Well, I’m home and alive and all is well. One year in Switzerland is now in the past, and it’s time to summarize these exchange studies.
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It all begun in September 2009 at Arlanda Airport.
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The two-hour flight to Zürich-Kloten landed me in a warm and familiar city, the city where i was born. I took the tram to the student house in Altstetten where I got to the small room that was to be my home for the next 12 months.
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I was not alone in the house, there were in total 170 students from all over the world…sharing one kitchen. Imagine the mess!
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The ETH Zürich is an impressive university, with a magnificent main building.
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We used to live in that yellow house up that road in Siggenthal.
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I found a second home in the ICF church.
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Having bought a generous train ticket I was able to cheaply travel around the beautiful country and see many sights of the country. I took several trips, on my own and with my Swedish friend Martin.
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I was able to capture some nice shots of the Zürich police intervening in a demonstration.
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Switzerland equals skiing and snow!
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After winter comes the spring. The warm temperatures came back quickly, and around Easter it was possible to go swimming for the first time.
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Zürich is especially beautiful in the spring.
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One of the crazier events during the year was the International Pillow Fight Day that took place at Bellevue.
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The Swiss train system is legendary and I spent many hours commuting and traveling on rails. This was my home station, Zürich-Altstetten
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The main station in the city is the Zürich Hauptbahnhof, around which the entire city is built.
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Almost every station in Switzerland is built to the same functional style. This is the station of Spiez.
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Summer means city festivals and warm evenings.
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The mountains can be breathtaking, to say the least.
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Stein am Rhein.
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I eventually joined the music team in the church, and got baptized!
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It would be impossible to give an exhaustive list of friends, so I’ll just show a few photos of a small portion of the people who have meant a lot to me for this year.
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Sam (photo just above) was kind enough to take the initiative for a goodbye party for me. A nice way to say farewell!
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On August 24th 2010, the airplane left for Stockholm and Sweden.
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12 months of intensive studies in Zürich are over.
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