-Have a picturesque landing at the airport and have a bunch of people clap their hands after a 10 hour flight!
-Get picked up at the airport by 2 guys with almost identical Bally bags and a cute girl, on their way to work!
-Get introduced to the family of friends and have them take you around for sightseeing while the said friends go off to work on the same day.
-Learn to take the public transport at the new locality.....and boy, you'll learn what an efficient system they have!
-Soak in the sunny weather....which went up as high as 35 degrees at times!(aarrghhh!after the scorching experience in India this should be nothing!)
-Read a book or write your journal by a lake.....and people watch!
-Get hit on by white guys who think the local girls are way too snooty and bollywood dancing cool....ehm ehhm.
-Have salad for lunch.
-.....more salad for dinner!
-Water the plants in the garden of your host.....in between snooze on their garden sundeck of course!
-Eat CHEESE!Yummy!
-Eat even more salad!
-Go out with friends of your friends.....getting to know new people is always fun!
-Oh, yeah.....take your friend's godchildren to the park and play with them and have the little one go tirelessly over and over their slide which has an exceedingly tedious and dangerous set of steps leading up.
-Drive by the countryside and take in all that breathtaking view...ahhh one could get heady just by that!
-Have a romantic dinner nearby a pier and watch all the rich and ?famous parade themselves...some of them quite bizzare!!!(Wow it must be sooo cool to arrive at a dinner on a speed boat which a lot of people do!)
-Watch wild swans gliding gracefully everywhere there is a patch of water.
-Freeze your butt on a mountain and get swollen fingers,nose and ears!
-See how cheese is made.....and any other milk products for that matter and how hard the cows have to work for it.....literally stuffing themselves on green grass halfway up the mountain!
-Get your tourguide to stop along the countryside for a little run and spin on the grassfields ala 'sound of music'....(must make sure the background is scenic and get your tourguide to take a few snaps as well (as proof that you've been there and done that!)
-Eat more salad...(this time with stinky cheesy which actually tastes yummy and maybe some dates as well.....mmmmm!)
-Have Shoreley everyday!
-Climb up and down Brunner Investment's 4th floor almost every other day.....and make sure one still looks pretty and presentable after 4 flights of steps before ringing the doorbell.
-Get drenched in the rain....and freeze your butt a little.
-Look longingly at the ferriswheel everyday but never get on it till the very end!
-Walk the whole stretch of Bahnhoffstrasse and window shop and try desperately to curb your spending habits.
-Never try to read anything in English....you won't find 'English' anywhere anyway!
-Walk the streets in the evening and enjoy every minute of it!
-Check out cool watchshoppes.
-Be a lucky mascot for your friend on a shopping expedition where he gets not one but two designer suits his size just because you wanted a brownie!!
-Go swim in the fresh and clear waters of a lake which apparently has drinkable water quality! and eat veal sausages with Rossti....yummy!
-Get tickets to an awesome Rolling Stones concert with a spectacular airshow prior to that....oh also have guys over 6 feet block any view of the Stones and have 60 thousand people from all over Switzerland gather at a muddy airstrip for the show.
-Lapsit!!!!!
-Eat all you want as much as you want at a national day brunch at your new locality, in a barnhouse!
-Go to the Victorinox factory......and not buy a victorinox cause you already have tooo many thanks to daddy!
-Visit an old, cold and wet bunker and have a wonderful guide take you around....and almost get locked in at the 'watchout' point!
-Make yourself sick on a windy road up a hill so that you can have yummy, witch's seasoned chicken which you eat with your bare hands and have the witch cackle away in the background.....and get even more sick by having people around you puff away on their ciggies.
-Smell the wonderful sweet taste of chocolates from the chocolate factory everytime you passby on a bus!Yummmmmm..
-Get a cuckoo bird....or a clock.....or both rolled into one!
-Serenade yourselves at an open air classical concert in the park in the evening....Beautiful!
-Play a strategic cardboard game with a bunch of foreigners who are sweet enough to guide you along the way....even though they know you are gonna be the obvious loser in the end!And you better be gracious about it!
-Visit one of the oldest libraries in the world.
-Visit an ancient cloister and get to experience an actual mass with haunting but beautiful choir in the background as well.
-Eat Movenpick or Ben&Jerry's ice cream almost every other day!
-Eat salad.....yes more salad with your salad loving friend who makes good salad dressing!
-Cry all the way home to Asia.....and have an Italian who can't speak any English sit next to you on the return flight.