First day of school

Lots of kids I know in Wisconsin (including my niece and nephew) have their first day of school today. It was my first day of school too. I had my first German lesson this morning. We will be learning "Hochdeutsch", not Swiss German. I suppose one might think it would be a good idea to learn Swiss German while living in Switzerland, but hochdeutsch is much more... how should I say it... well, at risk of offending any Swiss blog readers, it's much more normal. The nice thing about taking private lessons is that we can be flexible with travel schedules. Since we're going to be in Hong Kong next week our next lesson will be September 13. In the meantime, I have lots of homework.