Is that the name of a movie? Oh no, it's just my life right now. Every time I step outside, and when I'm inside, for that matter, I just can't even believe where I am and what I'm doing right now. I feel so incredibly privileged to be able to spend a semester abroad, let alone in Switzerland, let alone with the kindest, most welcoming, and most fun family in Europe, that I sometimes can't even believe it. But that's how I feel about my host family. They have welcomed me in so kindly to their home and gone way beyond what I would have expected. They are a couple with three grown sons and three little grandsons, two of whom I've met and the other I met on skype. They are Sicilian/Italian/Swiss and married/dating Polish so when everyone is over it is a jumble of languages and noise and it always amazes me that somehow we manage to communicate. Their sons speak English (as well as a few other languages, such is life here), but during the week I can onl...
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