Monday, October 11th

This morning we had Marie Pascal from Credit Agricole come and present to us in Leysin. She presented on hedge funds and investment banking. It was interesting to learn more about this field as I don't know very much regarding these topics.

We were on our own for lunch and a number of us headed to the little Co-op Grocery Store in town. I bought a jar of Nutella and a baguette. I know we have Nutella in the states, but combined with the great tasting baked good over here it is AMAZING!

Jill took this picture of Luci, Andrew, and Jessica eating lunch, but pay attention to the staples of life on the table: bananas, a jar of Nutella, a baguette, and Swiss chocolate...

When we got back from lunch we were supposed to have a workshop session, but we ended up getting free time to work on our projects. I mainly focused on setting up this blog and recording some thoughts and impressions of things I've noticed that are different here.

"Working" on our projects! AKA hanging out....

We all got back together for dinner and after dinner all of us went curling. Dominique takes the visitors from his hotel curling every week at the local ice sheet. It was funny because when we got there and he was sharing with us how to play he described curling as "challenging and fun"....wo adjectives I never would have associated it with.

We all broke off into four different teams and played each other. I was surprised to find as we began playing both of Dominique's adjectives were true. It was very challenging try to get your stone to go at the right speed, but not too fast and then coordinate with the sweepers to get it on the target. And yet very fun at the same time. We played for several hours and all of us really got into it. We ended up creating a bit of a tournament and one team took the victory. My team unfortunately was the losing, losing team. (We lost against both the first and second teams we played) It was funny too because my team was made up of several very athletic and competitive guys...and we lost! It was a nice, fun, relaxing day!