Switzerland and other bits o' News from London

Okay, with Economic graphs of elastic supply and demand quickly falling out of my brain, I am FINALLY ready to report all of the exciting moments of my weekend....right before I leave for another fabulous weekend...what a blur. Don't worry, I have my eyes wide open as its flying by.


Last friday, my friend Miranda and I headed off to Lausanne, Switzerland to see my best friend Chelsea and her best friend Hanna, who happen to be roommates in the Pepperdine program in Switzerland.  One of my other best friends, Ally, who is studying in Germany, met us in Switzerland for the weekend!  
Friday, Chelsea and Hanna gave us the grand tour of Lausanne, stopping for the best hot chocolate I've ever had as we trekked up the side of a hill as it was snowing to the Lausanne Cathedral.  This cathedral was used to report invaders on the other side of Lake Geneva. You know, Switzerland being neutral and such didn't really want any riffraff in the country :) 
That night we had an AMAZING cheese fondue dinner! Because Switzerland is famous for my two favorite food groups: chocolate and cheese, I made sure that I did not miss a meal.  Did I mention that the Swiss franc is equal to the American dollar?? REJOICE!!


The next morning, we awoke at an ungodly hour to train 45 minutes to Verbier, one of top ten skiing destinations in the world.  Here, Cheslsea and Ally gave me my very first skiing lesson....on the Swiss Alps. 
As we ascended the ski lift for 20 minutes (I timed it) to reach the first ski trail I knew I was in for a true disaster.  And it was.  For some reason, the Swiss Alps skiers believe its perfectly normal to make the very first run as soon as you get off the lift a hard/challenging course before even reaching the beginner course.  The advice I had received was if all else fails, take a seat.  Well, thats what I did, except everytime I sat down, I just kept on going. Did I mention that it had snowed five feet the night before? Basically everytime I fell, which was very often, the only way anyone knew was from the giant snow puff that was released into the air. Oh, did I also mention that I was given an ALL WHITE ski suit? Oh, and pink skis, not my plan AT ALL.  So when I wasn't falling, I was attempting to sit and that basically meant that I enjoyed a free sled ride down the entire run.  
Needless to say, I had a fabulous time "skiing" and I can say that I learned and attempted to ski the Swiss  Alps...did I ever mention we were above the clouds, like 20,000-something km above sea level. WOOHOO!
After I was completely exhausted I left Chelsea and Ally to go ski their double black diamonds and I returned to my own skills, speaking french to the people and lodging with LOTS of hot chocolate. 
It was an amazing weekend!! Switzerland, as you're about to see is gorgeous, freezing, but amazingly beautiful!
Oh, did I mention they speak french there? Yeah I took my ski lessons in french, that could have been a problem. 




Now for other news. I leave for Paris in the morning and Chelsea will be meeting Azzurra and I. Britt is leaving tonight for Paris to meet up with a high school friend, so tomorrow we will all explore Paris.  I intend to where red lipstick and fabulous, frivolous clothing and only eat my favorite Laudaree macaroons the entire weekend! A city as chic and frivilous as Paris deserves nothing less. I LOVE PARIS! Then the whole group leaves for Egypt on Sunday morning and I cannot wait for SUN! I desperately miss it!


On February 19th I will be helping out at London Fashion Week with Azzurra and Claire. There is a designer, Jeff Garner, that graduated from Pepperdine and is originally from Franklin, TN that has an entirely organically sustainable clothing line for men and women called Prophetik and the tag line is "wearable philosophy." We are going to help with the pre and post events and will be helping backstage during the show. It should be very exciting, I will keep everyone updated and hopefully have photos to share afterwards!


A bit of housekeeping: the link that I sent in the previous post, isn't a direct link. You will have to type www.findingkind.com into your url web browser and then click on watch trailer to view it.  I am so so proud of Lauren and Molly and this documentary is going to incredible, not only for my sorority and Pepperdine, but hopefully for girls around the country.  They intend to sell the documentary to middle schools around the country after the project is completely finished. They travelled to over 40 cities over the last year to put this film together and I could not be more excited for what the future holds for them, afterall they haven't even been out of college for an entire year yet!  Also, last month Molly's boyfriend proposed to her under the Eiffel Tower and they are now engaged...gag me, so cute.


Love to everyone and I will try and post sooner rather than later after I return from Egypt!
xoxo
Carson

lake geneva, from Chelsea and Hanna's room

at the bottom of a run, after I slid all the way down, waiting for Ally and Chels to finish skiing down

Ally and Chelsea, taking a snack break

me blending in with the snow :)

the town of Lausanne

Miranda, Ally, Me, Chels outside of the Lausanne Cathedral

Me and Hanna waiting to get on the ski lift....did I mention is was -14 degrees Celsius...i had around seven thousand layers on, making me look even more like a marshmellow

A Kappa Kappa Gamma photo :)

At the veryyyy top of Verbier...so beautiful!

another beautiful view of Verbier


































Now, I highly debating featuring this photo on the internet for all to see, however, as you all know I don't take myself very seriously AT ALL. So if this doesn't make everyone's thursday I don't know what will, I know my very own mother laughed FOREVER after seeing this. Chelsea just happened to capture me after I had seriously sledded down a run for around ten minutes:

I am clearly made for water sports NOT snow sports.














































BYE! :)