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Yet another week of internship passed smoothly.  There’s been a number of new cases, and I’ve been working through the cases that I was given in my first week. I attended part of the Global Commodities Forum and we presented the annual report at the 13th session of the UN Human Rights Council. I took notes, got confused when people asked things in French, and wore my snazzy UN badge. We applied for accreditation for me to attend the Committee Against Torture session at the end of April. It lasts from April 26 to May 14, and obviously my internship ends April 30th, so I will only attend part of that if I get approved.

The Alesch Glacier – Europe’s Longest Glacier

In fun news, last weekend, Adrianna, Mike and I went to see the Aletsch Glacier, Europe’s longest glacier. Danielle was supposed to go also, but she rolled out her hip and was in massive amounts of pain because the clinic kept insisting she had just sprained the muscle, and then they refused to give her painkillers because she didn’t buy them immediately after getting checked out (they are expensive!).  So the three of us took the train from Geneva to Fiesch, this town halfway across the country, in the middle of the Alps. In Fiesch, we basked in the sun – I’m not joking, the sun was out and warm, and we took off our jackets and sunbathed – ate lunch, and were slightly disappointed to find out that the weather conditions would not allow for paragliding (which was originally part of the reason to go to Aletsch).  However, thanks to our Half-Fare travelcard, it was only CHF 20 to take the cable car up to Eggishorn, the highest point, from Fiesch. The sun had burned off much of the fog, so we had some breathtakingly beautiful views of the glacier and of the mountains from the top of the world.

View at Eggishorn – 2,927 meters, or roughly 9,600 ft – Aletsch Glacier

Mike and Me

After taking our heart’s content of pictures, we went into the little restaurant for hot chocolate and a snack.  Adrianna got a platter of local cheese and bread that randomly came with mustard.  It tasted great though, and the hot chocolate warmed us up enough to get us back down the mountain.

Adrianna and Me

It was 5 pm by this point, and as per European tradition, no restaurants were open for dinner until 6 pm.  Mike had a good idea of taking the train back to Brig, a town located an hour in the direction of Geneva, and finding dinner there.  So we took the train to Brig, got there around 6 pm, and found a restaurant with nice Swiss-German food and decided the prices weren’t lethal and we’d eat there.  I ended up getting a DECILIOUS meal for CHF 20 which just doesn’t happen in Geneva.

Mike’s bratwurst and potato hashbrown thing and Schneider Weisse

Adrianna’s tortellini in cream sauce

My basil pesto spaghetti deliciousness

Even though we didn’t end up paragliding, we had a wonderful day. It was nice to get out of the city with good company and experience a new place that captured my heart wholly and completely.

<3 the Mountains…

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