I'm alive

_{Photo of Lake Zürich taken by my sister}

Hello there world! 8DD

I'm writing this in Switzerland in my cousin's room. I've already been to Paris for three days, visiting relatives and walking my feet off. I came to Zurich by train from Paris which took like 4 hours XD It wasn't very sunny yesterday and today, but sweet baby jesus is Switzerland beautiful! 8DD At least around Zurich! The city, the lake... the valleys, hills and mountains; it makes Switerland seems endless and huge. Just great :)

I went to the library with my sister someday before leaving and I borrowed Assassin's Creed II and Final Fantasy XIII. Good games!!! I especially got stuck playing Assassin's Creed II (like this journal skin indicates) and I actaully bought it later.

First of all, the surroundings are beautiful, I absolutely love jumping and running around the Italian cities. The missions are not too hard, which I personally like, that way there's a nice flow in the story and I don't get stuck that often. I also like the environment, the 15th century's Italy, conspirators, beautiful buildings, paintings etc! And I like to be BFFs with Leonardo Da Vinci, hehe. I would lie if I say I don't liek to kill people in this game because it's basically all it's about XD Fighting is not so fun because I'm not good at it but to assassinate people, just rocks. I'd liek to repeat that it's great fun to climb and jump around the houses and buildings in this game! I get the feeling like nothing is impossible. Lastly, Ezio is awesome.

Final Fantasy XIII was enjoyable because of the characters and the fighting system. Not because of the story because I understand maybe 20% of it X'DD And if you're not fighting or enjoying a cut-scene you basically just run in straight line to go forward. A bit lame.

So for the characters it's because they have rich personalities and backgrounds and because there are so many different characters. I have to admit that I hate all of them, right now, they are all pretty pathetic and annoying; Lightning is a stubborn hag. Snow really is all talk. Hope is pathetic. Vanille is scary and Sazh is just there. Since I borrowed it and had to return it I never got the chance to see them develope, but I'm pretty sure if I had kept playing it, they would grow on me.

I like the fighting system because I can use it. I'm a total RPG n00b, that's why I'm so proud of myself for understanding the fighting system. It was all pretty confusing at first, the whole paradigm thing. Usually I just give up because fighting systems are usually very complex (for me at least). So was very happy when I figured it out, felt liek pro |DD And I also think it looks cool when they change paradigms, which are like fighting strategies.

That's the end of my video game rant X'DD

I'm very sad that the summer break is actually coming to an end. It has gone too fast!!! I think it's probably because I worked a month and I feel like that doesn't count X'DD What's especially sad about THIS summer ending is that I start the real IB after it. I've never been this clueless about how it's going to end before. I don't know how things will work out! I feel like there's no way I'm going to survive IB. I sincerely hope I get well-prepared before the exams. I hate IB, have I mentioned that? It's an awful system created by the Devil.

Moving on, I've realised how much I enjoy being in Paris at my cousins' place. We've been flying there almost every summer for years and I always look forward to it! I hate it that I don't get to see them more often AND because of IB it is now COMPLETELY impossible for me to go on my shorter breaks, fscvkdslkjf"()=#Hjijfi<8/#()H()#/%Y@!!!!


Anyway, this year I went to visit the museum in Paris called Louvre. I've been there once before but I was really small and probably didn't enjoy it like I would now XDD I was especially keen on visitng Louvre 90% because of Assassin's Creed II. I was hoping to see some paintings or artists I would recognise. Not very successful though, in the end I basically only recognised Mona Lisa X'DD FAIL. But I did see a couple of statues of the Greek gods such as Athena and Artemis. I also found a statue of Cupid and Psyche.

Anyways I can't really think of anything more to write. Sadly this was probably a rather uninteresting journal, just me and my video games X'DD But if there's something you want to know just ask!

Bye fer now!