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The next two weekends I stayed in Geneva. Was Ida’s last weekend in Switzerland so there was a party for her. For some reason she wanted everyone to dress up as cowgirls and we had serious fun dancing around Tabitha’s house rocking out to country music. Love that so many Europeans have a fascination for all things Western-American (there is a bar called Cheval (horse in French) in Verbier that has cowboy license plates all over the walls including lots of Teton County Wyoming ‘22′ plates. Giggle Giggle.

Skied at Le Crozet in the Jura. Then to Sunday Night “family dinners” at Fadmar’s house. Pamela cooked a typical Chilean dish. Yummy.

Next Saturday was another Carnival in Bern. Major fun dancing in the streets with all the Swiss families dressed in costume and playing music all over town. Sunday was a hike in the Jura with and then Gerhard made Austrian breakfast for family dinner night.

Took Madalena to the Natural History museum in Geneva and it was so much fun watching how excited she was to see all the animals. She is such a good kid.

Found a place in Geneva that offers Salsa dancing lessons for rythmically challenged persons such as myself. Good fun. Am trying to go every Tuesday.

Have FINALLY started French classes. J’mapelle Saja!
Is a bit overwhelming at first due to the immersion technique (The teacher only speaks french, not a word of any other language) but I think this is the fastest way to learn. Its probably a good thing there are no other native English speakers in the class so I can’t cheat. Until now I butcher the pronunciation of everything with my American accent, or default to really bad Spanish pronunciation which surely sounds bizarre. Rolling the r in merci gets you some pretty strange looks. Must work on that.

This past weekend my host family was extremely generous and offered their Chalet in Verbier. I went up Thursday afternoon, had a lovely day on the mountain Friday. The girls came up Friday night and we found some fun aprés ski. Saturday was a glorious warm sunny day on the slopes. Then a bit more aprés ski. Sunday we were all a bit exhausted and it was so warm we decided to forgo skiing in favor of lawn chairs. Wonderful lazy day with a yummy brunch and playing Apples to Apples, the most fun card game ever.

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