Tuesday, 10 November, 2009
Exploring the 'expat experience'
Conor Lennon’s theme for Tuesday’s conversations live at the Movie restaurant in Zurich is “the expat experience”:
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Chantal Panozzo is author of the popular blog One Big Yodel, which covers a range of topice related to expat life, including the bizarre ritual of being made redundant in Switzerland.
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Conor Lennon meets some of the team behind the new book Gruetzi Newcomer, aimed at helping newcomers to the German-speaking part of Switzerland settle in.
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Journalist Tom Armitage, senior account manager Laura Gardiner and voiceover artist and longtime expat Calton Birkenshaw discuss their experiences of living in Switzerland.
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The panel discuss integration, and particularly the linguistic issues newcomers to Switzerland have to surmount in order to settle in.
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