Summer Holiday

"Were all going on a summer holiday.
No more working for a week or two.
Fun and laughter on a summer holiday.
No more worries for me and you.
For a week or two." - Cliff Richards

And so I am off on my super summer holiday, owing to my 25 years of having walked this earth :) ooooo..I'm soo excited that I'm quite unable to even write this post. I'm going on a month's Euro Trip :D [not the movie, but I hope close enough]. I'm visiting Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France. The fact of the matter is that my Elder is a part of the 41ers Club (Roundtable) and I'm really going on a YAP exchange program with 10 other Indian kids (who're total strangers to me). So I'm gonna be staying with families of fellow members of the European Chapter, which means I only pay for the air-fare and whatever I buy as souveniers :)

In addition to site-seeing (and not being in contact with technology or family), I get to sample local cuisine and get an up-close and personal insight to the local cultures too. So while everyone is warning me about the food (which apparently is quite unlike Indian food), I'm looking at it as an opportunity to eat gorge on local stuff (cheeses included). And if that doesn't work for me, I'm guessing that it'll just make me appreciate home food that much more :) But I've already begun brushing up my French, although I'm hoping to find some French guy (like in the M&Bs) to sweep me off my feet when he whispers sweet nothings in the language of love (and I'm ONLY refering to the language French..lol)
The people who organise this, claim that we'd be walking an approximate 100km in 30 days!! AAAAAAAA..the only bright side to this will probably that I'd come back India with a brand new willowy figure :D

The funny thing is that I'm not too worried about not carrying a phone or having to see a computer screen for the next month :) I'm actually looking forward to it, much to the dislike of those close to me. But the hardest part of this adventure is the packing!! :( As a girl, I usually tend to over-pack because face it, you never know when you're going to need something. Am I right? Our organizers are suggesting that we carry only 1 suitcase and 1 knapsack!! (because we'd have to take care of and lug our own stuff around and that because train stops are kinda short) How am I ever going to manage? And to think, I bought myself a pair of sexy boots, even sexier heels, new Crocs and even a couple of new clothes :(

The other thing thats scaring me is the weather. As a South Indian, I'm used to a tropical climate bordering pre-heated baking oven. Even so, I'm a summer child, meaning that while I can stand extreme amounts of heat, I can't bear the cold. And the average temp. in Europe in summer (which is now) is between 10 and 25 Degrees Celsius. Egaads!

Oh well. I'm off for a month. I will try to post pictures and sneak in a blog post every now and then. Until then Au Revoir :)