Monday, December 18, 2006

Castle of Chillon !!!


I fell in love with this castle, it's the oldest one that can be visited in Switzerland, and it's also so rich in history…(it's amazing what can be done with Photoshop with an unfocused picture).













This is my 3rd visit, but this time we took a guided tour. I say "we", 'cause my nephew Yoan (15 yrs old) came to spend the week-end with me. So after seeing 5 of the 6 Star wars movies in two days, we went to get a touch with the past…






This castle it's famous in the world after a poem written by Lord Byron "The prisoner of Chillon" based on the true story of Bonivard, a prisoner during the independence fight of the Republic of Geneva.




Just a couple of pictures of the end of the tour, before he had to catch the train to go back home…



Photos taken by me

I was happy to get to borrow a camera and to take a couple of pictures...







Thursday, December 07, 2006

More news !!!

I’ve been working now for 2 weeks now, and I have only one left.
I have met so many interesting people It’s nice to work in an international environment.
Sometimes things go really slow for a while, and then suddenly everything happens at the same time.
Well that’s what’s going on with my life now. After month wondering if I was going to find a job, now I’m getting several interviews, even the place where I am right now it's hoping to give me a permanent job.

This are some pictures of the two Hotel Schools I've been assisting at the Admissions office.






Mosty what I’ve been doing it’s “cleaning up” all the files, organizing all the archives. I’m lucky that I can listen to music while doing it. After going twice trough my Mp3s I decide to look for radio stations on the net. It’s known that usually the best music it’ s after midnight, so I’ve been listening to “Radio 1” at 2 am (well here it was 9am). For those who doesn't know that radio station, it's one of the biggest stations in Costa Rica.I listening to it for so long, until 10 am, there is a program around 7 am “Radio 1 en la carretera” I used to listen where I was heading to work, it was the only one not presenting the national program “Panorama”. Oh ! how many souvenirs.

I will be heading again for the “Marché de Noël”, we are doing the secret friend game next Monday at work, so I had to get a present.

Finally snow has come, the hotel a Leysin it’s covered with snow…So the skiing season would be starting soon. My cousin promised to me that we would go, so I can learn to Skiing or Snowboard (she & Prem are still arguing about which one of the 2 I should start with)…