Time to pack!

Hi Guys

University is now over for me. I have passed the Master Exam as well as the Master's Thesis is being accepted. Overall seen I have a good average, which should make clear which marks I have... Basically it's a bit below my expectations, but that's my ego. I have handed in my application for my Master's degree. If everything goes well, I see no point why it shouldn't go well, I have on the 10th October a degree labeling "Master of Science UZH in Geography with Specialization in Human and Economic Geography" or something similar.
Coming back to my Master's Thesis on Indian Migrants in Zurich (if anyone is interested to read it, just write an E-mail or a comment), the most rewarding thing is not the mark, but the talking with people after the completion of the text. I have talked to 3 Indians already, one who participated in the interviews, and they are all very much interested in the fact that someone looked at their ethnic group.
The reason why I did not get a very good as a mark was that I have evaluated the qualitative interviews in a quantitative way, meaning I was not following the subject's conditions on how to evaluate a certain kind of interview... So it's all about expectations. But I would not evaluate it in another way, as I think the evaluation methods of qualitative studies are basically rubish and useless!!!
Looking back at 5 years of studying Geography, what do I think. Everyone who has listened to me in the recent time, must know this. I absolutely love the approach Geography makes in social science (I see myself as an Social Geographer!!! Physical Geography is just a nice to know by product in my mind, but thats another discussion). However due to the fact that we have this broad and colourful mix of subjects in the first two years, you never have a base. I ask myself, how is it possible to make a good social science approach if you don't know sociology, economics, political science and most important of all have no clue of the basics of philosophy. I have figured this out with long talks with my friend Pascal. This lead to the result that I picked up a small book we had in the Kantonsschule which is an extremely brief history of philosophy. In the Kanti I thought philosophy was useless and crap bullshit (sorry for the words!). We had in the last semester of the Kanti some philosophy and we had this book, I have never read. I read it this week and I have noticed that now I know the names of the guys in the book (Platon, Arestoteles, Hume, Darwin, Descartes, Freud, Kant, Weber, Marx, Husserl and what they are all called) and I have at most a faint idea what they said. The problem is, I don't understand it! Therefore it's extremely difficult to understand theoretical ideas of modern sociologists because they build uppon these bases (for those of you who don't my scientific views in detail, I love theory and the combinations of theoretical approaches. But not the talking in extreme detail of one theory but more the overview of many approaches...). Therefore I have bought some books on the introductiory of philosophy. Which now leads to the conclusion that I, if I had to start with Geography again would take as minor subjects: philosophy, sociology and economics.
Now, speaking of theory and approaches, as in Zurich we only talk about the "Handlungstheorie" in the sense of Giddens and if going a bit further of Werlen, whose actor centered socialgeography is in my eyes still a very valuable approach. However we do not discuss sociological alternatives, i.e. Luhmann's systemtheory or Habermas theory of "kommunikatives handeln".
Ok, after this brief scientific discussion, how does my world discovery continue! Tomorrow at 0810 from Wil I am of to France for 3 Months. Sun I am coming!
Until then!
Stay tuned in with my world discovery, enjoy the EM (although I guess the swiss are not going to last long...). Don't ask me who will win!

Greetings!!!