fly

fly
Originally uploaded by blueolive.

I just realized in my last minute double checking that somehow i chose a plane ticket that leaves geneva at 1:30 and arrives in Zurich enroute to Munich at 2pm leaving me in said city of Zurich for 3.5 hours. I dont know if this will be enough time to go anywhere, probably not, but anything is possible right? It also means i am taking a big book.
Tonight i will be arriving in Munich to see my long unseen cousin and meet his friends and possibly some of my distant relatives; Should have invested in a german english OR french dictionary. ah well, an adventure it will be!

TS is currently in Annecy a beautiful little town that happens to be aware of how attractive it is, and plays it up for the tourisits. dispite this waltdisney like feeling-i have found what they use for inspiration in the EURope secion of disney land-- it is still beautiful and has lived in places and arcades (covered walk ways) canals, and the first public space ive seen with a rainbow sticker in the window. ITs been closed everytime ive gone,except for once when i had to catch a train and i went in to ask how long it would take me to reach the train station...just becquse i wanted to see inside, and i had to catch my train .

TS spent the rainy half of yesterday in geneva to return to me, a cold-ridden and exhausted scatter brained but happy host... we celebrated purim over fondu, narrating the story in our costumes (me, a hat, TS blue slippers and later a drapey scarf). We drank the last tiny bottles i had saved of hard apple cider and ate chese melted on bread with figs, owl and frog shaped chocolates and some moose droppings imported from...oh, say canuduh.

It is 10 46 am; i need to be at home and locking my door by 11 so I am off.
wish me luck.
dont know the name of the hotel im going to.
hahahhahah

fly by the seat of your pants doesnt actually have a direct translation into french

but it can be experienced in french,regardless.

a bientot

rain

rain
Originally uploaded by blueolive.

We all wanted to know how rain and snow happen right? this way i dont have to guess.

I learned that ruler has one l. i spelled it with 2 lol. One of my youngest students kindly pointed out the discrepency, but mostly to wonder why the paper didn't match my board example. awww
also it is UN regle in french as i was corrected gently by my other excellent student, Just so i would know, she tells me politely and kindly. aw these kids are great.
You should have seen the eyes on one of the mischevious ones today. just be fore he tucked them away because he was going to get in trouble-- have you ever watched a child tuck thier mischief away?
This child has the roundest head and the most beautiful eyes.

interesting fact: it must have something to do with living in the mountains but everyone here seems to talk in altitudes. oh it snowed at ___ meters or it is sunny above ___. Also distances to local cities are randomly marked in areas you would never think to look confirm my observation of this obsession. Just across from my street on the local through street is a tiny shin high cement marker indicating in red and white paint the distance to Geneva and the distance from Bonneville. TIny marker, kind of hidden like gas markers in the grass.

I have woken up to Spring; suddenly I cant remember how to account for the last 6 months of my life. Wild. Except for my vacations and occasional events and strong emotions, that are tied to my memory by colours and people. After an enlightening few days of sun and re-aquainting with old friends and maybe-friends and even some new friends I am ready to accomplish everything i haven't managed to accomplish. OH no. That's right. I'm back.
I also slept.
So, dispite this cold that hit at 10 am yesterday, HELLO!.

I will interrupt this broadcast to say, yes we are still taking mail here in annem.

Local/future plans aside, recent time spent with J-- long lost and much missed, first friend to visit and see my current life/living location-- has infused me with inspiration.

That and all sorts of deserved success in the lives of the people I love has added to the bouyancy of my moods. My OAC english (creative writing) teacher would note that feelings cant be bouyant. I am also suspicious of the spelling.

The sunny summer-like weather introduced me to the possibility of life beyond winter here in the region and I am looking forward to it. I am, it turns out, either really lazy, or just not a skiier. I think it's the latter. I did how ever start running. (yep i have run twice, usually however i have to tie it into goingsomewhere, but hey, carry a towel and you can freshen up when you get there is my new motto.

(like new is to motto what temporary is to tatoo.)

THe equation of hope goes like this: Getting OUT: finding ACCESS to social justice organizing and careers: also known as breathing space for my brain and future:
incarnated in a recent
International Human rights Film festival/panel in Geneva with representatives from all sorts of NGO's often presenting films or speakers in english with multi lingual translation over headsets. This reminded me of the things that get me thinking and energized and focused-- empassioned might be the word if we werent talking about issues such as torture, homosexuality and the (oppressive) state in the developing/ 2/3s world, and the questions surrounding Humanitarian aid and political reality in areas such as Darfour, Sudan--
That i even remember any of these topics is amazing. Just when i thought my mind was going.

