Wednesday, July 2, 2008

May 21, 2008

Day 5

Things that fascinate us on this trip:
  • having to pay for the "water closet"
  • seeing people in fields picking things. By hand.
  • everyone driving small compact cars
  • most people being bilingual
  • the amount of mopeds and bicycles in Geneva
  • bicycles--and cars--driving on sidewalks
  • pedestrians do NOT have the right of way
  • the gracious and helpful people
  • no screens on windows...why???
  • the Alps
  • no air conditioning
  • the price of food...and gas
  • Swiss chocolat
  • seeing George Clooney in a windowfront in a watch advertisement
  • tunnels so long that even Rachel can't hold her breath all the way through them
  • the trees
  • not having clothes dryers

Some things are awe-some, some things are "you've got to be kidding me!" It amazes me how indulgent our culture is. How much we expect--how much we take for granted. Things I've never thought about actually being a luxury--not a necessity. I expected to find some of these things in third world countries, but not here. But we really are so pampered as a whole--we don't even think about it.

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