Month: July 2008
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A journey to the past
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This last week has been an emotional roller coaster. I don’t mean this negative, even though there are some sad memories attached to my journey. It is just very exhausting to be confronted with my past nearly thirty years. To travel to Switzerland every two years is always very emotionally…
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Two weeks in Switzerland
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This morning I went down to the river Aare jogging four kilometers. In Chiang Mai I would have collapsed of the heat. It is sooo beautiful here. The air is clean and dry. The river, the trees. I think we Swiss sometimes forget the blessing we have here living in…
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Still Raining
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Monday morning in Switzerland and the rain hasn’t stopped. It is kind of cold even though I got quite used to the cold here. We are talking about 17 degrees here 🙂We had our last meeting where we shared about the lahu work in Brienz on Saturday evening. It was…
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a Saturday with rain
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Today is a rainy day in Switzerland. On our schedule we have a stop in Interlaken to meet my mother and then in Brienz in the evening for our last presentation.The meeting Yesterday evening went well and we met alot of nice people who were very interested in the work…
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A sunny day in Emmental
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Yesterday afternoon we spent time with friends in the "deep" Emmental where the famous cheese with holes comes comes from. In a small village called Affoltern there is a "Käserei" (cheesmaker) where they show you how to make the cheese. In the evening we had our fourth presentation of our…
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Touch down
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We touched down in Zurich and finished the last leg of our journey to Bern. It is 14 degrees Celsius here and it feels like being in a under cooled office. I guess Switzerland is such a rich country that it can cool the whole country and not just a…
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At Singapore Airport
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We finished the first leg of our journey to Switzerland. We arrived in Singapore. Federer is placing Nadal at Wimbledon and we saw our first huge display of Swiss chocolate. There was even chocolate fondue for the microwave. All this Swiss culture/inheritance even before touching down in Zurich. Schweiz hier…
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Bye, bye Thailand
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Soon we will be on our way. Last Post on Thai soil for a while. Switzerland here we come. I really look foreward to breath swiss air and cullture, eat lot’s of chocolate and cheese. ….have to go back to packing….
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Going to Switzerland
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Like every two years the whole family will travel to Switzerland. We will be gone for five weeks. Mainly to reconnect to our home country. My children need this even more than I. But to be honest I miss my family and my friends. I also need a doses of…