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How We Found Friends in Zurich-- this is the story of our founding members of SHECONNECTS, we here share with you our real stories of finding connection, laughter, and belonging in Zurich.

I moved from China to Zurich one and a half years ago. It wasn’t my first time living abroad — during my university years, I was surrounded by international students from everywhere. Friendship formed easily in that world. We studied together, cooked together, healed our homesickness through laughter and late-night noodles. Community was simply part of daily life. I want to find my female community and female friendship in Zurich as well. Here in Zurich, life feels… different

When I first arrived in Zurich, I told myself — “Okay, if I’m going to live in Switzerland, I have to experience the mountains properly.”  But how to find my female hiking friends in Zurich? This is not just from postcards or Instagram reels, but with my own breathless legs and sweaty forehead, and to connect with anotehr soul. The only problem? I was new here and didn’t want to hike alone. I want to find other girls who can build up new friendship with me in Zurich. So I gat

When I moved to Zurich, I expected beauty, efficiency, maybe even peace.What I didn’t expect was loneliness . I was asking myself: How can I find female friends in Zurich and build up true connections with other girls? Switzerland is stunning — postcard-perfect streets, quiet trams, breathtaking mountain views — but I often felt like I was living inside a museum. Admiring everything… but not touching anything. Not belonging  to anything. That changed the night I went alone to

When I first landed in Zurich as an young expact woman, I thought I was prepared. I had my documents sorted, my apartment half-furnished, and my optimism fully charged. But what I wasn’t prepared for was the quietness  — a kind of silence that you don’t just hear, but feel. Suddenly, I went from a fast-paced, socially rich life to standing alone in a beautifully organized supermarket aisle, staring at 27 types of yogurt and wondering why I felt so disconnected. I realized ver