Brian recently moved into a new apartment, so I helped him put together his IKEA closet. We had a little mishap, but we managed to narrowly escape disaster. It was a lot like playing grown-up LEGOs. We also found some curtains and put those up in his room. I forgot to take a picture of the final product, but I will admit that I'm somewhat jealous of his room. While we were wandering though the city, we happend upon a sort of protest (where there were probably two policemen for each protestor), which was due to the apparent meeting of all of the national security officers across the globe. The joke is that when Iran's defense minister showed up, who they weren't even expecting, they put him in the hotel room next to Israel's. None of us knew about this event and only really found out because of the protests. That night, we went out with a couple of Brian's work friends to a really good little place called Schwabinger Wassermann.
On Sunday, Brian, a bunch of his friends, and I, went to the Zugspitze in Garmisch-Partenkirchen to go skiing. Technically we weren't on Zugspitze itself, but on the mountain right next to it. We ended up getting a pretty good deal for the train+lift ticket, but it involved getting up at 5:45 AM. The weather was, unfortunately, horrible for skiing, as it was so foggy you could barely see anything, but the snow was amazingly fresh and the weather did clear up as the day went on. Over the course of the day, I (not really intentionally) made it down a black-diamond route, managed not to fall off of the tug-lifts, improved my control, and managed to fall with grace. I will admit that I fall a lot, especially when I get going a little bit too fast by accident, but I've been doing pretty well at taking some pretty hard falls (and then sometimes skidding 80 feet or so down the hill across the snow) without getting hurt. Of course this place, like the last one, had little huts on the side of the mountain where you could sit down and get a bite to eat, so we were able to take our lunchbreak on the peak of the mountain.
Here are some pictures that I managed to take:
Today, I started my new part time job doing some programming at a consulting company. It's a pretty small firm, now a 3-person operation plus a couple freelancers, and we share a floor with an architecture firm, so it's a pretty neat environment. Overall it looks like it should be a nice way to make some money on the side to pay rent (and pay for these skiing trips that I took!), and it's really close to my university and my apartment, which is really convenient, but then again, everything is pretty close together in St. Gallen. This job is also a great way for me to get intense exposure to Swiss German, since that's what people speak here in every single part of life.
1 comment:
Great! Looks like a blast. Good luck with the new job.
love, mom
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