I hope you don’t mind the get-it-as-it-comes approach, but I’m finding it easier to sit down and write what I feel like writing about rather than worrying about chronological order. Friday I most stayed at home doing some work in the morning, then I went for a walk to the local free zoo with Stephan and Tamino.
It was a small zoo that I didn’t find very interesting until we got to the Äffen (moneys). They were climbing all over their fun play house and there was even a baby monkey clinging to the back of his mother. We watched for quite a while and I didn’t grow tired of watching them moneys interact and care for each other.
I went to Migros and managed to ask and receive garbage bags. Collections fees are paid in the price of the bag, as it is in Japan. It’s a rather clever way of distributing the cost fairly I say!
In the evening I went to an ancestors of the oboe recital put on by the community school associated with the Musik-Schule. Some of them were quite good! I later found out that often Schola students take secondary instruments at the community school for fun.
Apparently we had an earthquake Friday night (I think). The interesting part of that news is that it wasn’t an act of God, but rather the result of geological work some Swiss company had done a month or so ago. They pumped water in to the earth (near the city!) and cracked some layer and there have been earthquakes ever since. Fun, but I slept through it.
Today is Sunday and I slept until 9pm(!) since I was up late at the party. I caught the tram into town for the 11am service at St. Leonhard church near the Schola. As with the other church loud bells welcomed people until the service began at exactly 11am.
2007-02-04 Leonhard's church bells.mpg
I had a harder time following this service, but it was almost exactly the same format. Prelude at 11am, welcome, sing, one reading, sing, a sermon (moderate length), sing, closing remarks, sing, sit still for the postlude. The Lord’s Prayer is in there somewhere, too. I find it to be rather uninspiring, but then again, I can’t really understand what’s going on. The organ was very impressive, though and this time there were about 30 people in the congregation.
I took the tram home and had lunch with the family. I made my first amount of food to share of potato salad. I miss Japanese mayonnaise, but it came out alright anyway.
That’s it for now. Hope everyone is well.
