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2012 by Day
You may have noticed a sharp drop-off in blog posts this year (2 compared to 20 the previous year). That was mostly because we thought of a new way to document our lives living and studying abroad in Swissland. For the past year we filmed a few seconds of video every day on our phones […]
5 months later…
September 28, 2012
Yeah yeah, we’ve been a bit lazy updating this thing. But hey, let’s not take for granted the year and a half that we actually did update regularly! Besides procrastinating the next blog, we’ve been living our daily lives. Yet today I found it better to procrastinate my other responsibilities and update our friends and family with […]
Carneval de Muja
April 26, 2012
So wayyyy back in February, Rand and I spent an AMAZING weekend celebrating Carnival in our friend Maria’s hometown of Muggia, Italy. It started out a bit stressful when our first train to Milan on Friday afternoon was straight up cancelled out of Lausanne due to the train strike in Northern Italy. But fortunately we […]
Posted in: Italy, Travelling
Home for the Holidays
January 4, 2012
This year Tam and I came home a bit earlier than normal in order to catch my sister Kylee’s college graduation in Elementary Education from UALR! We had even planned to attend a little banquet for her the night before the graduation, but unfortunately our first flight out of Geneva to the U.S. was cancelled […]
Swanksgiving
December 28, 2011
Although we were already in Swissland for Thanksgiving last year, we just didn’t have the time nor the French ingredient translation skills to make it happen. This year was a different story. You might remember that we scouted out an American food import shop in Nyon a few train rides away that carried a lot […]
Posted in: Holiday, Thanksgiving
Tinka
November 6, 2011
The clinic where I volunteer is a small animal clinic, so we deal mostly with dogs and cats, but also guinea pigs, chinchillas and rabbits, on occasion. But, the owner of the clinic, Dr. Jean Pfister, is also one of the main vets for big cats in Switzerland. Within my first month of working at […]
Posted in: Uncategorized
1 year in Swissland!
October 22, 2011
Believe it or not, the first year of our adventure in Swissland is over, even though it feels like we just stepped off the plane last week. Some parts of the experience were tough, like living for six months without a cell phone, but most were amazing. There were a lot of moments over the past […]
Posted in: Year in Review
January 3, 2013
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