Walked from the hotel all the way up the UN. We went to a restaurant called the Roman mainly because they had a sign saying they took Visa and we had no francs yet. I had a croissant. It was obviously more of a place where middle aged business/diplomat UN men go to eat because we were the only women and the only ones not of that age and appearance. It was all good though. Outside there were reserved parking spots for the people from different countries. We went back to the UN and saw all the flags of the nations. Also a series of cool fountains that went up and down and did funny waves. Beautiful different colored marble in the ground underneath. We walked back to the hotel because I forgot the directions to the Geneva Smith Center where we were meeting Kelly. We walked all the way over along a pretty lake with boats and the huge famous fountain (although it was wasn't spewing while we were going by they had it off). We went into the Smith Center. Kelly let us in and we registered for classes and checked email until her class was done. Angie (a friend of Kelly's who goes to Northwestern but is on the Smith program in Geneva) came with us to lunch. We walked up this big hill into the old historical part of the city. We had lunch at Chez ma Cousine. I had a thai chicken salad with soy noodles, tomato, lettuce, and chicken with a sort of salsa tomato salad dressing on top. It was so nice catching up with Kelly and gossiping about rooms for next year and Smith profs and friends.
We walked down to the lake to try and see the fountain but it wasn't on. We then went along this shopping road called Ribe. Lots of stores with fancy watches, Swiss Army knives, clothes, electronics etc.
We took the tram up to Kelly's apartment. She has a one room dorm place with a kitchen and bathroom down the hall. She cooks all her meals for herself.
Nearby there was a garden with large waist height chess sets. People were there playing. There was also a wall with the Lords Prayer in many different languages that had been built in the mid 1500s. There was a statue of a queen who made soup and dumped in out the window onto the enemy soldiers during a war. Every November there is a day to remeber this and a huge chocolate bowl with marzipan vegetables inside is made. April Fools in Switzerland is called the Day of the fish and people put up paper fish around.
We went to a market and got really delicious swiss chocolate and stuff for dinner to eat on the train. We got on the train to paris without any difficulties except being told by a guard not to sit up against the wall on the ground and listen to Seinfeld comedy acts on Elizabeth's iPod.