The main thing I've done since the last update, other than being in Dublin, is go to Geneva to meet a friend who's just starting a new job there and helping her to get set up in a new city. It was nice to be able to Do Things with my oh-so-rusty French (and doubly frustrating to come back to Zurich with my non-existent German). We crossed the border every evening and morning as she's staying in a hotel just inside France.
Sunset in France.
The UN at the far side of a plaza with fountains and a broken-chair sculpture. I'm sure it means something very profound.
I hung out in the sunshine in this park, which seems to be dedicated to the massacres in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Srebrenica. You can't see it that well in this picture, but there's a sculpture of a gun with its muzzle tied in a knot.
Other than that, the materials for my next set of OU courses have arrived! I have fat coursebooks for Volcanoes, Earthquakes and Tsunamis (plus a 'Teach Yourself' book), Understanding Human Nutrition, Human Genetics and Health Issues (plus a DVD) and Living Without Oil: Chemistry for a Sustainable Future. I'm still wondering if I made the right last-minute choice to go with nutrition instead of nuclear energy, but I'm looking forward to the course anyway. The plan is to do two courses (probably genetics and nutrition) for the first deadline, and the other two (seismology and alternative energy) for the second deadline in October. And then... the mammoth Introduction to Science course, unless I decide by then that I'm not going into scientific translation.
And I'm going to Japan next weekend. I keep forgetting that. I ordered my currency early yesterday morning and it turned up at 08:15 this morning (when I was still in bed. Swiss Post is too efficient at times). I will need to spend tomorrow shopping for gifts. The to-do list has got to get shorter soon!
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