It's Good to Be Back!!! - Part 2

Geneva, Switzerland

After spending the weekend resting and waking up late in the morning, I packed my bags again and head back to the airport on the 11^th of June. The next destination was Geneva where the bi-annual 2-day CSI Technical Seminar was held.

Geneva is a resort city with calm lake and surrounding green hills and vineyard and with a fantastic view of the peaks of French Alps. It is known for being the base of many international organizations and headquarters to most of United Nations’ agencies.

Jet d'Eau - Symbol of Geneva

View from my hotel window

having a break

This time the trip was exciting since I was travelling with colleagues and met a lot more from other countries in the seminar. It was a venue to share work experiences especially with new colleagues coming from the other partner company (whom my parent company merged with). It was more like blending together Finnish and German work culture and learn from it.

Interestingly, I met a Filipina (who works for United Nations, Cool!) through an Indonesian colleague who has lived in the city before while working for ITU. It appears that there are a lot of Filipinos working for the United Nations in Geneva Headquarters.

Unfortunately, the seminar was held in Moevenpick Hotel which is a few meters away from Geneva International Airport and I was scheduled to fly back to London on the night after the closing of the seminar thus I was not able to explore the whole city except for the Tuesday night dinner held in the city center. Nevertheless, it was really great that I get to visit the country and hopefully I can go back soon and this time for more sightseeing around Geneva and Lausanne.