Something nobody is able to resist

and this DEFINITELY is the charm of Switzerland & especially Geneva!!

Well, the first week has passed by, very quickly btw, I was quite surprised when it was Tuesday again!! And wow, I so love it here, you cannot image how much... I don’t know if i ever want go back home... I just can’t imagine being somewhere else right now ;)

I had various subjects during the week, held in English and in French(see last blog), but the most interesting and awesome course is “Négoce International – Commodity Trading”! It lasts the whole Friday from 9.30 ‘til 18.00 and we have to do a lot for it, but it is worth 10 ECTS :) It is held half in English & half in French, and it’s not thaat easy to “switch” between the languages that fast... but as I usually think in English it’s okay, but if I would have to explain what I do there in German, I don’t think I’d be able to do so sufficiently... ^^

3 minutes before the lecture, nobody BUT the erasmus students are there... hmmm ^^

But the REALLY awesome thing is the multilingual approach& the multicultural feeling everywhere – just simply amazing!! Just sitting in the tram and listening to parts of French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian and Arabic, I definitely am on cloud no.9 :D

Last Saturday I finally had time for myself and sorting out my thoughts and also my pictures ;) It was really liberating to have total peace & a quiet environment after all the hectic of the whole week... I am everyday so tired from the courses that are held in French because I have to concentrate very hard to understand enough to get what exactly “le prof” is telling us & wanting us to do!

Buut, as I knew that a certain Finn is in Switzerland too, I had to use my very expensive railway ticket to get there... Olten was awesome, I had a LOT of fun and it was so good to finally see some of the people from last year again and in a different setting too... Olten is a small town, just like my hometown in Austria, and I felt like at home immediately... Especially the view that you can have from the 12^th floor of his flat, WOW... I was mesmerized!!!! It was also awesome to just speak one language for one day, because it is not as tiring as switching between 3 all the time ;)

I don’t really want to know how the language part of my brain looks right now, but I am pretty sure it is VERY VERY confused because of all the different languages I hear & speak all the time :) And on the other hand I am so happy to have this opportunity to practise so many languages at once, because that means I will get better... Like yesterday I even understood about 80% of the lecture, which is a huuuge step in comparison to last week where I had like a headache because of really having to concentrate TOO hard...

And what I really really love the most about Switzerland is the character of most of the people – for example, when sitting in a train in eastern Austria, people usually don’t speak to you… in western Austria it is nearly the exact opposite of that, they are friendly and ready to talk about anything with you! And it is exactly like that in Switzerland... I think, I am falling in love with this country! :)