So I really can't believe it's only been a week. A lot has happened, especially official stuff I had to set up with classes and student ID cards and getting a monthly tram pass, and finding my own way from the Hauptbahnhof (main train station) to the hostel I would be staying at for two days before moving into my student apartment. During my stay, I met a group of people, individually from London, Ireland, and Australia, with whom I went food shopping and made dinner, and went on a pub crawl the next night. So my stay in Switzerland started out with drunk adventures, dances with this Brazilian dude and listening to some pretty great music at different clubs. Probably was not the best idea considering I had to find my way with my future roommate to our housing complex the next day, but I'm glad I did it anyway.
Since then it's been my intensive course, so for about 6 or 7 hours a day I try only to speak German. Frankly it's kind of embarrassing when I go out and try to speak German with people, because they know immediately that I'm American or something and start talking to me in English. I'm getting better though, and that's what counts, right?
I underestimated how expensive everything would be. I was told over and over again that it would be expensive and now I see: a bottle of olive oil is about 9 Swiss francs. So food and IKEA shopping was a bummer today.
I hope all of my blog posts will not be this bad. I'll probably recall some other things that happened later. Once my classes start and more traveling happens, I'll be more excited to post and probably more eloquent.
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