Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Switzerland and language

Here we are.
The appartment was a little strange. it isnt as big as i hoped, so any guests and visitors will have to sleep in our living room, which should be okey though. We will change appartments though when we can(next septembre), becouse even if this appartment has a balcony, a bathtub and decent planning, the house and general state of the appartment isnt the shizneck!

Le Locle, the town itself is very, very cute, quite lovely actually. with a million small restaurants, a few supermarkets, hardware stores etc etc. So living here the next year should be realy easy and nice -- EXCEPT -- the house we live in is at a top of a HUUUUGE hill, so we will get thighs of thunder and asses of steel!!
Im quite surprised at how well we are getting over the language barrier, been able to order food, postage stamps, internet(which should arrive in 2 weeks the dude said) prepaid SIM card for my mobile(which should work tomorow) and all sorts of things.

We went on a looong travel to IKEA just outside of Lausanne yesterday, and phew, it was a tough journey to make back with backpacks and bags full of lamps and stuff. but we had too, the appartment didnt have any lights installed, so we needed something atleast.

and now, the weekly "Whats differnt in Switzerland"
All electric plugs are different(atleast all the grounded ones), a problem you dont really see untill your there, trying to plug in your TV to watch a porno-reel...

All-in-all. i am really excited about our stay here in Le Locle.
I am really looking forward to my first working day on monday, ill tell you all about that when we get there :)

/David