report from .ch

Christine's house is amazing - it's a huge house on a hill overlooking Zurich. Eight or nine people live here, and it's pristinely clean and elegantly/formally decorated, like a castle or something with the dining room and the Library and so on. They buy their food communally (online-it's delivered) but it's not really a co-op... more like a long-term group living situation where people tend to stick around for many years. A WG, to use the phrase I learned from Ryan and Lisza.

We went out for dinner and then a couple beers in town, talking mostly about physics, I think, but also what we've both been up to. Dinner was at a vegetarian restaurant that was very good. Served buffet style, but of course, this being switzerland, the food is sold by weight and is extremely expensive ($15 for a modest plate). Tomorrow Christine will be at work during the day... then I'm going to meet her for her journal club and go out to dinner with some other students.

I have a nice little room all to myself.