Whoa whoa whoaw. Okay. I can’t even say how lucky, how priviledged I feel to be having these experiences on exchange. Just whoa. After our ski (and snowboard!) trip to Verbier, about an hour and a half drive south from Lausanne, I can say I’ve skiied the Swiss Alps. And watched a concert on a […]
Yup, that’s an onion!!! And a basil plant on the left that I got earlier today. To put the title of this post into a bit more context I wanted to write a bit about my newly acquired onion and basil plant. Last weekend was probably one of my favorite moments so far […]
On my blog I have been a bit offline recently. It feels like a lot has happened in the past few weeks: starting classes, organizing assignment and test deadlines, adventures a few weekends ago snowshoeing and eating fondue (yup, life is ruff), cooking for myself (does this take up lots of evening time for anyone else? […]
I’ve been in Lausanne for three days now. Three and a half. I think I wrote in one of my blog posts about how it probably won’t hit me that I’m going away until I’m on the plane (though this doesn’t mean I shouldn’t pack and all). Well, I was not totally right about that. Actually […]
Listening to: She Belongs to Me – Bob Dylan My semester at the University of Lausanne starts in a few weeks, and right now packing is on my mind. I’m trying to remember how I packed everything in one suitcase for this past summer I spent working in Quebec City. But then, I packed mostly […]
VISA applications, Health Insurance documentations, housing and accommodations. Okay so there are quite a number of things that have had to be done in the past few months to prepare for my time in Lausanne. Sometimes it can feel like swimming in a sea of to-do lists, phone calls, and appointments, but I think I […]
“Traveling and living in a country where the common language is foreign to you is totally no problem” – *cricket noises* It’s mid-afternoon and my taxi car is nearing the area of Vieux Limoilou in Quebec City. The original route of a 30 minute walk and bus with baggage from the airport had been cancelled due to […]