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My Day of Love in Switzerland

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Valentine's Day is a celebration of love observed on February 14 each year. It is a day where people exhibit love in different ways. Every year, irrespective of my relationship status :P, I start the day by wishing my dad and mom, expressing my undying love for them and telling them how important they are for me and our family.   Many around the globe celebrate the day as the day of romance. In Switzerland like elsewhere, people celebrate the day with flowers, chocolates, fancy cards with loving words and functional gifts, Plus romantic trips, romantic walks, romantic meals. Well, all these have the potential of making the heart skip a few beats (esp. a heart like mine :P). The Zurich Lake I spent my Valentine’s Day in Zurich. Zurich is a beautiful and the largest city of Switzerland, the first city of Switzerland I know, my love for Switzerland started with Zurich, so I chose Zurich for this delightful day. After almost 3 hrs of our train journey, we reached

Lausanne, Vevey and Montreux, Switzerland

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After a heavy hectic week, I was excited about the weekend, actually I always am, esp. the weekends here in Geneva, I get to visit new places and explore new things. I had promised myself before I came here that I am never going to stay idle in the room during the weekends, thus I am fulfilling my promise very dutifully, so to say ;)  The weekend of February 7, we had planned to visit the three beautiful cities of Switzerland ~ Lausanne, Vevey and Montreux.   We were counselled exhaustively by the course coordinators to travel to unfamiliar places only in  groups. I had to listen to the same advices from my family almost every time. We were five at the start of the plan though. The guide, who is a sweet friend of mine, who lives in Geneva, caught a very bad flu, so she had informed us about her unavailability about a week earlier. Thus, four of us were left. An another friend was invited over by his national friends to visit some other places, he deceived (:P) us for the

How to get rid of Homesickness?

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Wiki defines ``Homesickness as the distress or impairment caused by an actual or anticipated separation from home. Its cognitive hallmark is preoccupying thoughts of home and attachment objects.``  Well homesickness as is self-explanatory from the above definition, a form of anxiety or emotional distress that results from feeling disconnected from home, family, familiar people and environment. I am usually one of its victims. Well, homesickness is not a bad disease though, but can be bad if you don’t take care of your emotions well.   Whenever, I am away from home, I have difficulty in adjusting to a new environment, I start feeling lonely and cut off from my regular livelihood and I start missing home too much. However, with time I adjust well in the environment and I start having fun :) Well, how do I do it? Here are some tips if you are prone to homesickness:         1.      Change your environment, make it as homely as possible:       The first weekend of my sta