Geneva ... A summary

Shivani fails at blogging.........

Jk, she just doesn't have time to write the Geneva post and someone *cough, jake* *cough* wanted this post written. Ok, so here are some of the highlights of our Geneva trip.

- We actually did very little in Geneva. To sum it up, we: slept, cooked dinner, slept, saw nico, slept, went to the lake, slept, partied, slept.
- When we arrived at the train station, Nico was already there to welcome us with hugs and kisses. So properly European. He then proceed on giving us a purse full of Swiss franks and ushered us ourside to go explore the city while he went back to work. He took a long lunch break just to welcome us to Geneva. The sweet man.
- Went to paquis beach, which was technically not a beach cuz instead of sand, it has rocks. Switzs have a weird definition of what a beach is. We had delicious smoked salmon there for lunch ( except for Neha cuz she doesnt eat seafood. Weird girl. She's missing out on life)
- Then, the whole getting to nico's place fiasco occurred. Nico had an important presentation to make that day to the CEO of PrivatAir. To his and our dismay, it was delayed. A lot. We didn't know where he lives so we basically spent the most part of the our late afternoon, late evening waiting for Nico to finish his presentation. Played phone tag for a bit. Waited outside of his workplace for a bit . No biggy. It was fine. He aced his presentation.
- when we finally got to his place, we had barbecue for dinner. Mei did an awesome job grilling. Andrea and Shivani made mean salads and baked veggies. Dinner was great.
- oh, yea, btw, Nico lives in France and works in Geneva. Blows my mind.
- Also, Nico is THE MAN for letting us stay in his awesomely modern apartment ( honestly, it's a techie den. He has an irobot that sweeps
his floor when he's away. He had a Dyson air multiplier... His apartment is basically a mini Apple store...). it's safe to say that we all liked his place.
-Jake wants to be Nico when he grows up. If he ever.
- 2nd day in Geneva: we tried to explore the old part of Geneva. We were eh, not really successful cuz we had no destination in mind. We ended up playing like children on a playground. Then we had nothing better to do so we went back to the 'beach'. Jake and Neha went there first. The rest of the group went on a boat tour on the lake before joining Jake and Neha in the beach.
- boat tour was fun and relaxing. Saw the house of the guy who invented colgate, among other things.
- chilled at the beach.
- I almost drown in the beach. Had a cram on my leg while swimming to a nearby barge... Gah, scared me shitless.
- We had cheese fondue for dinner that night.
- 3rd day was rest day. Shivani, Andrea and I opted to stay home while the rest of the group went up some hill to see the alps. But they didn't see the Alps. So, they went ahead and had classy beer. (this is what happened according to Jake ). I was sick and had to miss out on this fun trip.
-4th day: CERN day!!
- we went to CERN to try and see the particle accelerator. But that didn't work out since you had to book a tour a month or two beforehand. We did see 2 exhibitions and learned about antimatter and the universe.
- We got ticketed for riding the tram without paying. We= everyone else but me cuz I was lucky and found a ticket somebody left in the ticket machine.... Haha
- Cool fact: Nico's apt was built on top of the particle accelerator.
- We brought a little bit of our 'TXB ballroom craziness' to Geneva. Truth or dare anyone?
- We cooked dinner almost every night. Deliciousness ensued.
- We partied at nico's place almost every night.
- everyone kissed everyone....It was a big orgie, weeeehhhhhhh !!!!!!! Just kidding. No, not kidding. No, really, just kiddin
- SHOUT OUT TO NICO ----- Thank you sooo much for letting us stay in your apartment!! It was great catching up with you. I can't beleive that it's been 3 years since I've seen you! See you again in 3 years! Stay in touch!!!
- I'm sleepy.



Peace out.