Le National Annemasse

... director of the UNESCO Geneva branch, and also probably one with a man who works at UNDP. So, I am pretty busy... It's a 30 page paper and my outline with sources pasted in is 23 pages... now I just have to write... ugh.<br><br>I have become ever closer with my host family these last few weeks, and enjoy lots of conversations with them. My French continues to improve thanks to the pushing of my host mom. My host dad and I like to ...

... and, of course, Swiss chocolate.<br><br>The conversation was varied and interesting: plans for the future of the work of our church organization, the advantages and dangers of the Internet, generational attitudes toward the Internet, changes in the world over the past decades and so on.<br><br>Around 5:00, as the sun set, Jean-Marc and Daniel began preparing dinner: a cheese fondue. It was ready about 6:00 and sat down for a delightful dinner. If you've ...

... at the immigration desks. My suitcase arrived in good shape, and I walked through customs to where Jean-Pierre Vernaud was waiting for me in the arrival area. We walked over to the underground rail station in the airport and bought my ticket, allowing us just enough time to get in the train to Geneva Cornavin station (the central station). There we had about a fifteen minute wait for the omnibus train that headed north toward Lausanne. The few minutes to our stop were pleasant ...

... I noticed that the receptionist was coughing a fair amount. That was so reassuring! Speaking of reassuring, the Urgent Care center was located on a street called "Maladiere" in a suburb called "Ouchy". Is it me, or is that a little unsettling?<br><br>Let me offer you a suggestion before I go any further... If you ever find yourself going to a foreign medical clinic, be sure, BE ABSOLUTELY SURE, to take along some reading ...

... 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 ...

... how small the spaces were<br>when I drove down this steep ramp with about 6 inches of room on each<br>side of the car. It took me about 5 minutes in jockeying the car<br>through the pillars that defined the 8-10 spaces there. I got in the<br>room and then headed out to wander the town and wander down to Lake<br>Annecy, a gem in the Alps region. <br><br>The lake is touted as being the<br>cleanest lake in Europe, spring and glacier fed, is about 8 miles<br>long and 2 ...

... a soccer game, and we all laughed and said we were Canadian, so the answer is no. We finished the night in an insanely smoky bar, we're too pooped to keep partying, so we all retreated to our quarters.<br><br>http://picasaweb.googl e.com/Jonny.D.Lawrence/9AroundTheWorldG eneva?authkey=Gv1sRgCLOSsZ2bopnx6wE&amp ;feat=directlink

We sadly left Chamonix and vowed to return there in the winter, and drove to Annecy. Annecy was kind of a repeat of Prague, beautiful old city, on the water, with canals... we were kind of sick of that scene by then. They are applying to have the 2018 Olympics there, with the ski events at Mont Blanc. It would be a nice venue for sure.

... plus que je parle. Tomorrow I have requested a cheese fondue, so we are off to a favourite place of Julie-Anne and Tony's. Tony also has plans to take me up into the French alps tomorrow, but there has been thunder and lightning today, so we'll see. Back up plan is the Red Cross museum. Then of course it's only two sleeps to go to Julie-Anne and I hit Paris! Talk again soon. Sue xxx

... to share all of the thoughts and ideas that we have had while we've been apart. And there have been many, but those would require a whole other "thought section" and might have to wait. Just two thoughts tonight. But it is so nice to be with Nicole right now and everything is so much better. I guess it just really shows that being so open and talking about everything, even though it feels really unnatural at the time, is a ...