Winter School

For those who met Carolina when she did a year of service in CR, here are some pictures of her and her family at the winter school in Switzerland

Carolina's son Nathan..

Here is a picture of me taken at the winter school.

Finally some more news !!!

With the temperature going up and now, flu has attack again and this time I was one of the victims (for almost a month)…



But now we are expecting some snow (I hope so I want to go skiing) and maybe I will be able to see the school like this…



It’s been now over 2 weeks since I started working fulltime for the Hotel Management School. I’m the assistant of the Admission Coordinator, and the cool think it’s that I have contact with the students. The new semester group will be arriving the week-end of the 5-6th February (so I’ll be working 12 days in a row) but I’ll get those days later, which means a long week-end and hopefully a trip…
I went to my first winter school the last week of December and I enjoy it enormously. I hope o have pictures soon (that’s the bad thing about having only a film camera). I was in charge of the junior youth French speaking group.

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...

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)…

Finally work...

Tomorrow I start on a new job. It's only for 3 weeks but I'm excited about it. I will be working for a Hotel School helping organizing their archives…
Tomorrow it's also the beginning of the famous "Marché de Noël" (Christmas Market), and of course I will check it out…

I moved again !!!

It's been already 3 weeks since I moved to my new apartment. A baha'i friend left for a year to the USA and I'm renting during that time his apartment. It's on the third floor of a small building (I'm the top floor) and I share it with the owners and their families…

After climbing all the stairs (no elevators)… the entrance…

At the entrance is the dinning room, which is kind of small.

Right from the tinny dinning room is the kitchen…

And to the left the bathroom and the bedroom…

And finally the living room…

This is the great view from the big window in the living room and the balcony…

Delta competition

Last month I went with my sister Sylvie and her children (Yoan, Léa and Maëlle) to see a Delta & Parachutist competition. We found a nice place close to the lake, where we could see pretty well the landing area…My nephew, Yoan, took the pictures… He is a really good photographer…