We RSVPd to the Annual General Assembly meeting, thinking we would probably be one of few people there. We thought it would be good to go considering this is our first year as a member and we don't want to seem like slackers. Boy were we wrong! We walked into a room with about 300 people (it turns out that there was a free dinner following and free food lures college students and retirees alike!). After a short lecture about earthworms and then a summary of last years happenings, we got to vote on everything from next year's budget to changes in the by-laws. It was interesting, considering I only understood about half of what was going on due to prevalence of Swiss-German. Dinner, conversation, and Folk music + old people dancing followed. The relatively younger people at our table informed us that this was about as Swiss as it gets, which was interesting to experience considering how much the Swiss tend to keep to themselves. Conversation was entertaining to say the least and consisted of me smiling and nodding a lot as well as responding to questions with ambiguous answers. (its hard to know if you are supposed to react positively or negatively when you don't understand the question, so ambiguous is the way to go...) A local nursery 'sponsored' the table and stage decorations for the event, which were, of course, live flowering plants. We were told that each family was allowed one to take home and we managed to snag a lovely orange-red rose to take home. I'll have to find a good spot for it next spring.
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