“If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?” - Tom Snyder

The client where I have been working this week is a private school in the Geneva area. It is an international school and teaches grades K-12. It has been a little strange to hear English, American English, in the hallways since it makes me forget that I am not at home. When I go to eat lunch in the cafeteria, however, I am reminded.

There are two main dish options at every lunch, a meat item and a pasta item. I have been here three days this week, and the meat selections so far – keep in mind this is for a school of 2500 kids from 5-18, have been beef (normal enough), lamb, and rabbit. No chicken nuggets here.

Can’t think of a segue between these two topics, you’ll see why in a moment…

I am working with two people from the Zurich office right now, and today I said the word “dork”, referring to myself of course. I had to explain the word, and one of the people decided to look it up on google. I had a really hard time explaining that the word is actually not that mean and not a swear word when she found the real definition. Words become very strange when you have to explain them to someone else… “no, it’s really okay that I just called myself a whale male member…”.

Now I’m sure you understand why I had trouble with that transition.