Tuesday, 31 July 2007

Little Britain -You are beautiful prime minister

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Sunday, 29 July 2007

My past weekends


Recruitment Taskforce in Bern


LCP Weekend in Delémont

Picnic with LC Geneva and Lausanne in Geneva

Another weekend is over (almost). I'm having a cold, but I'm already feeling better.

Another weekend of productive meetings and outcome. We have created the recruitment material for AIESEC in Switzerland. The LCP Weekend the weekend before, meetings in Geneva the weekend before that weekend.

Another weekend of time spent with amazing people. People that give you the positive energy and motivation to go on (even if you are having fever and should be in bed).

Another weekend that I'm grateful for. Thank you everyone!

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Tuesday, 24 July 2007

Perfectly happy


Today was one of those days that make you realize, that small things can make you happier than any big event in your life.
I woke up with my cat Ronja jumping on my feet and making herself comfortable on them (see picture, that my father took :)). Thanks to that I had enough time to sit down, drink a coffee and read the newspaper and have a relaxed breakfast (with Ronja, trying to get some sleep elsewhere (see other picture)).
Then we (my father and I) drove my mother to work and we had a great chat in the car, planning our summer in Sweden and how we are going to fit our 10 million guests (o.k., I'm exaggerating here) into our houses.
While I was walking towards my working place, the air smelled of rain and it reminded me so much of my Interrail trip in England, making me simmer with excitement thinking of the next one.
When I started my computer, I went on facebook and found among others a message from a girl I got to know during my exchange year in Mexico. I hadn't spoken to her for (hmmm... let's think) 5 years.
Before starting to work, I went to get a black tea with milk and sugar... a very powerful drink that makes me remember many good moments...
Now, if you are wondering, how I had time to do all this before I started working sharp 8 o'clock: I got up at 5.30, but it was so worth it!

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Sunday, 22 July 2007

On the road... in Switzerland

I just spent a fantastic weekend in Delémont with the other LCPs and the MC of Switzerland. I had a great time and got a lot of useful inputs in regards to the rest of my term as President of the Local Committee of Geneva (for those who don't know what I'm talking about when I'm saying LCP :)). But most of all I had many great discussions and a lot of fun.



I've been travelling a lot through Switzerland the past few weeks. Thinking back, I hardly remember, where I was at what time.



Let's see... After having finished the exams and the EB Days, I went to Bern on Saturday for the MC Transition Party. That night I drove back to Baden (my parent's place). Sunday afternoon I went back to Bern again, to have a meeting. Then I was working for a week, often going to Zurich in the evening to meet some friends. On Saturday evening I then went to Zurich for the Züri Fescht where I slept in the LC Zurich office. On Sunday morning I went directly from Zurich to Geneva by train, to hand over my flat in Geneva to a friend (who stayed there for a week) and then have a meeting in the afternoon. The same day I went back to Baden. Then again a week of work, and again going to Zurich from time to time. Then on Saturday morning I went back to Geneva, to have a picnic with the LC Lausanne. It was an amazing day by the lake. On Sunday I had 4 meetings and then I went back to Baden in the evening. Again a week of work. And again in Zurich from time to time. On Friday I left to Delémont. And voilà, after having spent some hours in Zurich, I'm back in Baden. I'm exhausted, but that might be normal looking back on the past 3 weeks.

Well, this week I'm planning to take it easy (but looking at all the things I have to do, probably not). At least I will catch up some sleep. Really need it.

On Saturday I will be back in Bern, for a Recruitment Task Force. And then one more week of work, and I'll be in Sweden.

Time is flying once more and I feel like I get nothing done. Everything is extremely intensive at the moment. I'm just going with the flow, surprised over and over again about what life is letting me experience. Enjoying it one moment and the next moment drinking a coffee to overcome the fatigue, wondering why I'm doing it.

So, I will sleep now. Another day is waiting for me...

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Thursday, 19 July 2007

Missing Ireland...

The past years I went to Ireland once a year... This year I can't go... :( Had a great talk with an Irish guy living in Geneva and we talked about the live music in pubs... The most beautiful thing... Just reminded me how much I miss it!

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Tuesday, 17 July 2007

A Bit of Fry and Laurie - Censored

After my comment on facebook: I'm reading Stephen Fry and I can't stop laughing (great book by the way), people have asked me who Stephen Fry is. Well, here he is. I'm a big, big fan! Here together with Hugh Laurie, who most of you at the moment know from Dr. House.
Enjoy! :)

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Me and Ronja


I want to dedicate some lines to my wonderful cat Ronja. Everyone who knows me, knows how crazy I am about her. She is the most intelligent and adorable cat. Of course, every cat owner says that, but who cares. It's amazing how much happiness she brings into my life.


