time for some ice cream

i'm having fun! met a bunch of people last night from all over, including my first sb! haha. we went to see war of the worlds. i wasn't really paying attention because i was trying to read the double (german & french) subtitles the whole time. and i was introduced to a truly bizarre swiss custom: they abruptly stop movies in the middle -- sometimes even mid-sentence, i hear -- and you see a little commercial for ice cream, followed by a 10 minute intermission! apparently, this is truly tragic when the movie is good. but it seems to work -- of the four of us, two people got ice cream!

it was a fun night full of firsts. first tram ride, first time down the city's main street, first time seeing the river and the lake, first time walking around the city at night, first time ordering at a restaurant, first time going out (bar then jazz club),... this bee is coming out of retirement!