By Mascha Davis
We have arrived and we are definitely not in the US anymore. The first week was a whirlwind of moving in, exploring the neighborhood, taking a spontaneous trip to Zurich, going on a trek in the Swiss Alps and...lots of grocery shopping. Why so much grocery shopping? Because our fridge is tiny, as in: small, compact, efficient and well thought out - like pretty much everything in this country.
Our foyer is right by Lake Geneva and a ten minute walk from the train station so our location is très parfait. Everyone speaks French and it is amazing how quickly one picks up the language when 'forced' to (the French classes before arriving didn't hurt, either). I have by now consumed enough pastries for probably the next month or so (and the delicious chocolaterie / boulangerie next door is not helping my case here), and am totally enamored with the adorable cafès everywhere.
After being here for such a short time, we have already managed to achieve the impossible: getting lost on a trail in the Alps. Our Lonely Planet guidebook claims that it is 'impossible' to get lost while trekking in this country. The authors, however, have apparently not attempted to summit a peak during a whiteout.
It was actually the weather's fault, not ours, because it's supposedly spring time, but somehow we ended up in multiple feet of snow and unable to see more than twenty feet in front of us, after climbing a mountain. At this point we decided it was best to turn around. At the bottom it was of course raining, and we were tired, wet, cold, and hungry. But, luckily, in Switzerland, you are never too far from a charming town and warm bowl of bubbling fondue, which we found an hour's walk away.
Mascha Davis completed her Master of Public Health degree at UCLA. She is participating in the Humanitarian Track of the Duke Program in Global Policy and Governance and is working as a policy and communications intern at the International AIDS Society.
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