Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Still Alive, Still Eating Cheese

I have graced Switzerland with my presence for six weeks now and I am still alive, the child is also, more importantly, and I can now feel assured that if I ever were to breed I may be an acceptable parent. Nether-the-less Irish comedian Dylan Moran's skit on children merely being midget drunks cannot be closer to the truth. For your amusement -


Quite simply, best comedian ever. But it has been great looking after his Lordship, you forget how much simpler everything is as a child and how logical children can be. Thank goodness for the language barrier or the poor large-bellied man might have heard Jay questioning the existence of a baby in his tummy. This evening however he had a small breakdown that the compass needle always pointed one way, he couldn't possibly comprehend why west wasn't an available setting. 

- L

Monday, September 17, 2012

Bonjour!

This is my attempt at starting a blog, an idea that always seems good at the time but whether it continues is a different story. I also thought it would be a grand way of writing about my current overseas voyaging experience to the wonderful land of Switzerland. My trip so far has been great and conquering my initial fear of tackling overseas airports was surprisingly easy to my disappointment. I left the wonderful city of Wellington, New Zealand on the 14th August with my first and only dramatic run for my flight as we had been held up by a lovely Chinese lady trying very hard and in painfully slow precision to explain the benefits of call cards. But I was off, and many uncomfortable hours later I arrived in Paris, thankful that my neighboring passenger on the flight had good personal hygiene, and a lack of conversation topics. 


Ahh la belle Paris. I had visited France the year before on a school trip and had been eager ever since to come back. The beautiful architecture, the pleasantly higher standard of dress sense and the blissful unawareness of lung cancer. Twas good to be back. And in the three days I spent there I took the time to wander around the city happily but determined not to look like a tourist, which resulted in a lack of photos. 
Then I took the TGV to Belfort in the south of France where I met the lovely family with which I would be staying with for four months in Switzerland in a little town called Porrentruy.