When I call her, she comes running. When I talk to her, she answers miaowing. When I go to bed, she lays her paw on my book to get my attention. Loving her!

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Friday, 13 July 2007

Absorbing impressions...

What a week... So many feelings and recurring thoughts... So many intense moments... So many good conversations...
Through intricate motions ran
Stream and gliding sun
And all my heart seemd gay:
Some stupid thing that I had done
Made my attention stray.
Repentance keeps my heart impure;
But what am I that dare
Fancy that I can
Better conduct myself or have more
Sense than a common man?
What motion of the sun or stream
Or eyelid shot the gleam
That pierced my body through?
What made me live like these that seem
Self-born, born anew?
W.B. Yeats

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Tuesday, 10 July 2007

In the middle of nowhere...

Det finns stunder
och känslor
man aldrig kan dela
med någon annan
än med sin egen längtan
Carl George Persson
I'm longing for something... Anticipating other things... Feeling drained... Grateful... Thriving... Loosing myself... Finding myself again... Undergoing a change... Leaving some things behind...
So I'm letting myself go... Pausing... Curious what is coming next... But not ready to go on this journey yet... I defer it indefinitely...

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Monday, 9 July 2007

Stop the Clash of Civilizations

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Friday, 6 July 2007

The beer prayer

Well... At work not everything has to be serious, right? Look what I found on the notice board today:

Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk,
(I will be drunk),
At home as in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us.
And lead us not to incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer,
The bitter and The lager.
Forever and ever,

Barmen

Good old memories: my internship in Ireland. On this picture my boss (on the left), my colleagues and me in the oldest pub in Dublin, right next to my workplace.

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Monday, 2 July 2007

William Butler Yeats

In times like these, when everything goes haywire, I love to read the poems of my favourite poet, William Butler Yeats, to quiet my mind. Here, for those of you who haven't had the pleasure to read something by him, my favourite poem:
The Sad Shepherd

There was a man whom Sorrow named his friend,
And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,
Went walking with slow steps along the gleaming
And humming sands, where windy surges wend:
And he called loudly to the stars to bend
From their pale thrones and comfort him, but they
Among themselves laugh on and sing alway:
And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend
Cried out, Dim sea, hear my most piteous story!
The sea swept on and cried her old cry still,
Rolling along in dreams from hill to hill.
He fled the persecution of her glory
And, in a far-off, gentle valley stopping,
Cried all his story to the dewdrops glistening.
But naught they heard, for they are always listening,
The dewdrops, for the sound of their own dropping.
And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend
Sought once again the shore, and found a shell,
And thought, I will my heavy story tell
Till my own words, re-echoing, shall sing,
And my own whispering words be comforting,
And lo! my ancient burden may depart.
Then he sang soflty nigh the pearly rim;
But the sad dweller by the sea-ways lone
Changed all he sang to inarticulate moan
Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him.

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Sunday, 1 July 2007

Summer plans



For a long time, my summer consisted of vague plans.

Too many oportunities clashed with the fact that I have no financial ressources left and the uncertainty created because of people leaving and entering my life seemed to add an additional element of insecurity.
It seems that I have finally found the right balance and I'm contemplating on what I want to reach for myself by the end of this summer.
I will be working at ABB in Turgi for 5 weeks now (maybe an additional 3 weeks at the end of August), starting on Monday. I already worked there last year and I enjoyed it, so it will be nice having a fixed routine for once (even though I know that after 1 week I will miss my student life). In addition there are loads of things to be done for AIESEC and my weekends are already overloaded with possible things to do with my friends, so I'm not quite sure how I will manage yet. Depending on if I passed my exams or not, I will have to go to the "ratrapage" and redo some exams at the end of August.

On the 4th or 5th of August I will be leaving for Sweden for 2 weeks. I had plans to go to different conferences in Europe or to Irleand for some weeks, but when I confronted my parents with the idea, they told me: "Sara, you don't have the money to do so. Just come to Sweden with us and rest for 2 weeks, doing nothing. You need it!" And they are right. It's good having parents like them, supporting you wherever they can and at the same time reminding you from time to time that you don't have to run after every opportunity that is being offered to you.

Sweden will be great, it's so peaceful. I'm having friends visiting me and I'm looking forward to spend some quiet days doing nothing (which involves doing a lot in the end :)). We are having 2 summer houses in the south of Sweden, even though my parents orginally come from Falun.

Here some impression from past years...

Me on öland camping with some friends

The Rolltorps-lake 500m from our house (where you are all by yourself)

Beautiful coast lines, the sea is just 15min by car from our other house

History wherever you go...

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