You may have noticed there has been very little activity in the Observations and Fun With Culture categories on this site. When I was picking out the categories, I thought those two would get used a lot. They sounded like they would be the most fun to write and probably to read. It’s been bugging me a bit so I tried to figure out why I wasn’t using them. Sadly, I realized it probably has a lot to do with how relatively little I have interacted with the culture here so far.
I remember when I told my friends we were moving out here, some of them actually went so far as to say the experience might be wasted on me. Sure, I never had the travel bug like most of them, but I figured even I would find a way of enjoying the adventure. For the record, I have been enjoying it a lot… but not as much as I probably could. I’m not an outgoing person in terms of meeting people. This is definitely a city where you have to go out of your way to meet somebody and that just isn’t one of my strengths. I think it’s just a matter of time. The language thing could be big. You will definitely be hearing about the first German conversation I have outside of class. That will be huge.
I asked these bankers to pretend like they were my friends and do a happy pose. They just gave me blank banker stares.
It’s not an oversight that I typed that completely in the first person without referring to Chizzy at all. That is because when I think of the times I am probably not interacting to my full potential it is during the week, when she is at work and I have a pretty good amount of free time. When I say she is busy with work here, I am referring the 12 hour days every day. So, Chiz gets a lot of interaction at work and when we spend time together on weekends we have a great time and I think we are taking advantage of our situation pretty well.
So, even though they are not going to start off as any great social or political insights that I had in mind for these sections, I’m going to try to use them more often. I have started with an entry about the Zurich Trams.
