So I am officially writing to you, World, from MY new CHAMBRE (bedroom) in the university dorms in Geneva, FUCKING, Switzerland ( Read more... )

After 6 months in Cedric's grandmother's house... the longest time that I have spent in any one domicile in the past 3 years... I am moving into student housing today ( Read more... )

One of the students in my class is arranging for the First Year's to take a tour of the LHC (Large Hadron Collider)at CERN given by the director of the ATLAS (one of the 4 accelerators on the collider) project, Professor Allan Clark ( Read more... )

How amazing it is to be home for almost 2 whole hours and to not have looked in my school binder ONCE! This is the first night since i started school last Tuesday that I have not had several hours of homework to do. Actually, I certainly could find things to do, but sometimes it is best to let your brain rest before trying to make it do things ( Read more... )

Hyperbolic functions, inverse hyperbolic functions, their derivatives, Natural Log, e, Real numbers, Trig functions must be memorized, Archemedes, crazy math professor who spends 2 hours to prove basic properties of sets on the board in front of us, leaving us all like "huh?".... How can 1+1=0 ( Read more... )

Like a ghost town, there is no one on the streets. Manequins in shop windows in their underwear with no spectators. Stickers advertising the "Red Light District" with no working girls in sight. Chairs stacked up against café tables. The trams and busses running every 20 minutes instead of every 5. The man playing the music box with his fat cat must ( Read more... )

Where to begin? I have felt in the past week like the Hindu god that has a gazillion arms... all of them balancing an element of my life, barely keeping that balance, and feeling that at any moment I am going to tip over to one side... then the other side gets more weight... LOL ( Read more... )

So there are about 30 new students in the Physics/Astronomy department this year. New students are not admitted in Spring. We all have exactly the same schedule ( Read more... )

after the fireworks, guess who finally decides to have an SMS conversation with me.

FRANCOIS

He remebers the good feeling that we had that night, congratulates me on Uni and French, wants me to keep in touch, and hopes to see me again soon.

WOAH

Finished my last day of work as an au pair Friday. Jivan got what I believe to be his first kiss on the lips from a girl from me as I walked out the door. He is 8. In the past week and a half he had been trying to grab my boobs ( Read more... )