We made it: we are here in Switzerland. I'll let you in on a little secret: it does not seem much different than South Dakota or Iowa; other than the facts that, on a good day, I can see the Alps from my window, everybody around me is speaking a language I can not understand, and it took me four days to find a way to get power to my computer. Last time I was in Europe, the whole everybody-is-speaking-gibberish thing was a bit shocking for me, but maybe I am used to it now. Who knows?
So what have we been up to? Settling. Lots of settling, really. And sleeping. To steal a phrase from Travis, I think I slept enough in the past two nights that I shouldn't ever have to sleep again. But that may have been necessary since the seven hour time difference cut out one night's worth of sleeping. We've been getting aquainted with our house-mates, finding food, calculating train tickets, and finally today we both started working. Well, I haven't started working, yet, because I decided to write this blog first, but I'll start working soon enough. But that's all, for now. Leave us some questions in the comment area and we might try to answer some of them in future blogs.
But now, I should start working...
2 comments:
1. Power to your computer! Brilliant! I had forgotten that much of Europe (all of Europe?) operates at a different voltage level. How did you fix that?
2. Housemates? Hostel-mates? Roommates? Just wondering if it was the (comical, at least in my head) hostel situation where you stay on cots/bunks in a large room and Bryan does work every day while sitting on the same cot he sleeps on.
3. It is very clear here today. I cannot see Alps or mountains of any sort.
bryan--we may not have ever officially met. i found your blog through rachel's. anyway. I love reading it. you are a good writer.Enjoy your trip... and if you get a chance to go to eastern europe, do it. it is gorgeous, and maybe I am just generalizing, but the people are fabulous.
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