22 August 2007

Intermezzo in the Swiss mountains

(Quelle: Sigrun)

Now is the perfect time for preparing the underlying contents for my oncoming study to be placed in Estonia. I returned back to Davos where I was invited to stay in one of the most pleasent housing opportunities. It is the former residence of the doctors who practised in the nearby sanatorium (Thurgauer Schaffhauser Höhenklinik). Readers of Thomas Mann's novels would find here their magic mountain. 100 meters above valley level, six people share now this beautiful spacious home, because the sanatorium had to close two years ago. The doctors' house is one of the few possibilities for young people to live economically. To stay in a single-room appartment in Davos leaves you with the same costs than in flats-lacking Zurich. The other problem is the cyclicality of the paramount tourism industry: Many people in the service sector only work here during the winter. The house inmates represent the other, constant side of a town that counts 13'000 inhabitants. All of them are engaged in the medical field in the broader sense. Hospital nurses, surveillant in the production of plastic bones (for medical training) or illustrator of hand operations to be published on the web. Discussions will end up sooner or later into hospital stories. As a guest of the house, then is the time of withdraw yourself from the gossipish company.

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