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Life in Switzerland

Hauling away the snow

December 11, 2008

Click on photo to view larger. I took this photo at the train station in our village.   The smaller vehicle is picking up the snow and blowing it out the top into the back of a dump truck.   How crazy is that! We have that much snow and it is still snowing.   [...]

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Baitchai for the children

February 5, 2008

The children ran to the door of the house making as much noise as they could until the owner of each house opened the door to give them donations of candy, chocolate, cookies and money. If no one was home the children would check the mailbox to see if there were any goodies left for [...]

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Night of the Baitchai

February 4, 2008

Our village will be assaulted by the Baitchai tonight. Starting at around 10 p.m. men and women dressed in white will parade through the streets of our village playing musical instruments, banging on pots and pans or whatever else they are inspired by. Basically the goal is to make as much noise as humanly possible [...]

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My Swiss Jura under the snow

February 2, 2008

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 [...]

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Monday equals laundry

July 23, 2007

Heaps and heaps of it. To be exact a weeks worth of laundry with three accident prone (I admit it is from my genes) kids. I am looking at eight loads of fun. In Switzerland, apartment dwellers must abide by a laundry schedule. Each tenent in my building has half a day one day a [...]

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Mountain stroll

July 21, 2007

We started our walk a little later in the day than usual. It turned out to be in our luck because of the mist. I felt a few drops on my face and hand here and there. The drops never amounted to more. It was magic walking in the mist. Here are some of the [...]

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Life in Switzerland (part one)

July 21, 2007

View of France from Switzerland. Photo taken the day we walked from our village in Switzerland to France. We live in the Jura which is rural. Our village has just a little over 1000 people living in it. However, we have a train station, bus, Coop, post office, bank, bakery, butcher (2, I think), 2 [...]

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Alone

July 19, 2007

And, lovin’ it!!! Vilay stands in the hall of our apartment building arranging the box holding our new Swisscom phone under his arm. For about three days this phone has not allowed us to answer calls or call out. I have listened to my parents leave messages on our answering machine as I frantically swear [...]

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It’s my birthday and I can blog if I want to

July 18, 2007

Finally! It took FOREVER to get online because of Vilay and I deciding to use a cable line instead of a phone line. Big, BIG mistake! The cable in our apartment was too old and would have needed to be replaced. So, we had to wait to see if our landlord would allow the work [...]

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Moving

May 25, 2007

Tomorrow. We are heading for the border bright and early Saturday with a truck full of our personal possessions. You will not be surprised if you have been reading this blog that most of said possessions are actually kid related. Vilay is a nervous wreck about all the paperwork needed for the French and Swiss [...]

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Moving chores

May 24, 2007

We have been running around like crazy trying to get everything in order. Lucky for us, Vilay’s company handles all the paperwork for the permits. After we move I will write a nice post about how we researched all the financial angles of living in Switzerland. Basically, we didn’t have a choice but to live [...]

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Switzerland – here we come!

May 23, 2007

We are moving to the canton of Jura in Switzerland this weekend. I didn’t want to say to much about what was going on because I wasn’t sure how it would all work out. I didn’t want to talk about something that may not have even happened. Now, I can talk about it because it [...]

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