Drake Longchamp Swiss Q Hotel Geneva

I am actually surprised that I am not writing this from the library, which is where I now spend all of my days trying to write my ISP (independent study project). My marriage to the library is why I didn't write last week, because I didn't have anything too exciting to report. It's actually pretty cool, I have my own desk in the "Law and Politics Reading Room" at the United Nations Library which overlooks the UN grounds, the lake, and ...

... the world. Some subjects were closer to home: the perils of driving in the snow during the Swiss winter, the relative merits of having one&#8217;s own fruit schnapps distilled, and the joys of gardening on which all my friends here agreed.<br><br>It was a wonderful meal and an exceptional evening. The Giauques having a two hour drive before them, left about 9:00 and that was the signal for others to begin leaving too. I will head to bed early again tonight.

... hear from the highway out toward the clearly-visible lake, it was a restful walk. We arrived back in the house around 5:30 and had dinner around 7:00. We talked of many things: school, and jobs and retirement (Mr. Vernaud recently retired), Church history, the B&amp;B, current affairs in our church, the swine flu, international relations and prophecy, to name a few.<br><br>By the time we finished dinner I was quite tired so I retired about 9:00 and am hoping for a good night's sleep.

... in I tried to explain and she said I had to go off and get the right money. In the end I had to go and use the toilet in burger king down the road ha ha and when I got back to Ian he counted the money and said that I had 2 all along I had just counted it wrong OMG!<br><br>The train ride was nice and looked out the window the whole way, had to get a couple of buses ...

... up with Diane's mom Carol and brother Geoff! So it basically was Jon and I intruding on some Bell and Ring quality time, its was great, they treated us like we were their kids too =). We then took a water taxi by the famous Jet D'eau, went down by the "beach" and played some beer bocce in a park. We were invited to join ...

... really funny because we crossed his path in the main hall, where there are several pictures of him interacting with important people like Nelson Mandela and Bill Clinton, and we were able to recognize him because of his beard. That's Geneva for you, I guess.<br><br>I have been awful about bringing my camera with me, but I will upload a few pictures that my friends have taken. <br><br>That's all for now, I hope you are doing well!<br><br>Best,<br><br>Chelsey <br><br><br>

... s'oubliera pas et dès que je serait baigné dedans ça repartira.. comme les vagues qui déferlent.. tu te prends la première en pleine figure.. t'es pas chaud, encore un peu endormi, fatigué.. mais ensuite tu retrouves le rythme.. <br><br>cela me rapelle Daniel qui trouvait incroyable après ne s'être pas vu depuis une annee et la dernière fois ou j'avais tant à raconter que je n'aie rien ou presque à ajouter alors qu'une période de vie de durée identique c'était écoulée ...

... is from Sweden. They have a cute little apartment and showed me an awesome time while I was 'up north.'   I flew in around lunch on a Friday, Jackie and I had lunch, then she went back to work and I explored Geneva on my own with a little tiny map in my free AAA Europe book no knowing a bit of French.  Now of course in Switzerland they speak French, German, Italian, and Swiss German depending on what region your in, but at least in Geneva, not much English is spoken.  The book lied to me ...

... I was in one boring city I was going to hang around and watch the final results three days later. The next day I went for one freakin long walk around Lake Geneva and then went shopping for the rest of the afternoon. I was going back and forth about about investing in a Swiss watch and I knew that if I was going to do it I only had 2 more days left. The watch situtation in Swizerland is beyond out of control. Every second shop sells the ...

... restaurants are the symbol of (at least the part we saw of) Genève, as the French call it. Penne with Alaskan Salmon at the Spaghetti Factory capped off the night. Don't ask why I chose to eat something from America. I guess you could say it was my transition meal. It was delicious. Bed time. The plan is to sleep in and lose our jetlag. Photos coming...