Today I am moving out of my apartment. I am headed to the Cite Universitaire, which is a student housing area with two buildings of student dormitories and one building of shared apartments. I will be moving into the building of shared apartments. Hopefully my roommates will be fun, nice, clean people.
Recently, I learned something that I thought was pretty funny. Here in Switzerland they do not believe in the Tooth Fairy. Still, they do believe that when a child loses a tooth, someone does come to take the tooth from under the pillow. However, instead of being a fairy, they believe that a little mouse comes to take the tooth in exchange for a Swiss franc or two. I think I would prefer to imagine a fairy in my room rather than a mouse.
The weather is really cooling off here. I am unaccustomed to wearing pants and a coat in late August, but that has been the case lately. I guess the months of September and October are pretty ugly and rainy. People cannot seem to believe this when I tell them, but I am actually looking forward to having a real winter this year. I know that I will probably regret saying this by Thanksgiving, but it gets old having sun and warm weather 24/7 like I had in Miami.
Tomorrow I am going to Venice with Ana. We will be staying with her grandparents Wednesday and Thursday night and going into the city on Thursday. I am excited to visit Venice. The first time I came to Europe I made a list of my top 10 European cities I wanted to visit, and I think Venice and Dublin are the only ones I have still not visited. I will be sure to take plenty of pictures in Venice.
Speaking of pictures, I have found that Europeans do not smile big, toothy smiles for pictures. While it is the custom for many Americans to show off their pearly whites in photos, Europeans think this is strange. Instead, they prefer to show a small, toothless grin for pictures. I refuse to conform to this, though, so I will continue to show big, toothy smiles. Maybe this is a result of Europeans lacking the same dental hygiene that we are accustomed to in America. That is the theory with which I am sticking.
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