Today Andy and I were assigned tour guides of the day. Andy made sure that by 6:05am everyone was awake. At 7:00am we all met in the lobby for breakfast. At 8:00 am we met Sophie in the lobby to present her with some Thank You gifts for the students and the professors, and at 8:15am our lesson with Mr. Beat Wicki began. It looked like a sleep fest in the classroom, everyone kept falling asleep, I will not lie, I caught myself nodding away a couple of times.

At 12:15pm we had our last lunch together as a group. Following lunch we went to a GEVAG, one of Switzerland’s waste burning facilities and were given a tour of the facility by Mr. Francois Boone, who is the General Manager. During the tour Mr. Boone showed us how the trash is delivered, sorted and crushed in the compactor before it’s burned. Also we were able to see how the trash is converted into energy and deposited into the river as clean water. Once we completed our 2 hour tour of the waste facility, we went to a water sewage facility. We even saw that they store dead animals there. The tour was a little gross but cool.

After the waste facility tour was completed, Mr. Wicki and Sophie took us out for a traditional Switzerland farewell dinner, which involved a cable tram ride up a very high mountain, cows, a view of the beautiful Swiss mountains and some fabulous cheese fondue with potatoes, pineapples and bread. The “Cheese Fondue” was hot, cheesy and very tasty and the group conversation was even better. I really did enjoy myself in spite of that fact that I was full of “cheese” and still a little hungry afterwards. Once we arrived at SSTH around 9:30pm, I was full of energy once again and immediately started packing my clothes and books for out official last days in Switzerland. I have never packed my clothing so quick in my life; I guess I’m really anxious to be going home. We now only have two more days left in Switzerland. I think it’s time for bed.