Posts under ‘Life in Switzerland’

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Le carnaval du Noirmont
This past weekend was packed with carnival activities. I am beat. I will try to make a decent post tonight or tomorrow. Today is laundry day and I still have to clean up all the confetti sprinkled around [...]

It is magical.
We don’t have a car and take the train when we need things we can’t buy in our village. Today was one of those days. It isn’t hard to love taking the train and the view that goes along with it.

We have Internet, a new memory card for one of the [...]

Rubbing the sleep from my eyes I stretched to see what the kids were so excited about. Their shrills of happiness pushed me right out of sleep and into the day. Looking up I saw snow not falling but blowing from the sky. It was coming down hard and reminded me of [...]

Snow markers have been up all over our village since Monday. I was told that last year there wasn’t much snow here in the Jura. However, the year before the snow level was up to the orange!
That’s a lot of snow.
We have already bought snow pants and a coat that is wind and [...]

I was explaining to a woman that has a child in Sweet Bear’s school which I had promised to give the Ultimate Brownie recipe to that I hadn’t forgotten to do it. It was taking me a couple days because I had to translate it from English into French. I didn’t mention [...]

Last night I sat through my first parents meeting in Switzerland with my five year old daughter’s two wonderful teachers. I am totally impressed with her school.
All the parents sat together in a circle as the teachers explained what the children were doing in school. Each parent was given a book with their child’s [...]

I woke up and went to the bedroom window to open the shutters. I stood for a moment watching a women walking her dog in the rain.
A half hour later my mother called me as I was sitting down at the kitchen table with my coffee. Talking with her I glanced out the [...]

We took the train to Bern on Thursday. We felt the need to get out of the village. Since it was a holiday in the Jura, Vilay didn’t work. The weather was warmer than it had been all week which didn’t help our restless mood.

The tram in Bern.

The Swiss Alps are all [...]

We were in La Chaux-de-fonds this Saturday. On our walk from the train station to the Carrefour we passed these signs.

A poster of Christoph Blocher, current Swiss Minister of Justice, and member of UDC party (Swiss People’s Party). Someone has spray painted a red clown nose and Hitler black mustache with [...]

Switzerland is playing with my heart.
One day she loves me.
The next day, I am lost.

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