Carnival!!

So Sunday was carnival in Switzerland and truth be told it was a lot of fun. I guess this is like their Mardi Gras celebration but more towards a family atmosphere. A couple things did stick out, and I know this is a carnival in a small town however these critiques I think are warranted.

1- Instead of thorwing beads, candy, plastic cups, moon pies etc... ( you know stuff people would actually enjoy to catch) they throw confetti here. Just plain old punched out pieces of what looked like construction paper. I thought it was wierd that a country so proud of their enviromental record would let tons and tons of paper just be tossed into the streets for fun. One of the german girls I was watching the parade with commented that she was at a carnival in Cologne and they where throwing chocolate, beads and other cool stuff. But whatever, everyone was having fun.

2- Young children are actually encourgaged to throw confetti at the people in the parade. So as the people in the parade are marching they are being pelted with vast amounts of confetti. I commented that it must be insansely difficult to play and instrument while being showered with confetti. I guess thats what you get when you don't throw candy and other cool stuff at the parade. After the parade the adults would throw confetti at each other. As we are walking back to the dorm we are getting confetti thrown into our faces and backs at almost point blank range, including one of the girls getting a considerable amount of confetti thrown into her mouth. It was fun for the first 2 times it happend then it just got annoying, like really annoying. The parade was alright but instead of throwing confetti, I would suggest they throw these instead:
















That would be awesome.

3- Almost everyone in the parade wore masks similar to the one in the pic above. They actually looked really cool.

On a completely different note the dryers here suck really really bad. I had a load dry for an hour and 20 minutes and the clothes were still wet, not damp, but almost like they were never in the damn thing. So I had to finish them off on the radiator heater in my room. This is one instance where I will be violently patriotic and state that American clothes dryers absolutely blow Switzerlands off the planet. Okay small rant over.


All in all not a bad day. Had a lot of fun hanging out with everyone enjoying the days festivities. I start school tomorrow so the blog will probably be updated once or twice a week. Going to suck going back to school, but at least I don't have any Friday classes.