Firstly the sun vanished for a couple of days ( which i actually wasn't to bothered about as those who know me well know that i melt in the sun and turn red!). The clouds came, heavens opened and the wind came streaming off the mountain at full force trying to blow the house down! Amazing thunder and lighting though (more on that later!)! However the following day the internet died!!
So you currently find me in a McDee's (which i drove to myself!) sitting in a corner using their net..Thank you McDee's!!! (This is actually my second day in a row...i had to let family know that i was alive still first!) I haven't been able to get hold of anyone! Which sucks, but now you all know that i am alive and all is well! The net should be back by the end of the week..I'll be off line off a few more days then. Because we the net died i wasn't able to get hold of my various possible lifts to get to church! Not even to find where the local one was! I better be able to this week! I need to meet some follow LDS out here, so i can get a lift to institute basically!
Anyway to the little adventures of the past week! Firstly the lady of the house (who is called Aurelie by the way, i can say all the names...but spelling is another issue!) and her sister, Sophie (who left to go back home on Sunday, but was a massive help in settling me in here) with the little girls took me into Geneva city to see the MASSIVE lake that i saw when i was flying into Geneva airport. It has it's own water fountain too. It runs through France, Switzerland and possible somewhere else.
The Lake and Harbour.......
The City really does have a hundreds of watch shops! Naturally they are ridiculous expensive!
The family are going to take me by boat across the lake some time to see the other side, have lunch and visit the gorgeous looking church there.
This is the random place where you can go swimming in the city...yes its the lake right next to the boats...........
My little trip to the city was good. I'll get the chance to have a proper look around some time though. did you know that one of the only two European head quarters is in Switzerland? The other is is New York. That would be why the place is such an international city.
With the weather cooling down gradually, still very sunny though Aurelie and i took a little walk with the girls strait form the house. They live in really in gorgeous place! For a foreigner it is anyway. I thin it all looks rather country French. Not the Paris French, where everyone wears stripes and berets and visit the Eiffel Tower.
This is how lovely it was when the walk started........
And this was the end..........
I'm glad we made it back before the heavens opened again!
I've got a bunch of photos for you!
This older couple have the most beautiful garden in the village.......
I was desperate to get on of these flowers!! I'll have to work some magic next time I'm out on a little ganda.........
Half the people here have a mini orchard in their garden like the one below. It is my mission to make sure i visit one while I'm here, a proper one that is........
Lightning!!!! i said that i would get back to that. We think it split this tree at the back of the orchard....
When i am all grown up with my own house one day i would love one of these!......
To the destination of our walk...a little stream that you can only get down to 3 months of the year, the rest of the time there is too much water or snow.......
Kids just want to run away..............
More destruction from the storm we had.......
A 'fairy tale' or what?! huh?! My niece has to see this, we love finding little fairy spots.....
So you walk down this little, steep, slippery path to get to the land of fairy's ( as it now shall be called!), and find sings of a ruin. there used to be a water mill here where the bridge is.....
This is one for the brother....this guy came tearing down this rocky path (jealous Adam?)
That walk will probly became my regualr walk when i just need to get out the house!
I mentioned last time that you are supposed to be able to see Monte Blanc from the house? I was thinking, na! it'll be a tiny speck that you can just make out. Man was i wrong!!!! It is such an amazing site!!!! It has to be completely clear for you you to see it. I took photos the night before the ones that are below, and thought the view was great then, you could se it peeping throuhg the ti of the clouds. But the next day? WOW!! in real life it feels like its right there!
Presenting to you.......(drum roll!!!).....Monte Blanc!!......
Okay so this is zoomed in! but still pretty cool!! this ois what it feels like to me when i see it.
This is the actual view from the garden........
The landscape goes from France to Switzerland to France with the alps going on foreveeeerrrrr and Italy to the side somewhere. When your driving around here you constantly going across border lines, so always have your passport at the ready!!
I am so glad that i am here! It has worked out really well with the family. They are great, people that i would actually get along with on a normal basis anyway. When Xahavia (the man of the house) took me out for my driving lesson (which didn't go too bad, i only took one silly left turning where there were 4 roads to choose to go down! and turned in the road...not aloud to do that apprently!). But anyway, while we were out driving he had a good heart to heart with me saying to just enjoy myself, do things, enjoy the experiecne here basically. They keep saying 'your not here to just look after our kids, your here to have an experience, we know that'. so i eat family meals with them, have good chats about films and books and life in general. Really couldn't have a better family to stay with (unless they were LDS, with would help me with getting to church on Sundays!) Their gonna help set me up with French lessons at the local language school for the year...which will be intertsing...i want to do them, i was just so bad at French at school that i didn't have to do it for GCSE. That with a headmistress that's French!
Next week the real work starts, where I'll actually be on more of a schedule, and so can then start going out to see the sites!
Sorry for the long long post today! But the catch up session had to be done!
So for now i say farewell! I'll write again when i can!
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