I haven’t actually had a cheesy walk with Caitlin. I just wanted to tell you about my cheese fest and the events following from mid October to my ‘holiday’ week with Caitlin. We had some fun times and interesting conversations.
Nobody likes to be stereotyped, right? Especially the French, you pick them up on something they have done that’s typically French and the excuses start flowing. So why do I regularly see a man wearing a stripped T-shirt and beret riding his bike down a lane with a baguette in one hand and a cigarette in the other, smelling of onions and wine?! Typical! The English hatred towards the French has started to rear its ugly head from within me the past couple of weeks…not good! I’ll just say now that the French lessons are still happening, ever so slowly! Feel free to test me when I am home, you’ll get a reply of one of two phases I always use, yes, I have added another phrase to my limited French vocabulary!
First check out what I was persuaded to eat for dinner one night…………….
It had been my host Dad’s birthday that week and the mum had bought a ton of really nice expensive cheese from a special shop in Fernery (the very same shop that the French prime minister gets his cheese from apparently). They told me to sit down one night and partake in the goodness of theses cheeses! My family would have been rather excited if they were there, sadly I had to suffer the joy alone! Haha! I will be bringing some back home though. Bacon and brie baguettes Helen!!!
A couple of days later, after the family has left for Paris for a week, I have Caitlin and Chiara over for a little sleep over. It was a proper girls sleepover with face masks and brownies! We watched ‘The Nanny Diary’s’ ironically. The main characters situation was far too similar to my own for my liking! Apart from the lack of a ‘Harved Hottie’, that might actually be appreciated. Anyway, Chiara came out with us to church the next day, which was again rather cool! There have been an unbelievable amount of missionary opportunities whilst I’ve been here. Caitlin and me jump on them every time one comes by! That afternoon Caitlin had to teach a primary lesson in the Geneva Ward so Chiara and me went for a walk through the center of Geneva.
Turns out it was chinks of mirror in the pavement. I was not prepared for a walk through the city in my Sunday cloths, hence these shoes were trashed and had to be chucked that night.
This is one of the trams that runs through Geneva………
It’s what I use to get to institute each week. People are ever so slightly scared that one will ram into the side of you whilst driving.
The city sprawl…………….
We finally found something interesting to visit………
It was gorgeous inside, full of beautiful painted windows with the light of the sun shining through them.
To give you a feel of the place here’s some photos…….
For the rest of my ‘holiday ’ I shared a bed with Caitlin all week. She had to work all week and I had nothing better to do, so I helped her out. It was really just an excuse to hangout with her, but I did get paid for doing so! Score!!! Looking after three boys all day can make you go a bit loopy though. Especially when one of them gets particularly egotistical! Whilst reading to one of the boys and Caitlin (as she cooked) we received the following notes after several interruptions of the same nature.
Have you started reading?............
Apparently we were reading to loud? Haha! It was cracking me up, but the kid just couldn’t get it into his head that just because he wanted to read in his room, it doesn’t mean that the rest of the hose has to be silent. He wouldn’t even compromise by moving into a different room where he wouldn’t hear us. You can guess that when the kid did come to claim ‘his’ book back I refused, because he was so rude, and he now refuses to acknowledge my existence when I am round. Lesson learnt…read harry potter so loud that even the students at Hogwarts surrounded by there magic force field of protection can hear you!
As the week wore on we just wanted to have fun. A lot of late night chats and falling asleep during movies filled our evenings. Then there was a little bit of prep for Halloween!
Pumpkin eyes………….
Caitlin’s host mum is Amazing!!! Both the parents work for the U.N. and have lived in places all over the world. The mum is on the humanitarian side of things, where she is getting some major projects on the move. She travels everywhere, as do her colleagues I guess because one day she brought home some fruit from Thailand that she had got from a charity thing at work. Caitlin and I delved into them naturally.
Nameless spiky fruit………….
The one Caitlin destroyed……….
The fruit was delicious! A random highlight of the week!
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