Also, in one or two of the conferences someone made the connection between civil society, artists, awareness, local governments and impact on these things on global social change.

Imagine. In an internationally infused environment. amazing


So real world +recent company+ a brush with this tall beautiful spanish woman in a pin-striped jacket and the most awesome voice you've ever heard,(as retained by my awestruck memory, and thus absoloutely reliable...)
followed by a round of chess in the park drawing a mexican coach
( i was 'strategizing 'so embarassingly people felt the need to stand and laugh. I can take a dose of humility for a photo opp and a top rate park-at-night-in-geneva, Switwerland_with-awesome-J experience) (mental throat clearing...right: all of this
has
infused me with local time elation.

5 short days of great comany. I wont even packege it up and send it to my future self yet as "that time i was in paris/that time you visited me in the Alps"

This stuff is too good to let go of just yet. instead I ran into geneva for the 3rd day of the film festival, just to catch some of the after aura of our days...or rather nights
CAtalyst:
Dear J thanks for the excellent and energizing company; for the gift of lovely lovely lovely you.

It is tuesday. I have spent another 6 days just happy knowing you were in the same country. I know you are out of the country by now because it is grey here.
But it smells like summer through the rain drops.

I laughed at most of my kids today. I had a great time performing the three little pigs. Im considering organizing an english childredn's theatre event.

lol actually i just am trying to thinkof imaginary ways to make money.

In the mean time
i must clean up my now messy appartment for my next short visit. TS may not have traditional toilet paper to welcome her

but at least the kitchen table will be clear.

priorities of course!

The fresh croissants

croisants
Originally uploaded by blueolive.

And once there were three...

Ode to J who has come from so far

a lovely whirlwind paris ;
Actually the pace has been more like gentle breeze...into paris,
along the river,
rising from sleep only to eat
and waking from the stouper of this Paris dream filled with flying buttresses and flaming gothic expectations,giggles
only to satiate our hunger by pealing yet another orange; another bit of cheese; bread, perhaps an overpriced cafe;
again

the fresh croissant
and the rhino


i am inspired to start my own band
instruments to be discussed later
here to be informed it will be named
"the fresh croissants and the rhino
spelling included"






and this breeze has brough the best weather ever, we are drinking in sunlight;
This is good
great
ode to a weekend of three spent treading on cobble stone streets and discovering medeval fortresses and soakign in the dusty pink purple and blue streeked sky
sun setting on vanilla buildings
and slate roofs
peanut butter and
ny bagles meet paris;

snow

snow
Originally uploaded by blueolive.

Last night is snowed huge snowflakes. the late evening sunrays were trapped under the blanket, and i left the shutters open. i used to love walkig around a dark house with just the light of the fresh snow calmly lighting my little burrow of an appartment, and lastnight it was a perfect occasion to stay in and read. yes, i read. Today the world was slow starting, but warmer. i think i'd call it beautiful. i went swimming for the first time on tuesday but chickened/slothed-out today out of laziness-- that and i have an amazing tallent for letting time slip by. i did however get a bunch of beats and é onions from local producers for market prices at the market. i read instead of swimming. my neurons could use a little limbering up any way. now i have 15 minutes to try to book a plane ticket and get to my tutoring session... any one else see the negative time arithimatic im doing?
no more time to ponder
just a bit of my day...
slothy slothy slothy, but sunny :)

i'm back---

i'm back---
Originally uploaded by blueolive.

this generally depicts how i feel; humour included.

Today to spice it up a little in the double class i gave to the CM 1 (grade 4s) i had a great deal of fun by coopting the choices of names they could use to fill in our song sheet (the rock hit single "don't forget your hat" sung to the modified tune of that other one hit wonder "the wheels on the bus"). i think you would have laughed to see it. had you seen me, a mischievious little smile would have been pushing at my cheeks and the eyes would have been doing some sort of twinkle...a long distance call out to people i love by a chorous of 23 little voices. lol. I do what i can to amuse myself.

THis is how i get relief from inundating myself with papers...

there is a fine line between thinking hard and anxiety. trying to burrow through the time the papers are filling up-- in a very physical way, you should see my bedroom--so that i can be my own best company and challenger.

Thud.
ha hahahahahaha.
i am actually laughing right now.