This is my last post for a little while... check in tomorrow to find out why! (See what I did there? It's called building suspense)
This past week I had my French final exams, which means I'm done with intensive French class for good! Between the studying though, I did manage to squeeze in a trip to CERN in Geneva on Wednesday. For those who don't know, CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, home of the world's largest particle accelerator. (Don't worry, before this trip, all my knowledge of CERN came from The DaVinci Code). The organization has been in the news recently for its efforts to prove the existence of the Higgs Boson particle, or "God particle," which may explain the creation of the universe during the Big Bang.
Physics is not my strong suit, in case anyone didn't know this, so it was a little difficult to keep up with the tour guide's explanations. But the exhibits in the CERN museum were fascinating, mainly because they were simple enough for even me to understand:
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| Standing next to the world's largest particle accelerator! (27 km long) |
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| "The Particle Room" |
Then on Saturday night, I went on another exciting Geneva excursion: a Clown Show! My host mom's cousin is a professional "hôpiclown" that entertains sick children in hospitals. This weekend was their big "Spectacle de Clowns" so my host-mom, my host-sister, my host-mom's best friend, her daughter, and Lauren (a previous American exchange student that my family had hosted who now lives in Geneva) went with me to watch. It was hilarious! Really funny and not at all creepy like I had expected.
Anyways, tune in soon to find out why I'm going off the grid :)
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