time mgmt

just a short update, cos I got holidays right now (just one week, but it's holidays xD) and I'm using them :)

first of all, I finally got this time management thing bagged - I am able to actually manage my time now! my parents probably WON'T believe me, because I never ever managed to do that during primary & grammar school, but hello, here I am ;)
It might have something to do with me not going out so much lately, but I guess it'll stay this way cos I really need my strength to stay healthy and to meet people who might just become friends =)

Autumn is also approaching Geneva and the cold winds and temperatures below 0°C/ 32°F at night suggest that winter is not far away either... I am sooo looking forward to snowboarding in the Swiss Alps :))

The last two weeks I had some decisions to make, none of them were easy but I hope I always made the right choice - pretty sure though, cos I feel so loved by the Father here, it's just incredible, this experience is beyond anything I've ever felt before :)

And just for the record, I am in love with Switzerland and I hope I will return to it to work maybe later in my life, but at least for some time again =)

peace out.

one month geneva

wow. the day has arrived.

I have been living in Geneva for one month.

And I don't regret choosing Switzerland... not for one second!

I have met so many people here, my facebook friends are exploding... at the beginning of september I had about 400... today I made my 597th facebook-friend :)

All the people I have met so far are precious to me, I've gotten to know a lot lot lot of ERASMUS-students, but I have started to get to know some regular students here as well... Of course it is difficult, because most of them don't speak English or German and my French is "okay", but it is awesome to see them & me trying hard ;)

Where I live, the Paquis, it's got everything I need, I probably wouldn't have to move around more than 700m in order to survive, go out & have fun, if there wasn't university I'd have to go to ;)

Of course there is always difficulties, be it with people or myself, but ever since I came here, I felt so protected by the Lord - everytime I would pray to get a word for my situation and then open my bible, I always get words of protection, love and faith... It is so amazing, sometimes I just sit there in my bed and I am so thankful, I sometimes even start crying because I am more than content, I am happy!

This picture is funny & it kind of represents, how I feel.

time. is. racing.

It is CRAZYY, how fast time flies, it really shocked me 2day when somebody told me that I am now for the 3rd(!!) week in Geneva... To me it still feels like the beginning of week 2... Creepy ;)

Very slowly, a rythm is starting to develop but I probably won't get a boring day-by-day life... There is wayy too much happening & I still get to know like 5 new people every day!

I'm also getting used to the French lectures although I usually understand MAX. 60% of the content, but what for do we have WIKIPEDA in a lot of languages with a lot of entries ;)

Many of the Profs also really try to pronounce their French cleary if ERASMUS are in class, that is a biiig PLUS+... It's actually nearly unbelievable how good the teachers are... You can talk to them, ask them why they did or said this & that, they really know how to command respect and NOBODY dares to walk all over them... Austria can learn from them, really ;)

Tuesday is now my "CANADA"-day, cos I manage to to meet Chris everytime in kitchen & afterwards we go watch TOP GEAR!!!

Wednesday is aaalways ESN-day where we usally have a pub-night, where I SADLY cannot stay very long because I have (yet, I might drop it^^) class at 8(!!!!) in the morning where I should know all about operating systems & networks ;D

Thursday is the "EVERYTHING CAN HAPPEN"-day (Big Bang Theory FTW:D)... I never know where I will end up... I might poker with some people at the student's home, go out or just cuddle up with my laptop and watch TV -shows... Or I might write a blog (like today :P) xD

One very particular incident this week:

Tuesday, 13.30, Tram station:

We just wait there for our Tram, Tram 13/Palettes, which should bring us to university, when suddenly a middle.aged man(clearly drunk, he had a bottle of wine in his hands) waves from the other side of the road... What he said, now in translation: "hey hey cuties... I know you (points at me... *aaah*), I called you yesterday (very confused exchange of glances at our part)... I know you too (points at M., a friend of mine; we are starting to panic, M. asks me, if I really don't know the guy... me NO, where from?!?!?!) girls, you are in the yellow pages!"

THANK GOD the tram arrived 10 secs later and we fled... Panic & Shock!! ^^

aaaaand, BTW, the tram in Geneva is REALLY dangerous... they don't have a light sensor... getting sandwiched in the doorway 2-3x a week is usual... whatever^^

But it is sooo awesome here... and very very slowly, the regualar students melt out of their frenchspeaking ice, and when they see us, they come over, ask " ERASMUS?" and start to talk in English or German, it is sooo AWESOMEEE :))