Class Schedule, etc.

Monday: French, 8 am to 9 am
Geology, 12:30 to 2:30

Tuesday: French, 9:05 to 10:05
Humanities, 12:30 to 2:15

Wednesday: French, 8 am to 9 am
Sociology, 12:00 to 3:00
Geology, 3:15 to 6:45 (labs will take up half of class every other week)

Thursday: French, 9:05 to 10:05
Humanities, 11:30 to 1:15

Meals for us work like this:

Breakfast is served every morning (7 days a week) at our hotel. It's really great food and includes fruit, cheese, deli meat, boiled eggs, breads, jellies, peanut butter, Nutella, cereals, milk, coffee, hot cocoa, orange juice. It's buffet style, so I get plenty to eat!

Lunch is done on our own. Pepperdine got prepaid corporate cards set up for us with our name on them and everything. We can either withdraw cash or just pay with it. We have 12 francs five days of the week on there for that.

Dinner is a mix of two things: group dinner at a restaurant and the prepaid card thing. The group dinner is at Saint Gery, a little eclectic restaurant not too far from our hotel. On Tuesdays through Thursdays, we all eat the same dish there. For Sunday and Monday night, we have 16 francs to spend on food.

Weekends we're technically on our own, but food isn't all that expensive here so I'll use a lot of the leftover money for the weekend. For example, I can get a foot long sandwich for about 4.50 and I ate a great dinner tonight for 8.50 from the store. (We have a kitchen they let us use here!)

No cell phone yet, but I'm working on it! The grocery store sells prepaid ones fairly inexpensively so then I'll be able to call local numbers on it. Pepperdine is getting us some other phones, but they will just be to call other students here and the faculty within Switzerland. Therefore, I really need two phones. Ugh.

Church was great this morning! There is one Church of Christ in Switzerland and it happens to be 1.7 miles from our hotel on the bottom floor of the preacher's house. The sermon was all in French and they translated the prayers to English. Afterwards, the Smiths invited us up (all five of us) for some great taco salad and great fellowship. They've been in Switzerland for the past twenty years, but were raised in the US kind of. Also, there is a student church held in the building attached to our hotel that meets Sunday nights. They sing contemporary songs (like Hillsong's if you know them) in French and English and it looks neat. I didn't get to go tonight, but I want to next week.

That's all for now. I have to be up bright and early tomorrow morning!