Arrived!

Here I am in Geneva! Plane rides were uneventful. The Frankfurt airport is massive...took me about 30-45 mins to get from my first plane to the second (and there weren't even lineups at passport control and the security check). You don't really appreciate the scale of it all from the picture...but it was a very long terminal!















On the way to Geneva the plane flew over Lake Geneva and it was beautiful! Here is a view of the famous Jet d'Eau on arrival in Geneva. I can also see the very top of the Jet d'Eau (though it's quite far away) from my residence room.















At the airport you can get a free ticket for 80 minutes on the entire transit network in Geneva, so I was able to lug my stuff onto a train and tram to get to the residence. The residence itself is very nice and clean. Here are pictures of my room and the view from my room:



























View looking left











View looking straight ahead











View looking right






Other interesting things to note:
- they do my laundry here at the residence...so I had to label all of my undergarments with a permanent marker (the regular clothing I will just have to sort through and pick out my own)
- the laundry room here smells like the laundry room from my residence in France...but does not smell like laundry in Canada
- the grounded electrical outlets here are not like the one in France...luckily I have an adapter that kind of fits but it's not grounded and doesn't fit into all of the (diamond-shaped) plugs here!
- the washroom consists of a toilet and a bidet (and a sink)
- toilet paper here is coloured (yellow!)
- pillows are square here - not rectangular

And now...dinnertime! Soon I will venture outside, if I don't fall asleep first!