So it's been a while, but this week was pretty quiet. We had Monday off as a recovery day for the Paris trip, Tuesday we had an interesting professor come to talk to us about basic political economic, weds was a review session, and Thursday we went to the ILO to have a briefing on child labor which was actually pretty interesting.
Jena also came to visit this weekend! She came in on thursday night so I just stayed around Nyon after French class and met her at the airport around 7:45. We dropped her stuff off at the hostel she was staying in, and then walked around Geneva for a little while (it was freezing though, so not that long), and grabbed some dinner. After dinner I headed home.
We met back up in the morning because I only had a few short meetings at school. Jena, Steph, and I walked around Old Town and Steph and I gave her an abridged tour, which she seemed to enjoy. Then I headed back for a short ISP meeting with Alexandre (my prof) and Jena met and hung out with some of my friends. We all grabbed some lunch and then headed back to SIT so I could pick up my graded papers and talk to Aline (another prof) about my cultural paper due in a few weeks (the meeting turned out to be wayyyyy too long, way to be a good sport jena!). Turns out SIT doesn't grade hard at all, because I got A's on both my papers with putting minimal effort into them (and I mean that hahah).
Around 4pm, Jena and I caught a train to Luzern, a cool little city in the middle of the country. The ride there was about 3 hrs, but we met up with a really nice couple and they talked to us almost the entire way there. The city was beautiful when we arrived and there was a crazy light show going on. The city is best known for its covered bridges (see pictures) from the medieval ages. We watched the show for a while, headed to our hotel, and then grabbed some dinner (after wandering around the city for about an hour looking for a good, cheap place). After dinner we headed to a little jazz club and grabbed a drink, but we were exhausted and called it a night.
Yesterday (Sat.), we woke up and set out to explore the city. We walked all over the city (which isn't very large), and hiked up to the old part of the city which is actually enclosed in a fortified wall from centuries ago. Unfortunately, the wall was closed during the winter, so we couldn't go in it and walk along the top of it. After exploring for a few more hours, we went into a cool little art museum, a personal collection of modernist art, including a ton of Picasso. After, we got some raclette (for jena's sake), and chilled in a cool restaurant by the water for a while. Then we went back and chilled in the hotel until dinner. We grabbed some dinner, and then went to a cool little bar for a while. We called it an early night because I wasn't feeling great, woke up this morning, checked out, and now I'm home.
It was really nice to take a break from the group for a few days and be with a good friend again. It was also really intriguing to get Jena's take on Switzerland (she loved it and thought it was beautiful, but couldn't believe how quiet it was at night and stuff). I think we had a good, relaxing weekend, and I can't wait to get a taste of Barcelona life in April (hopefully).
This week should be interesting. We have the last cultural paper for our FSS due in a week and a half, so I gotta start working on that. We are also headed to the UNCTAD (UN Center on Trade and Development), as well as a few other IO's that deal with economics and politics, which is what I'm really interested in. Other than that, we have only two or three weeks of actually class left before we begin out ISP period. Pretty crazy. I can't believe how fast time is flying by here, I have less that two months left before I head home.
Luzern Pics
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