Third Week of School

Well, I'm enjoying school and we've come upon our first holiday of the year. 9/10/07 is 'Knabenschiessen' day or 'Boy shooting day'. No, it is not about shooting boys. It's about kid's from Zurich having a shooting competition. the winner gets money. It is not only for boys either. about 6 to 10 years ago, (you can never be sure.) they started letting girls in the fun as well. 2 years ago, the winner was a girl. You know, Switzerland has weird holidays. at the end of winter there is also a holiday where they make a snowman out of Paper mache and put explosives in it's head. Then they burn it. People get really excited when the head explodes and it is said that the speed that the snowman burns determines how good the winter is going to be. Sounds weird to me, but it sure beats going to school.