Day 13: Training!
The day began with Tour training with Catt after the morning meeting! Since I was not picked to be a tour guide at UMASS, giving tours at Our Chalet will be fun. After going over set-up, we reviewed the script for the tours. First, the script that accompanies the power point and the prouncition of some of the words. Then we went to each area in Spyker (I've been misspelling it so far as Speaker haha. It's the building where reception and guest accommodations are located) and in Main Chalet while reviewing the script. I learned the names of the surrounding mountains and some other fun facts.

Fun Fact: Adelboden's flag has an Eagle on it because Adelboden means land of the Eagles.
Fun Fact: The WAGGGS room in Main Chalet used to be Falk's  room. Note: Falk helped found Our Chalet with Helen Storrow.

The afternoon was dedicated to putting all of my clothes in my suitcase through the wash, putting my suitcase outside in the sun and moving all of my stuff to camp house. Because of some nighttime visitors, I opted to move to camp house which required a lot of laundry. Camp house is located near Our Chalet and is a 5 minute walk from Main Chalet. Two summer vollies remained in the attic, two summer vollies are sleeping in a tent near Camp house, one summer vollies is in the first floor of Camp house, and the rest of us are in the loft area in Camp House. The loft area is about half the size of the T-bar (very small) and the stairs to get there are located in the back of the house. The first floor is slightly bigger and we are storing our suitcases and clothes in there. Luckily, there is a bathroom attached to camp house.

Then, it was Eurovision time!! Eurovision is a big song competition in Europe. Each country chooses a representative (s) to perform a song, first qualify for the finals and then (if the country qualifies) compete in the finals for the title of Eurovision. The winning country hosts Eurovision the next year and also wins the glory of Eurovision haha. Eurovision this year was hosted in Azerbaijan.


Two spring vollies, Eve and Karin, hosted the party in the conference room in Spyker for Eurovision. We all came dressed as countries and had to get a little creative haha. I came dressed as Switzerland (though Switzerland did not compete in the finals); I wore a red tank top and put the cross on my shirt in white tape. Other countries present included: the UK, Albania, Hungary, Turkey, France, Italy, Ukraine, and Ireland.

The first part of Eurovision is watching all of the finalists. There were 26 countries competing, though a few countries automatically go to the finals because their countries donate a lot of money to Eurovision. The acts were all interesting. Some memorable ones: Lithuania: The teen male sang "Love in Blind" and he had a sparkly blindfold which he ripped off half-way through the song and then did some break dancing.
Ireland: Two twins dressed in robot costumes sang about a fountain and had matching dance moves. There was also a fountain that they jumped into at the end.
Russia: There were five or six ladies in their 70s who sang a song about partying while they baked bread in an oven.
Turkey: There was a group of men and the lead singer sang about boats. They all had capes on and with their capes made a makeshift boat twice during their song.

Then, after all of the countries compete people call in to vote. The voting though is very political because people usually vote for their neighbors or allies from World War II. We did a local voting on paper (the top three, number 1 being the winner) and I voted for my three favorites:
1. Sweden - This female singer (according to Karin), is at the top of I-tunes in Europe currently. She was very talented and stuck out me the most.
2. Ireland! They were very eccentric and interesting
3. Norway - They had a group of a five people. A woman, playing the violin, and a man harmonized a song. The back-up singers in their group also harmonized with them. They reminded me of Within Temptation (an awesome band!) and they were very talented.

I left Eurovison early, so I didn't know who won before I trekked back to Camp house for bed.