Saturday, November 21, 2009

Fondue Swiss Style

Yesterday I attended a conference about "Renewing the Western Community." It was put on by Webster and mediated by a professor here. They had some great speakers from all over the globe. My favorite part was the conclusion when the mediator, a Hungarian immigrant to the US, and now professor here, went on a tangent and pretty much attacked everyone sitting around him. He had the Japanese ambassador to his right and a Swiss professor to his left and I quote "Europeans and the Japanese need to be more like the Americans." It was hilarious.

(skate ramp in Plain Palais.)

After getting home from the conference, we quickly changed and met up with everyone for our dinner reservations at 8. It was a busy restaurant not far from our apartments in Plain Palais. We ordered 6 pots of fondue!! Some steak and some cheese. I haven't eaten steak since I've been here and it was delicious! I miss meat!

The meat is brought out raw and cooked in the oil in front of you.

Over-indulgence :)

The group from Tomasso's POV

We all over-indulged and enjoyed ourselves. It was AMAZING! Everything got eaten :) The restaurant owners were Italian so we finished the meal with a round of limoncellos. Soo good.

Megan, Roberto and Me

Afterward we went to Cafe De La Presse and had drinks. It turned into an interesting night with a group of dancing men surrounding my chair in the middle of the floor and another shirtless man dancing on the bar. Imagine a classy wine bar with dark wood and church pews for seating. Not what I expected from the night, but fun either way!

xoxo
A

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