things I learned while in Geneva
I will get around to writing about Geneva. There is quite a lot to say about it, but I was too exhausted and too far behind in my studies during the four months to really update my journal. But I did want to have a list of stuff I learned while I was in Geneva.
Artists
Fernando Botero
Amedeo Modigliani
Agustin Bejarano
Antoni Gaudí
Alexander Calder
Food
blanquette de veau: a white spring stew and I seriously want to learn to make this.
fondant de chocolat: a dense chocolate cake (not quite a brownie), soooo good, also want to learn to make this.
Learned how to eat dark chocolate. I never liked it until Geneva.
raclette: scrapped cheese. I actually ate this once before, but learned to really love it. I like it so much better than fondue, which is pretty disgusting.
magret de canard/saumon--learned the best main courses to order on a French menu is either the duck or the salmon.
That food in Riomaggiore have a Celtic bent.
Citrusy sodas in Geneva and Italy--tastes better than anything we have here in the States.
Misc.
Schtroumpfs--what the French called Smurfs; the name is actually Flemish. Dom gave me a bande dessinée of the Schtroumpfs when I left.
To correctly roll my French R's.
Learned to swear in French, a useful skill
That the Swiss are awful drivers
If I were to have a city be a physical representative of my soul, it would be Barcelona.
That I am tired of going to Amsterdam--good thing my ex is moving to another country.
ICRC
That the U.S. is so far behind in the realm of Human Rights as compared to the rest of the world and would probably always be. And we don't believe in socio-economic Human Rights. We only focus on political ones.
That the rest of the world is kinda lazy and unmotivated to lead on globalized issues and relies on the U.S.
People
Sergio Vieira de Mello--kinda knew of him before, but really learned about him while I was there and visited his grave.
Jacques de Maio--I have a huge crush on this guy.
Henri Dunant
That I admire foreign ministers of Russia (Sergei Lavrov) and the UK (David Miliband) more than our own.
Jorge Luis Borges
Andrew Clapham--he's my Human Rights prof. I will be reading more of his books.
Artists
Fernando Botero
Amedeo Modigliani
Agustin Bejarano
Antoni Gaudí
Alexander Calder
Food
blanquette de veau: a white spring stew and I seriously want to learn to make this.
fondant de chocolat: a dense chocolate cake (not quite a brownie), soooo good, also want to learn to make this.
Learned how to eat dark chocolate. I never liked it until Geneva.
raclette: scrapped cheese. I actually ate this once before, but learned to really love it. I like it so much better than fondue, which is pretty disgusting.
magret de canard/saumon--learned the best main courses to order on a French menu is either the duck or the salmon.
That food in Riomaggiore have a Celtic bent.
Citrusy sodas in Geneva and Italy--tastes better than anything we have here in the States.
Misc.
Schtroumpfs--what the French called Smurfs; the name is actually Flemish. Dom gave me a bande dessinée of the Schtroumpfs when I left.
To correctly roll my French R's.
Learned to swear in French, a useful skill
That the Swiss are awful drivers
If I were to have a city be a physical representative of my soul, it would be Barcelona.
That I am tired of going to Amsterdam--good thing my ex is moving to another country.
ICRC
That the U.S. is so far behind in the realm of Human Rights as compared to the rest of the world and would probably always be. And we don't believe in socio-economic Human Rights. We only focus on political ones.
That the rest of the world is kinda lazy and unmotivated to lead on globalized issues and relies on the U.S.
People
Sergio Vieira de Mello--kinda knew of him before, but really learned about him while I was there and visited his grave.
Jacques de Maio--I have a huge crush on this guy.
Henri Dunant
That I admire foreign ministers of Russia (Sergei Lavrov) and the UK (David Miliband) more than our own.
Jorge Luis Borges
Andrew Clapham--he's my Human Rights prof. I will be reading more of his books.