Time in Leysin coming to a close

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Last chance for a true travelblog, as I'm returning to the States soon. So it seems like an entry highlighting my 2 months in Switzerland is in order.

It has been amazing to spend time in a quiet, cozy, tight-knit mountain village. It's a place a little separated from the rest of the world, where your main focus is about what is right in front of you, the people, the nature, and you. No politics, no marketing infiltration, no tv, and no pollution, yah. Fresh Air and Sunshine galore.

The sports here are awesome, my job involved running rec activities twice daily: ropes course, whitewater rafting, lots of soccer, hockey, ice skating, BMX and mountain bikes, hot damn. It's gonna be hard returning to a hardworking, indoor lifestyle, because the sporting life feels good my friends.

Via Ferrata

Probably the best day of the summer, I rocked the face of the Tour D'Aï mountaintop even further up in the sky than my village. Clipped to a iron cable with two "lobster-claw" carabiners, I guided myself up the mountain connected to the cable, by climbing up giant monster-sized staples. Sounds crazy I know, but it felt safe, and was more worth it than I could ever have imagined. The crew that went up were myself and the calm and cool Polish Crew: Marlena, Ania and Piotr. Well prepared and always adventurous, they were bomb guides up the face of the rock.

Montreux Live

Spent some time in Montreux, uber famous home of the Montreux Jazz Festival, where "Smoke on the Water" was written in response to a gnarly fire there (thanks Deep Purple). Our school put on a show in an amphitheatre on the banks of Lake Geneva in front of 500 people. Myself and two awesome musicians here in Leysin put on "Blister in the Sun" by Violent Femmes. Got the people clapping and moving, good fun. I had to convince my friend Julie to suck it up and do it, she was freakin out, but we rocked it.

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Photos

Tele-Cabine up to the Berneuse Mountain
A cheesy shot I know

Mountain Flowers
At the base of the Tour D'Aï

Kiss from Nature
A perspective shot on top of the Tour D'Aï

Lifesized Flower
with new friends Piotr and Ania from Poland.

View down from Tour D'Aï
We walked up the length of that chairlift, before we climbed the face of the rock.

Chateau Chillon
The Chillers Castle on Lake Geneva

More!
Fountain in Montreux

Smoke on the Water
Beautiful View from Montreux

Statue of the famous Freddy Mercury
The Famous Limpwristed Singer of Queen

Summer Staff
better than a summer staph

Aliens and Peoples
Notice all the people

Dents-du-midi
The view I was treated to daily. A great source of inspiration every morning; as I would wake up 35 students, I could open their curtains to this view and get them pumped up about their day-to-come

Z'Gadi!
It's me, no doubt.

Colored Waterfalls
Feel Flows. Rhinefalls in northern Switzerland

Luganese Cathedral
Italian part of CH. Super Catholic

Vetruvian Man
or Ganesh, 8 armed beast!

Higher and Higher
Above the Swiss Alps.

Heavy but necessary for the fight
At a 12th century castle in Neuchatel, CH

With EZ in the beautiful Alps
Neuchatel, CH

Pristine Beauty
Swimmin at Lake Neuchatel

Alpenglow
Nightly. Awesome!

As the world turns
The Sun leaves a flicker of its beauty

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Nice photo! Have good trip!