Three things that surprised me about Switzerland.

I've been living in Switzerland for six months now. A year ago Laura and I had first started dating and I came to Switzerland to check it out. See what this place was all about, and visit Laura. Here are three things that relay surprised me. Number one. When I 1st came it was early Spring. Lara was telling me how great the snow was. She was like you definitely need to bring your snowboard. So I bring my snowboarding in all the other gear. And the plane lands in zurich. And I get off the plane look around and it's all green grass birds singing no snow anywhere to be seen. And I'm like this girl just catfish me with her country. I don't know what I expected maybe some snow some people skiing and some reindeer. At least that's what's going on in the picture books. Reindeers really? Cows yeah but reindeer? As it turns out there are a lot of valleys in Switzerland that do not get a lot of snow. Grass does not grow a lot in the Winter but it stays pretty green. If you want to know you just go up. It's pretty crazy. Fairies like A-line on one side of the line there is green grass and on the other side there is snow. Just cross over that line and you can go Skiing. There are actually gone to us that when you get on it's all green grass and when you get off there is like 2' of snow It's pretty crazy. I guess everywhere I've lived before It's either cold or snowy or its warm the elevation doesn't make that much difference. So that actually kind of surprised me. Number two. Before I came to Switzerland I had been told that Europeans follow American politics but I had no idea. The Swiss follow American politics news all of that like it is the next episode of the bachelor. Not only to the Swiss follow American politics and they're also more than happy to give you their opinion on American politics. If you tell somebody you are an American 9 times out of 10 the 1st thing they're going to say is what you think about trump. It's like Hey I just left America I don't wanna hear about trump every day. Sam setting in my German class next to this guy from Somalia Now classes in session and we're supposed to be doing our work. And I'm like what the heck. I see this video and it is Nancy Pelosi ripping up at Donald Trump's speech. This guy is from Somalia he doesn't even speak English like why do you even care. Do you even know these people are. If you're an American out there just know before the next time you Throw a tantrum because some store won't let you buy 400 mountain dews. Switzerland is watching you. Number 3 in the US it is residential building code That all residential Exterior doors can be unlocked without a key. So they have some sort of knobs some sort of latch something like that. But in Switzerland your exterior doors require a key till unlock Them from the outside and from the inside it's pretty much identical on both sides. Now you're thinking this guy needs to get a hobby but hang in there. So I was a paramedic in the US so this is one of those things that is beat into your head You have to pay attention to the scene around you so you don't get trapped In somebody's House with a crazy guy with a batt. So it's just one of those things that I started noticing going and that of houses what kind of lock was on that door could That door be locked behind me. So when I came to Switzerland that's one of the 1st things I noticed. Is that I could be locked in every house. And that's kind of weird. And if you think about it there are a lot of ramifications for that. If there is a fire and the door is locked and the key is placed somewhere where you can't find it or your kid can't reach it somebody could get locked inside of a burning house. And that is pretty surprising to me. The only reason I can think of would be if you are trying to lock somebody into the house. Help me