t sleep well on planes but with a plane full of students it wasn’t bad at all because we just sat around and talked and watched movies the whole time- barely anyone slept on the plane (which made it for a rough first 48 hours). When we arrived in Zurich it was beautiful. The weather was cold but not too bad. (I attached a picture of the Alps that I took from the bus ride) We took a 3 hour bus ride from Zurich to Lugano [View Full Entry]

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