Time in Leysin coming to a close

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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