Busy Busy!!!

the weeks are flying now and although i have only been here 7 weeks today, i feel like i have been here a lot longer... in a good way!
last weekend amanda stayed over both friday and saturday nights. we didnt do much, went to rapperswil and had lunch, stayed in watched some movies, just a quiet one! then on sunday i went out for lunch with jenny and we saw 'the devil wears prada' at the movies which cost $18 but was worth it.
the week was a good one. on monday we went to uster to a pumpkin farm as halloween was tuesday. it was really fun carving the pumpkins as we dont really follow that tradition back home. the rest of the week was just the usual but i am starting to get more responsibilty with the kids as catherine becomes more confident in me. one day this week i was allowed the kids by myself for the afternoon and i took them over to jenny's house to play. they had heaps of fun and we made chocolate crispies! i also now sometimes pick noel up from school which is good and i have to drive the massive car!!!
all in all the week was good. catherine said i can have christmas off so we started to plan for our trip to italy. and german class has been getting easier as i start to understand the concept of the language.
friday night after class lacey, lucille, sara, manda and i went to the zurich wine expo which was on the lake on all these ferries. it was really nice, even though it was so cold out! when i was walking home there was ice on the cars!!
saturday i spent the day shopping for warm stuff like gloves, scarf, jackets and also noels birthday present. all the girls then went out on saturday night to zurich. we went to a bar called lady hamiltons which is an english pub. we had the best night. we were just dancing all night and we met a random guy from miami who was buying us drinks allll night. got home at 2.30ish and slept like a log!
today was then spent in rapperswil for noels birthday with the family. we went to dieci for italian. then this afternoon i met the girls at zurich and we had a wander and then went to andree wind (lucilles boss mum) for coffee and au pair chat. the night was pretty bad as andree is a physcho but then we went to thai at erlanbach so we finished the weekend nicely.
the weather here is getting so cold and it hasnt even started snowing yet. i hope i get used to it soon because it is unbearable at the moment.
well its noels birthday tomorrow so i have to wrap his present and then i need to find what time i am going to the dentist tomorrow.... have to probably get more collagen stuffed into my gum.....