I just returned from a shindig at a local bar (5 minutes away from where I live) where I bonded with ILO interns and drank German beer that tasted vaguely of bananas. And then found out that my roommate -- bless her -- is going to try to stay in this room and continue our good cohabitating relationship, rather than move out at the order of the ladies that run the house. And my mother called to tell me that disrespectful people are to be avoided like the plague -- especially in friends and potential spouses.
A good day, all in all, except for the work bit.
It's been deathly quiet around the office, with 2 of 3 supervisors out of the office, no Assembly reports to annotate and the fellow intern getting stuck in Lyon and all. I've been amusing myself by learning about the World Bank and IMF. And indigenous land rights. In Africa.
I went to Lausanne and the Olympic Museum this weekend (all on my own) as an attempt to escape Geneva's Sunday lethargy. Nice place, a little Italinate, quiet with a pretty waterfront.
There's talk of going to Lugano this weekend, in the Italian part of Switzerland. Switzerland's got something of a schizophrenic identity: neutral, efficient, and simultaneously French, Italian, and German. Does this mean they all cancel each other out?
A good day, all in all, except for the work bit.
It's been deathly quiet around the office, with 2 of 3 supervisors out of the office, no Assembly reports to annotate and the fellow intern getting stuck in Lyon and all. I've been amusing myself by learning about the World Bank and IMF. And indigenous land rights. In Africa.
I went to Lausanne and the Olympic Museum this weekend (all on my own) as an attempt to escape Geneva's Sunday lethargy. Nice place, a little Italinate, quiet with a pretty waterfront.
There's talk of going to Lugano this weekend, in the Italian part of Switzerland. Switzerland's got something of a schizophrenic identity: neutral, efficient, and simultaneously French, Italian, and German. Does this mean they all cancel each other out?
