I went. I loved the week long of class. Hated the rest of my time there. Were you really expecting me to enjoy myself? You really don't know me if you did.
The class was great. I loved meeting everyone, and have a slight crush on my professor. It's not the first professor I've had a crush on. And it's always the Middle-Eastern men who get crushes on me. We met Monday-Friday and worked from 9:00 am - 9:00 pm working on projects. We did a large multi-class lunch on Thursday and I met even more interesting people. I wish the group was doing more classes together but this is the last class for most of us. Definitely should do this as the beginning of the program, not at the end.
The rest of the time I found very stressful. I don't do vacation. I don't even like a three day weekend. So two weeks in a foreign country, in a tiny hotel room that doesn't even have a chair to sit on, with lots of idle time, is not my idea of fun. I don't like to shop (couldn't afford to even if I did like it) and don't enjoy eating out. (Definitely couldn't afford to eat out in Zurich where lunch started at $20) And even this introvert needs a little human interaction so going alone was extremely lonely. In fact, both border patrol, Zurich and US, when asking length of stay, purpose of visit, was I traveling alone, did a double take when I said "Yes. I'm traveling alone." "Really?"
This is the other sad thing I realized I'm now not normal for the rest of society. Out of 30 classmates there were only four women. And there were only three single people. I realized I am now not part of a larger statistic. Up till 30 it was abnormal to be single and LDS, but the rest of the developed world was still single. But now I'm in a demographic that pretty much everyone is married, or married and divorced. People, even non-LDS people, think its a bit strange for someone my age to be never-married and childless.
Anyway, I'll post additional Zurich photos in the next post.
