i didn't know swiss people hardly smile......?

hey there,

i'm swiss. i have been studying in beijing for a year and a half now, i came here right after graduating from highschool, so my perception of switzerland is limited to a part that most expats won't know.

i'm very conscious of the fact that all the strict 'etiquette' and everything makes swiss people quite cold, but i have to say that most of the people i met in highschool liked to party and make jokes and smile...

for the partying, obviously switzerland is not the best place for clubbing(but that's to be expected as our biggest city's only 1mio. people), but we young peop's make our own events sitting by lakes, in the forest, or at people's home, cooking pasta and drinking beer and listening to music till dawn...

oh, and it's the same for university students, really. the polytechnic school in lausanne has its own student-organised bar...with good beer and it's a good place to escape from all that maths and physics they study there (my brother used to work there,and he's a pretty funny guy in my opinion)

oh, and my dad who is 58 loooooves laughing. i remember when i was a kid and my parents would have friends coming over for dinner, i often could'nt sleep until late because they were laughing so loud. oh, makes me feel nostalgic to think of that.

anyways, i have a lot of foreign friends here in beijing, and they don't seem to hate me or to think i'm cold and boring, so as a normal person i apologise for the racist and narrow minded people you might meet in this tiny country, i don't like them either, and i hope you can find the other ones, because living in a country whose people and culture you hate isn't very comfortable... so why not give switzerland another chance?

carine 23 Jan 2009, 04:59 - Report