Living in the mountains is living close to nature.
I am continuously surprised by the beauty of the unexpected.
We were walking in the mountains around our village when I turned to see the biggest moon coming up over the mountain. It was huge.
It was breathtaking.
I wish I had a better camera so that I could share [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Sunset - Moonrise
Socializing in Switzerland
I have done some research online about socializing in Switzerland since my last post describing how I continuously stick my foot in my mouth while socializing in our village.
My biggest mistake:
Here in Switzerland you do not talk about personal subjects where as in the States we are fairly open with people.
Once or twice, I have [...]
My husband, the French
…was not happy that the French will sing a mostly English song in the next Eurovision. It is the first time that France will sing a song in another language other than French since the Eurovision began over fifty years ago.
Read about it here on BBC NEWS.
My French husband did what would have driven [...]
The foreigner
Is me.
My small village is smothering the life out of me.
I know I will never fit in this village.
People in this village know each others families even two villages over.
Swiss that move here from other areas of Switzerland (even the French speaking parts) are treated like foreigners.
Here. In our village, I have no friends. [...]
Park fun in the mountains
The snow that had fallen during the night melted quickly against the sunlight.
I told the kids to put on their rain boots so they could wade through mud puddles and walk through fields.
Half an hour later, we made it to my favorite park. There are only two swings and a slide. But, the [...]
Confrontation
I confronted my Bosnian neighbor today.
I told her she did not have the right to put her clothes up in the laundry room on my day.
She told me she could use the drying racks because the racks were not mine.
I asked her if the racks were hers and she said no. I knew that they [...]
Respecting others is a problem for some of my neighbors
Laundry days are stressful for me. It has nothing to do with doing a week’s worth of clothes in a half a day. I have that down pat.
The stress comes neighbors. We have the great luck of living in the same building with the most selfish and disrespectful two families I have [...]
A promise
I feel like we have passed through a long winter in our life.
Vilay and I are looking forward to Spring’s promise.
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We are planning on my starting work next month unless there are some surprises we hadn’t counted on.
The past has taught me to NEVER count my chickens before they’re hatched.
While things aren’t sure, they are [...]
A walk before bedtime makes for sweet dreams
We needed to work out the cramps in our muscles from yesterdays long walk.
After dinner was finished and the dishes cleaned up, we headed out for a walk. I think it took us longer to convince the kids to go and get their coats on than it did to take the walk.
Once we got [...]
The Jura in spring
We walked six miles over our beautiful mountains. The sky was immense. It was covered in a deep blue decorated with huge white fluffy clouds. It felt good to stretch our muscles on a weekend walk. We haven’t been able to walk so far since before the snow started last year.
We [...]
