Since my visit the previous year Gabriel’s parents had sold there house in Degersheim and bought a really cool house near Romanshorn on Lake Constance, Bodensee. It was great to see the Schneiders again; they have since become a second family to me.
I did the whole sight seeing thing again and saw some more really cool parts of Switzerland,
but other than that there weren’t many crazy happenings while I was there. BBQ parties were of course on the agenda, as was drinking in the infamous St. Gallen party pub, The Birrerria. I chilled with Gabriel’s friends a lot more on this visit then I had on the previous visit and that point soon turned into something solid when a spark ignited a relationship between a friend of Gabriel’s and I. Her name was Claudia. It started a weekend trip to Chur for a city fest that is popular in Graubunden. Things with her were innocent at first, but I felt strong attraction to her and she for me and it became apparent that it was more than a week fling. To be continued…….I also did some ‘volunteering’ at a nursing home for the mentally and physically
handicapped, because Claudia was doing an internship there. It was there that I met a shining star, Magdalegne Nassatti. She had a striking resemblance to my mother after she had been through chemotherapy and had the same ‘never give up’ attitude that I had admired in my mother while she was struggling so desperately. The afternoons I spent with her and the others at the ‘Imbodenhuus: St. Gallen’ would probably have to go down as some of my most memorable for all the time I spent in ‘die Schwiiz.’Towards the end of my 3-week vacation a hurricane was brewing in the Atlantic which I was eyeing carefully. It hit Florida and my family was fine, but I couldn’t get any information about the apartment Iowa and I were supposed to be moving into the following week. Also, to be continued……
And before I knew it, my 3 weeks were up and it was back to Florida to start my 5th year of university and for a dose of real life.
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