View from an Alp too

Rebekka that is.

my crime?

I cleaned her room !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

She hates me doing it, but it was calling to me

I pulled out all from under the bed, and the bed, cleaned the walls, cleaned the floor, filled a garbage sack, tossed all the clothes in the laundry, and rearranged the furniture, so the bed is under the window now and there is more space to store stuff and dance.

I hope she is pleased...........

apparently there are proven similarities between teenagers and cats:

Cats and teenagers can sleep for hours on end, only surfacing to eat or use the toilet.
Cats and teenagers can lie on the sofa seemingly motionless for hours.
Both eat odd things at odd hours.
Both stay out all night if allowed to.
Cats are obsessed with themselves and their appearance, as are teenagers
Neither cats nor teenagers turn their heads when you call them by name.
A cat can appear calm and approachable on the outside, but approach it incorrectly and it will strike in an instance. Teenagers......

Rebekka has just left for camp. She will be back in 2 weeks.

this means one less person hogging the bathroom, one less person hogging the television, and more food in the cupboard for longer

Plus fewer arguments. It is like a holiday for me too

There is a case in the news here at the moment about a group of Swiss teenagers, on a school trip to Münich, who went out at night, had a few drinks, smoked some pot, and then started attacking random strangers just for the fun of it. One 46 year old businessman was attacked so badly, that he is now in intensive care. He was walking back to his hotel at about 11:30, when he was attacked from behind by a group of youths, who then kicked him and stamped on his face so brutally that he suffered broken bones, loss of memory, whiplash, and will probably loose the sight in one eye.
3 are in custody and are expected to get long sentences, as they should.
They have shown no remorse!

Germans can't believe Swiss kids would do this, but unfortunately it is becoming a common occurence here. Kids attack strangers, young or old, for no reason other than they are usually stoned and bored.
The police have now started releasing security camera footage to catch them, which is working in most cases.

I mentioned this to my daughter, who is the same age as these young people that nearly killed the guy. She doesn't understand it either.

When I was younger, we used to go Youth hostelling - a lot. A whole group of young people going off most weekends to the hills, and staying in youth hostels. Always with a pub nearby, but of course that was not the attraction

Anyway, one time we went to a Youth Hostel in the Welsh borders somewhere, and it was a castle. When we got there we were told it was haunted ( no 1), and offered a tour to hear about the ghosts.
I did not do the tour, cos I was not keen on being spooked.

That night in the girls dorm, I was lieing in my top bunk, and for some reason woke up. I looked across the room and saw a figure standing by another bunk. A man with fair hair to his shoulders, and a beard, also fair, or ginger. He looked like a Cavalier. However, I thought it was a friend also on the weekend, so I spoke to him. "What are you doing Dave?" and he disappeared.

Now this did make me a bit nervous, but only a bit, I did not really feel scared.
The next morning, Jacqui, my friend who had been sleeping in that bunk, said that she had felt like there was a presence by her bed all night. That was before I had said anything about seeing a person by her bed.
And no she had not done the ghost tour either.

so Number 1 and number 2 are true, and number 3 is false. Cos to be honest, I also have heard spooky drumming at dusk from a cemetary, so there is no way I will go to a sceance, no idea what might materialise!!!

Congrats to those 2 of you who guessed number 3

I know I am late too with the captains challenge, but wanted to join in the fun.
So which one is the lie?

1. I once slept in a castle that was reputed to be haunted.

2. I saw a ghost in the castle that was reputed to be haunted.

3. I attended a Seance once, but apart from making me feel nervous, nothing materialised.

school is coming to an end this week and for Rebekka today was her "Abschlussfeier" again. We went through this a year ago, and that time she got a prize for the best diploma in her class. This year she told me that was not possible as she had only done the classes she needed for her Gymi, and not all the classes to get her average up.
So that was okay, I hadn't expected it last year, so that had been a lovely surprise.
However, the girl who did get the best marks, was the one person my daughter cannot stand in the class. A girl, who actually I feel quite sorry for, as she studies all the time, can only watch TV at the weekend, and has no friends or social life. Her Mum pushes her, and all work, no play may get her top marks, but makes her a dull girl with no friends.
Anyway, my daugher was really upset to have been beaten by her, especially when she discovered that the points difference between them is 0.1.
So she was actually in tears after, and as a consequence is fired up to do well at Gymi. This other girl is the only other one who passed the entrance test from their class, and they will be doing exactly the same lessons.
Rebekka is determined to do better than her, which is good for me, cos that is a good incentive to study. Plus she does not want to have to repeat a year, as it is one repeat only there, the 2nd time you are out.

She also emailed her old school this evening to query two of her exam results, as she feels they are too low.

and now she is out, they are all partying from 9pm to who knows when tomorrow morning. I have to trust she will be okay.
My Mum would never have let me do that, times change so much.

the Bruce Springsteen concert last night was fantastic. It was held at Stadt de Suisse which is a football stadium. They cover the grass with boards and stuff for the concert goers, and it was packed to the hilt. We had seats very close to the stage, a bit too close really, as we could not see the whole stage cos of the angle.
But we could see Bruce, and how he worked the crowd. The people standing at the front must have been in their element, he was right in among them, more than once.

he has amazing energy, and was leaping around all over. The audience were organised and had banners with song titles on, which he collected off them, and then sang some of the songs that were on them.
They did 3 hours with no back up act, and it was energizing for us all.

Of course, today I am dead, but tonight I will for sure have an early night

At work we recently launched a new initiative to improve the health and energy levels of our employees. We had to fill in a quesitonnaire, and one of the tick boxes was next to:

 Meine Energie reicht gerade für einen Arbeitstag

So i ticked that thinking it meant I had enough energy for a whole working day. Apparently though, reading the results, I was the only one who ticked that, and the gerade bit means that my energy only just is enough for the day.
Antlady can perhaps confirm this.

anyway, I obviously misunderstood the question, but thinking about it, maybe I was not so far off the mark. Some days it is quite difficult to keep the energy levels up, and then do stuff in the evening as well. Yesterday the afternoon was tough, I could have used a power nap. Could be I had not fully recovered from the Paris trip last week.

And last night we had a few people round for English conversation evening, and I drank too much red wine, so had one of those sleeps where you totally crash out for about 4 hours, then wake dehydrated and hot, and never really get back to sleep again

So today might be another day with energy lows

and tonight, I am going to the Bruce Springsteen concert, and as tomorrow is the start of the month end close I think this is going to be a tough week.

so, any energy boosting tips welcome. I suspect the choccie bar midday yesterday was probably no help at all.

I never thought I would have to utter the words, but I did today.
My oldest, after finally switching off the TV, and moving herself, was in the porch making going out noises. I wander through to see if she is going out and where to.

Just popping to Svens to pick something up

I look at what she is wearing, a white shirt, belted at the waist, tights, and shoes. That is it.

Have you shorts on under that shirt?

Yes, says she, so I ask for proof, and of course she hasn't any shorts on.

"You aren't going out like that!!" were my final words as she disappeared out the door.

hmm, Teenagers