At War

These are the given circumstances:

We have two opponents fighting each other: A and B
B invaded A's territory and A then decides to go to war against B and kill all Bs. All of them.
B's army exceeds A's army in numbers unfortunately because A's army really only has one warrior, whereas B's is sort of like countless. OK, there is an advantage, But: A is about 1000 times larger than all of the Bs. A exceeds B by far in muscular strength. A's seeing, hearing and all other sensing devices are highly developed, B doesn't have any. A can move at a speed immeasurably much faster than B. A has good weapons, such as all imaginable tools to crash B and poisonous gas. B again, doesn't have any.

Should be an easy call. Shock and Awe, 1 day and all Bs are gone. Right? right?

Bush was not the last one to think that way.

I did so too!! And I'm very very wrong.
A = Me; B = Worms

After a long and disgusting battle a few weeks ago, the worms acted as if they were gone. That was clever. I didn't count on them to do that. In the meanwhile I put all the new food in these plastic containers, were worms can not enter. While they were hiding though, they mutated. Now they have come back and they can enter anywhere: into unopened packages, plastic containers, walls, wood... simply everywhere. Warrior A is hopeless.
But alright, if the worms want to take this battle onto a whole different level, so be it. On Wednesday I will expand my army. A professional Kammerjäger will come and help me. For 250 Franks. Great.

The Beauty of Berne

For one year have I been living in Berne already. But never have I set out to truely discover the surroundings. I started on Saturday. I was swept off my feet. Look for yourself.







Thank you Sergio and Mere for taking me with you. It was a fantastic day. I hope the next time will be soon!

Exams over and right into the 3rd semester

Yes, exams are over. No, results have not come out yet. For that you will have to wait some more weeks...
The general feeling is alright, not overwhelming though.

But enough of that. Exams were over on Thursday afternoon and then I hit it off into a fantastic weekend of happy free time, the last one before the start of the University. Time was well spent: Partying, seeing my sister in Geneva (she is now officially master of international relations, hihiiii, congrats!), having fondue with friends, (mmmmmm fondüüüü), a beautiful hike in the "Bernese Overland" (see next post) and cleaning my room in great detail, including drawers, cupboards, binders, folders, getting rid of lots of stuff.

As you can see: I'm ready for my 3rd semester! Well recovered from exams and well prepared for new studying (...well, maybe I should have included applying for all the classes that require application in my preparation... but well, I will fix that somehow)

University life rocks.

My life in the "Biblio"

This is a short review of my life of the past 3 weeks:

Usual Day:
- Get up at 7:30, shower, breakfast and half an hour of reading newspapers
- Go to the library (=Biblio) to study
- Coffee break :-)))))
- study
- lunch :-)))))
- study
- coffee break :-))))
- study
- go home :-))))
- do anything but studying

Side activities: Convince Sergio to come to coffee break 15 minutes earlier, make grocery lists, stare at all the books in the bookshelves, watch other people, think about my future, play around with the light.

Main challenges: keeping my coffee breaks at 10 - 15 minutes and not 50 - 60, don't focus on the books in the bookshelves and think about what students of other faculties might be caring about right now, don't try to guess what my neighbor is studying.

Doesn't sound very exciting?? Well, it's actually not so bad. Seriously, I wish I would have discovered that studying in the library is much cooler than at home one year ago!
But I'm still sort of glad that it's over on Thursday. I hope I'm ready: Exams tomorrow, Wednesday and Thursday.

Women have taken over

My pretty apartment has for a long time been occupied by men. It looked very male when I moved in. Then one year it was half male half female and now, a whole new era has begun: The swedish-swiss-all-girls-place!
Now finally, we had our first, real, undisturbed evening together and I think the combination of us promises to turn out quite cool. So far there was a Thai dinner, very very nice deserts, chocolate, a long talk about love-life and food, coffee and ...oh yeah, a worm invasion (we ended that one).
On the plan: go jogging together once a week (hmmmm), movie night and more dinner, chocolate, coffee, fruit, self created recepies, tea, go out, no more worms.

I'm looking forward for the next few months together with you, Johanna. We are gonna rock this place!


And Chregi, I'm still missing you. How could I ever not?
I'm thinking of you.

Teamday and ACT

Thursday morning, the EB (Executive Board) of AIESEC in Bern gathered to have their mid-term Teamday in Leissigen (close to Interlaken). It was an day of intense discussions, planning, and lots of results, but also a lot of fun. It brought me back into the Bernese reality of our organisation and back to my EB as a team, which is good. I know AIESEC in Bern is gonna do good in this semester.


By the way, the Jugi in Leissigen is the most beautiful Jugi I have ever seen. It used to be the summer residence of Mr. Wander (the Ovomaltine Guy), a beautiful old wooden house directly by the lake, with a small park around it with an astonishing view. Visit it, it's worth it and a perfect location for a Teamday.

The day after, ACT started in Kandersteg. ACT is the conference for all the Swiss EB members, to get more functional knowledge for the job and to learn about the global and national strategic direction of the organisation. It was very good to see many friends again and the MC definitely did a good job on this conference.
Just that I had 2 problems: Through my work in Thailand, I gained a lot of knowledge so that in this conference, there wansn't so much that was new to me. So in that sense I didn't benefit as much as I hoped. The other problem was that I have exams coming up in one week and really have to use my time to study.
So I had to compare the gain from being in Kandersteg to the risk I'm running, which let me to leave the conference one day early.
It was not something I enjoyed doing, but I had to. Thank you MC and EB for understanding.

Lagerweg under attack

I came home to Bern yesterday, suspecting nothing bad as I entered the kitchen, and I could barely trust my eyes...
I opened the cupboard where we keep all the rice, pasta, cookies etc. and about 5 black things would shout in my face. They looked like flies, but the so weren't flies. I instantly knew, we have a problem. Those black things are the grown up version of what we know in German as Maden or in English Larvae. And there were not only 5 of them... as soon as I started moving things around, dozens of them would fly away. After some minutes I discovered that actually every centimeter of that cupboard is covered in little white worms, some of them not even being that little. I was in shock.
But the horror continued: I backed up a little I saw that actually the worms were coming out of the cupboard all over the places and the the whole thing also on the outside is covered with the bastards. As I realized that, I took a closer look at the room.... I now imagine: The walls and the ceiling are covered with them!!! The whole room is under attack. I almost through up. I can barely believe I didn't notice them right away.
What followed was a massive throwing-away-all-our-food action by Johanna (who, I guess you could say, was in a far greater shock than me) and me. For poor Johanna this was quite a blow, since she had a lot of very good food in there, some of it did not look cheap and some she had brought back from Sweden.
And that does not even solve our problem, because the worms are still all over the kitchen and everything is covered in eggs.
I guess we will have to get a professional to do the job. :-(