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free food, this time courtesy of some Swiss friends we made who live 4 doors down. A great brunch with all the British trimmings! I guess the catch is we need to return the favour sometime. Any suggestions of what a traditional breakfast/brunch consists of in Switzerland would be welcome!

We had a little lizard crawl around the apartment aswell, a right bugger to catch! Its tail fell off in the process and continued to move despite being dis-associated with its owner!

Decided to get up early this morning and bike into Walmart on my slowly disappearing bike. I brought it about 2 weeks ago and in the mean time, both peddles had literally melted off! I kid you not. The guy there fixed it no problem free of charge, still it only cost me $60 in the first place! Braking can also be interesting in the hot weather. I have thick layers of black brake rubber on my wheel rims where the brakes have literally melted during braking - and im not even riding that hard! Only in Arizona!

We had a lengthly debate at the International student dinner last week about George Bush, a subject brought up by the Director of International Affairs himself who happened to be sitting on our table. I'm not sure if he was sucking up to us foreigners but he took a very liberal approach to the discussion with a less than positive view towards the commander in chief. Still, its only just over a year 'til the next presidential elections, how much more crap can come out of his mouth before then???

And finally, talking of speaking crap, a fellow UK exchange student here had a story to tell of her encounter with an American student.
"You speak very good English for someone from the UK don't you?"
"Yeah, i am from England..."
"Since English is your second language, you speak very fluently!"
"England...English...first language!"
That isn't a completely true reflection of America as a whole by the way although getting them to point to England on a map can be a challenge. Englan-abad - now thats another story!