Bonjour geneve!
So after a very long trip I arrived in Geneva! The weather is great and the city (judging from the little I’ve seen) is beautiful! The trip was quite interesting. It started off with my train being 20 minutes late and me worrying about missing the next train in Basel. When it finally arrived there was no space to put my two very heavy suitcases so I had to find someone who opened a little room and look them in there to keep them safe. When I went to get off the train this morning I couldn’t open the door which resulted in me missing the train in Basel even though I arrived on time. The next one left 25 minutes later but it wasn’t a direct train to Geneva so I had to switch in Bern. Everyone was really lovely though and helped me with my things. Eventually I arrived at the train station in Geneva and got lost. Obviously that was going to happen to me. So I wandered around aimlessly for a few minutes until I decided to ask for directions. However, the person I decided to ask turned out to be an english tourist who was as confused as I was. So I wandered around a bit more and I must have looked really lost and out of place because suddenly this guy walks up to me and asks me in english “are you lost?“ He ended up helping me carry one of my bags, taking me to the ticket office to get a monthly transport ticket and he then walked me all the way to my bus stop. He was really nice and I would have been completely lost if he hadn’t helped. I then took the bus which stopped right outside my accommodation where I had to sign a few things and get my key. I’m now sitting in my room and just finished unpacking. The room is much nicer than I expected and has so much storage space it looks empty because my things didn’t even fill up half of the shelves! I’m just waiting for 3pm when I am meeting some other erasmus students to go have a look around the city. I’m really excited. The people here so far have been really lovely, helpful and patient. The woman in the ticket office was really nice and answered all my questions and didn’t look at me funny when she realised my french isn’t amazing. It made me relax a little. I don’t have proper internet right now so I can’t post any photos yet. But hopefully this will be resolved on thursday in the induction session we’re having so I will hopefully have internet in two days time. Well I better get going as it’s almost 3pm.