Swiss Life by Chantal Panozzo
Life in Switzerland. The not-made-for-TV version. In 2006, American Chantal Panozzo moved to a spa town near Zurich ready for a glamorous life as an expatriate. She would eat chocolate. She would climb mountains. And she would order cheese in four languages. Instead, she lived a life more in tune with reality than fantasy. Contrary to popular American belief, Switzerland isn't just a setting in a storybook called Heidi. It's a real place where someone with a master's degree in communications can't make a phone call, where you can be hired in one language and fired in another, and where small talk doesn't exist-but phrases like Aufenthaltskategorien von Drittstaatsangeh rigen do. Swiss Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Known is a collection of both published (The Christian Science Monitor, National Geographic Glimpse, Chicken Soup for the Soul Books, and Brain, Child) and new essays in which Chantal discovers that no matter how hard she wills her geraniums to cascade properly, she will never be a glamorous American expatriate-or Swiss.Chantal Panozzo lived in the country of cheese, chocolate, and people who could pronounce her name for nearly a decade. She's written about Switzerland for publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Salon, Vox, CNN Travel, CNN Business Traveler, Fodor's, Die Zeit, and others. Swiss Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Knew, a collection of personal essays, got her on the cover of the prestigious Swiss tabloid Blick am Abend as the American who preserved Switzerland's honor. She hopes that the sequel, American Life: 30 Things I Wish I'd Knew, will have the same effect on the United States. Because it is in desperate need of someone to save its honor.
Meanwhile, she'd want to remind everyone that there's much to do in canton Aargau, the Chicago suburbs, and everywhere in between. Chantal Panozzo's website is www.chantalpanozzo.com.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780990315506 |
| ISBN 10 | 0990315509 |
| Title | Swiss Life |
| Author | Chantal Panozzo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cross Border Content Inc. |
| Year published | 2014-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 206 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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