So, this is my first post in a ring of this type, and I hope the organizers can forgive me for it being a bit late – having a toddler makes me pretty brain addled sometimes. World Blog Surf Day is an opportunity to learn something new about a different culture, especially through the eyes [...]
Archive for October, 2009
World Blog Surf Day/Holidays and Celebrations/Fasnacht!
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged culture, customs, fasnacht, fastnacht, switzerland, traditions, winterthur, world blog surf day on October 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Rushing towards Christmas?
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged differences between US and CH, fall, switzerland on October 14, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Not just yet. This post is spurred by something I read in a friend’s blog today where she was grumbling that a local big supermarket already had Christmas trees and a few Christmas items up for sale. One summer in college I worked at a Hallmark store. I think most people know that every [...]
Adventures in German
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged deutsch, german, german class, lost in translation, switzerland, translation on October 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m now in my second class of the study of the German language. I’m still pretty terrible at it, especially since I don’t have the discipline to fully immerse myself. I should be watching more German TV, and studying harder.
Tonight’s class started with a brief discussion of what symptoms you would have if you had [...]
Mainau Island, Germany
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged constance, garden, gardens, germany, insel, island, konstance, konstanz, mainau, mainau island, switzerland on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weekends ago, we went to visit a good friend of ours who lives just across the border in Constance, Germany. It is only about a 45 minute train ride from Winterthur, and we can even take a direct train with no transfers.
We’d been to the city of Constance once before close to Christmas [...]
The Walls in the Mall…
Posted in Switzerland 2008-2009, tagged sihlcity, switzerland, zurich on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
…are like totally totally tall, for sure, dude.
Only members of my immediate family will get that joke. But I thought of it today when I ventured into a Swiss version of a shopping mall in Zurich with my friend Stacy today.
Most shopping can be found in shops in a city’s center. A bakery can be [...]
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