Today was my first day! I didn't start until 2pm (the admin person said so, for reasons still unknown since another girl started today in the morning). As it turns out there are multiple WHO buildings, but I managed to walk into the main building. Got my badge and found my team in a separate building. All of the buildings are connected by tunnels, which is good because my badge only lets me in the main door of the main building (where you show your badge to enter), while all the other doors require the badge to have some sort of code put onto it. Took a tour of the buildings - there is a magnificent view of the city from the top floor of the main building (I'll take a picture soon). One side of the main building faces the lake and the other side faces the mountains...it's pretty sweet. However I am in a different building and the window of the room that I'm currently in faces a bush and the permanent mission of the US (I think). But I'm not complaining!
In other news, this morning I went roaming around downtown, which was quite nice. I found an adapter to allow me to plug into the three pronged diamond Swiss plugs. There are no Swiss-North America plugs, so I found a Swiss-France/Germany plug, and plug my France-North America adapter into it. Not the most elegant solution but it works!
I bought my first thing of Swiss cheese today as well...it was very yummy. Not quite as cheap as in France (I think anyway) but it's still better (and probably cheaper) than at home. Also, while in general things here are more expensive here than at home, there is one exception (other than the cheese). I bought some shoe polish today - actually the exact same as what I would have purchased at home - and I'm pretty sure it's cheaper. But I haven't found much else yet that is cheaper.
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