February 19, 2008

Sorry it's been a while, I got loaded with some work and laziness recently haha.

This past weekend was pretty chill, just hung around my house and did some work on Saturday and watched a movie with the host bros Sat night. On Sunday Steph and I went to Lausanne, a small city about 20 minutes from Arzier. The headquaters of the IOC is located here, so there is a cool Olympic Museum that we went too. It had all the torches and medals and a bunch of equipment from all the modern-era Olympic Games. After we walked around a bit, we headed down to the pier (Lausanne is right on Lake Geneva), and walked around here. There were a ton of people and little kids out and it was a beautiful day. We headed back in the late afternoon and enjoyed a good Sunday day trip.

This week has been somewhat interesting. We have been at different UN agencies for the past two days hearing people speak on human rights and international law. We went to the UNHCR, UN Coordination Office, and some others (they were not as interesting haha). Other than having to dress up and look nice every day, its been pretty cool.

As for my family situation - it's official, I'm moving. I think I'm actually just moving around the corner to family friends of my current family. They have three kids, two sons 20 and 10, and a 17 yr old daughter. The mother is Swiss-Italian and the father is a scientist. Apparently they also have a black lab!!! and a cat. I'm headed over in about an hour to meet them and see if I like them. If all goes well I should move in on Thurs or Friday.

Other than that, not much else is going on. We're headed to Brussels/Paris for a week on Sunday, so everybody is looking forward to that.

Oh, its officially 4 weeks into the program and I can't believe its been so quick. After we get back from Brussels/Paris (which I'm sure will fly) the program is nearly half over. CRAZY!

Alright, time for dinner and an awkward meeting with the potential family soon.