The Last of the October Beer

October was a fun month. It kicked off with oktoberfest in Munich, continued with my birthday in Istanbul, and ended with oktoberfest in Baden.

This past wednesday, Celia was kind enough to organize a pumpkin carving night at Ziegel-D. There were some pretty impressive carvings! Rachel came and together we carved her first ever (and, thinking about it, probably my second ever) halloween pumkin (the swiss don't do it). The night continued with a pretty good consumption of beer and wine by the interns of whom a pretty good number showed up.

Thursday, went to Nouba the local shisha bar and had a couple of beers and some good (tunisian?) food.

Friday, Rachel and I planned on just going out for a drink with one of her friends who was celebrating his last day at alstom. We ended up being invited to the Baden Oktoberfest. Normally, it is required to reserve a seat months in advance and pay quite a fee to get in. As it happened, Rachel's friend had a friend inside who was able to convince the security at the entrance that there was room for us. We paid a measly 10CHF cover and proceeded to get royally drunk! There was live music, good beer, lots of drunk alstom employees, dancing on the table, funny hats - more or less just like the real octoberfest with less rules, more flashing lights, and less food. Afterwards, for some reason, we went to a bar called Lemon and had a completely unnecessary glass of wine. Then bed.

Halloween was quite modest. We had some people over for wine and shisha and some pleasant conversation and that was more or less it. I was knackered from the previous night and not many people actually wanted to go out so it ended up a fairly uneventful evening.

And thus ended October and, with it, the first 6 months of my Swiss Experience. Lets hope the next 6 are half as good!