Obviously we met Swiss people before, engaged in small conversations..well, at least me because my German is limited plus I currently do not work. My husband (uhh strange to say it) works with Swiss people plus interacts with MANY on daily basis and he has great experience. We more or less met our neighbors although the welcome apero that we are supposed to do has not happened yet (mainly because we are still out of some furniture and nowhere to sit really).
This weekend though, one of our neighbors organized the yearly Halloween get together. We really looked forward attending because we were really curious who live here. The only thing we basically knew that this place is a really Swiss one with only a really small number of non Swiss. And that's actually true. Turned out, we were the only non-Swiss:)
As a preparation, I read forums and talked to people about how Swiss behave in a social setting what the taboo topics are and what they like to talk about etc. Interestingly, during the conversations those topics came up such as money, occupation and how we ended up in the neighborhood. I was amazed! On one hand they are easy to talk to them and yes, they keep things to themselves and really private (no surprise here) but they are just simply curious people as everyone else in the planet. After we went home we were discussing how the evening went and both of us were super amazed. Actually we had a great time, met with nice people and was so much fun to get an insight in this culture. And after two months in Switzerland I can say I like it here.
And that's today's view:
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