Yesterday started out as any other ordinary Saturday. I woke up around 8:30, ate breakfast with my host mom and talked about life. She then asked me if I had any plans for the day and I told her that two of my exchange friends had a Rugby game in St.Gallen (the other side of the country) and asked if I could go. She agreed, as she likes me to get out of the house and explore this beautiful country. It's about a three hour journey to St.Gallen, so I brought along my laptop and a few movies I rented from school to watch on the way - by the way, if you haven't seen "Long Walk Home" (also known as "The Rabbit-Proof Fence"), go do that now!
By the time I arrived in St.Gallen and got to the game, I only saw the last few minutes of it - they lost. There were about 10 other exchange students there, so we all hung out for a bit. We ate, sat and talked for a little while and then some people had to head home. The number slowly dwindled until there was only Emmeline, Jade and myself. We decided to head into the old city of St.Gallen because I had never seen it before. Unfortunately I forgot my camera, so I couldn't take pictures to show my brother how cool his soon-to-be new home is! Sorry Jake!
We walked around for a while and they showed me the world-famous Cathedral, and the red "living room" that is so awkwardly placed in the middle of the city. As we walked around, we could hear people yelling, screaming, shouting and singing and we wanted to check it out. We caught up with them just as they were forming a circle in the middle of one of the streets. We walked around them several times, and Im sure we looked like the biggest stalkers alive. Then we noticed that they were playing "Ninja", and we were shocked because we thought that only North Americans knew that game! After circling them a few more times, Emmeline said "Screw it! I'm joining them!" and proceeded to run towards them screaming "Ninja! Ninja! Ninja!". Jade and I followed and we looked like the biggest doofs around with the huge smiles that were plastered on our faces and our constant giggling. We ended up playing a few rounds with them and then they said in German "Thanks for playing with us! But we've got to move on now!" - or so we thought. So we grabbed our bags, said thank you and continued walking down the street. We still had no idea what they were doing or who they were - all we knew was that they were a group of 25, twenty-somethings who were having the time of their lives.
We walked down the street a little further, and we could still hear them and they still hadn't gone anywhere. Instead their group just continued to grow in size and now they had a man with a wagon wearing a white sheet and a veil, and a bunch of men in business suits...
Being the curious kids we are, we wandered back and sat on the side of a fountain and watched. They were now playing some sort of "duck, duck, goose" game but were standing and crawling through peoples legs...interesting. They noticed us sitting there watching them and asked us, as well as many other bystanders to join them. The other bystanders weren't so keen, but there was no way we were turning that invitation down. We joined them and played with them for a little while - still having no idea who they were or what exactly they were doing - and continued to mess up their games because we had no idea what was going on...
After playing for a while, we asked one of the girls what they were doing and she told us that it was the Bachelor party for the man in the white sheet (which we now understood to be his "wedding dress") and that the wagon he was pulling around was full of beer. We couldn't believe what had just happened - we had just joined a Bachelor party. WHAT?!
And to be honest, it was probably the most interesting and exiting experience of my life! Jake, I can't wait for you to get here and you can experience this as a daily event!
If crashing a Bachelor party wasn't on my bucket list, it is now and I think it should be on everyones!
So much live from Switzerland! I'll keep you updated on what I get myself into next weekend!
xoxo,
Madi
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