President-Wilson Geneva

... with a French children's rights NGO called Terre des Hommes, one with the Director of the International Peace Bureau, and one that was with a friend and her friend who have started an NGO for street children in Uganda and have done quite a bit of hands on research of Ugandan schools. This week I have three more, one from a child labor specialist at the ILO, one with a graduate professor of children's rights and education, and one ...

... crisis started, Bernard Madoff, and banking secrecy. We talked of our personal stories as Christians and the development of our church association in Switzerland. We discussed the merits of the Swiss soldier, the history of the Swiss army and mercenaries, how closely the cantons of Geneva and Vaux are ethnically connected to France. How Napoleon saved Geneva from Berne but then annexed it. We went on to the adventures of traveling in Africa, and corruption ...

At 10:00 the Air France flight took off for Geneva. By this time the sky was clear and we flew right over Paris. I would see the Arc de Triomphe, and the Dome of the Invalides very clearly. I could even pick out the street corner where one of my usual hotels is located. It was cloudy and clear in patches on the way to Switzerland. The Jura Mountains to the west of Geneva were clear, and lightly powdered with snow, as we descended. Lake Geneva (as we call it in English – the ...

... and entertained myself, but of course as luck would have it, it was just about out of power and I wanted to save the little I had left in case I need to make any emergency calls or emails. Again, come prepared to foreign emergency centers/rooms.<br><br>I did have a chronometer on my watch, so I decided to time how long it took them to call my name. After filing through my purse in search of other forms of entertainment ...

... the hotel its just on the border of france and switzerland and its minging basic travel lodge type hotel with nothing at all to do in the area. We had no money no food or anything luckily the hotel around the corner sold something that they said was pizza although we are not sure what it was but we got some ate it and went to bed as we are up really early in the morning!

... motivating force is an external push instead of an internal one. But, it is really good for teenagers to explore and experience volunteering, and hopefully they will find a cause that impacts them and they develop a lifelong passion for something charitable. In Switzerland, however, there is no push to volunteer. My thought is that the college application process is less focused on extracurricular activities and is less intense, which leads to fewer youth ...

... br><br>"You know, they have Alps in Italy." <br><br>"Really?" <br><br>"Yup. Just like the ones in Switzerland. Except in Italy, there's also Rome. In Switzerland, you've just got Zurich. And Geneva." <br><br>She considered this for a while, rolling the idea of ruins and pasta and friendly people around in her head. <br><br>"No," she said, handing Kate her visa, "I think I'll go to Switzerland." <br><br>For her sake, I hope this place is excellent. <br>

... you are probably chuckling thinking it already was one of my staples but now I have real cause for it to become so. A big bar of chocolate is only 40 cents (and it's the good stuff!). There is an entire aisle devoted to just chocolate. I'm obviously where I belong! What I have found is that certain items are really cheap: namely what we would expect bread and cheese. (Great all the ...

... in dialect between Swiss German and German. After leaving Fribourg I was now into true Swiss German speaking territory. Learned phrases such as please, thank you, yes, no and "I don't speak German". Before I headed into town I suggested we meet up in the evening, only they didn't know where going to be so I waved goodbye and carried on into town. Getting to the town centre could not be easier. I ...