The other day it was registration time at ETH. About a hundred exchange students were gathered in the G60 hall, a very interesting place with large antique-style pillars and exquisite paintings in the ceiling. We got a lot of information about registration, grants, examination and so on. What was really nice was the fact that we now got to know how much grant money we were going to get as part of the Erasmus program. 250 francs a month, not bad!

This was the first time I met some Swedish people who don’t live at my hostel. A large bunch of Indek-students from Lund and two studying Teknisk Fysik (yay!) at KTH in Stockholm.

From the terrace of the G60 hall there was a nice view over Zürich. The location of the ETH is really something, you can see the whole city from there.

After the registration I also got hold of my ETH card and the login to the computer system. The intranet at ETH is really advanced, in a completely different level than the one in Linköping. I have also been looking at my courses and trying to make a sensible schedule, but there seems to be a lot of collisions. I’m going to take another look at it tomorrow.

I’ve opened another Swiss bank account, just to get a credit card. Too bad that I have to wait for my final residence permit to arrive before the bank sends me the card. Also, since the competition between the Zürich banks is fierce (who could have guessed…?) I will get nice stuff like free night-time bus rides and one flight ticket with Swiss to a European destination of my choice.

Tonight we had some house infos at the hostel. Obviously the big issue was the messy kitchen, and everybody was urged to look after themselves. There were also requests for a freezer, but it didn’t seem too likely that that will happen.

Greg (Canada) and Joel (Australia) are among those I’ve got to know the last few days.

The “Töggeli-Kasten” is very popular around here.

Tomorrow I’ll go to church for the first time here. The “celebration” at ICF starts at 11, so I’ll see you all there!