In the early morning hours of Tuesday, June 6, Elizabeth's political science class boarded a 3 hour high-speed train to Switzerland, arriving around 9am in Geneva. After dropping their bags at the hotel, they rode the tram into Geneva's international district where they met with a representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the afternoon. They engaged in a lengthy discussion of the history of WHO, its core values and missions, as well as an in-depth look into the international affects of the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines.
This was the first of 5 meetings over the next three days: on Wednesday, they met with a communications offers from the World Trade Organization, followed by a meeting with admissions representatives at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Interdisciplinary Studies. On Thursday, they met with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, followed immediately by a tour of the United Nations Headquarters.
This class trip to Switzerland was packed with official meetings and tours, however, some time was allotted for exploration of the city. Elizabeth and her friends managed to accidentally stumble upon the oldest restaurant in Geneva for dinner, sampled Swiss chocolate from various chocolatiers, and swam in Lake Geneva.
She found that the train rides in and out of Switzerland provided the most breathtaking views of the trip. While Geneva was an excellent city for us nerdy political science majors, it is certainly not as photogenic as the mountains and rivers the rain passed.
Overall, Switzerland was incredibly educational, beautiful, and definitely flew by quick! Now it's back to Paris for one more day, then the back-to-back journey to Belgium, The Netherlands, German, Poland and the Czech Republic begins.
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