Broken foot

I wanted to go in the mountains this weekend. I have a train card that allow me to travel all around the country without paying, and it expires next weekend. My idea was to go up to the Jungfrau, not far from the capital. There is a train that goes up to 3400 m, not far from the summit, and it's something to be done once in a lifetime. As I didn't want to go alone, I asked Erik if he wanted to join, he said he would. I texted him on Friday morning to say that Saturday should be ok with the weather, and asked if it was ok for him. I got no answer, and on the evening he was on MSN, and I asked him again. He just say hi but didn't answered, and I asked him to tell me not too late on the evening, because in the case he woudn't join I said I would go out with some friends. I waited untill 10pm, and got no answer... I was really pissed, he could at least have the courtesy to say something! I don't understand why he says he wants to be my "close friend" and say he wants us to meet, and then just disappear... I guess I should stop to have any contact with him, he just pisses me off, and I never get anything good in return.

After that I called a friend of mine, and we went to town. I was really angry, and got drunk. Even with that I won twice at pool. The girl I was with was the one that is in love with me and try to get me laid. She tried once more, but this time at least I didn't get punched. I don't know what to say to her more that I don't want to do anything else than to be friends. I don't want to stop to see her, because she's nice and we have fun most of the time, but if she goes on like that...

Yesterday night I went out with Sarah. No luck for her... it was ice everywhere, and she felt and broke her foot. I thought she was exagerating a bit when she said she was in pain, and told her the the best thing was to go home and stay still, I brought her home, and she asked if it was not better to go to the hospital, and I said she had better have a good night of sleep and that the day after it would be better. She went to the hospital this morning and came out with a big plaster, and the doctors said it would have been much better to come earlier to avoid complications :S I hope she's not too mad at me for saying it was not that bad...

A perfect weekend! Oh, and I forgot to mention that my sister is officially dating drunkard #2, good for her...

Gay activism/extremism

I read in the newspapers and on some blogs recently that after prop8 passed in California, some gay activists recolted informations about the financing of the campaign and put them on the web. From what I understood, a law allow any people to know who gave money to support the campaign. Some activists called for boycott of those who financed, and gave names, adresses, and even reported some people, shops, or companies involved, on googlemaps.

I must say that I was shocked by that, because it seems to go against many fundamental principles of a democratic state, and in my opinion, it's an extremist behaviour. Gay activism is good, but anybody, any group of interest has to respect some basic rules, that are the pillars of democracy.

First of all, it's an attack on the freedom of thinking. Everybody is allowed to think what they want whether you like it or not. To boycott somebody in order to make him think what you want is not desirable because it doesn't allow to have a free opinion, and is also stupid: it doesn't work, and I would say it even comfort the thinker in his position. It has to be banned because the freedom of thinking is the basic need of a democracy. Everyone should also be allowed to express this opinon, especially on the political scene, and therefore to support politicians who bring the ideas on the scene. Some people supported prop8, some gay people supported the campaign against it. I don't see why only one side should be allowed to support the campaign and then suffer the consequences of the financing.

The kind of gay activists that put names, adresses, or any informations that they put on blogs/sites/maps etc are using the same means that they are trying to ban when used against the gay community. What if the supporters of prop8 were putting the names of every gay guys and girls that supported the no on prop 8 on a map? It would be considered as intolerable, and it is all the same intolerable to do that to prop8 supporters.

The informations laws are made to give an idea of the ammounts that are recolted, and show the lobbies that supported a campaign, not to punish some people to pay for their ideas to be voted. What was done with the informations found by this way is clearly an abuse of this law.

The gay community needs arguments, needs to convince the people, in order to obtain some rights. The boycott seldom give any results, for it comforts the people in their position, it strengthen the opposition instead of installing the dialog that is needed.

Art

Since I was able to walk, my mother used to take me to museums, or galleries, here or abroad, and she made me discover art. As far as I remember, and contrary to my sister, I always loved to go to the museums. My favourite one was the zoological collection in my town. It's a museum of the end of the 18th century, very old fashioned, with old showcases full from bottom to top with animals and hand written papers with the scientific names on it.

When I was a bit older, she started to bring me in museums abroad, in Paris, Geneva, Basel, Barcelona, and made me discover some of my favourite artists. I will always remember this exhibition showing artworks of both Calder and Miro, it was one of the greatest discovery for me. I love Miro's blue paintings, big blue paintings, with some touches of yellow, red, and white.

Yesterday, I went to one of the most beautiful museums of Switzerland, it's the fondation Beyeler in Basel. The building is from Renzo Piano, a very famous italian architect. I love to see some exhibition there, because the conditions are really good. The ceilling is made of glass, wich provides natural lightning. In one room, which is next to a pool, there is one of Monet's "les Nymphéas". The pool reflexes the sunlight, and the painting seems to be moving, as if it was real water. It's beautiful, and very relaxing.

There was an exhibition of 20th century art (Picasso, Miro, Klee, Rothko, Mondrian,...) mixed with primitive artworks from Polynesia, Papouasia, and other countries. It was very interesting, to see these both totally different form of arts, and though the numerous similitudes, echoes. It's not totally random, because many of these artists were inspired by the primitive arts

 I don't know many things about primitive arts, but I always enjoy to see it. When I was 15, I was sent to Oxford for a month to study english, and as I had a lot of free time, I went to see some museums. I visited the Pitt River's collection, and I found it awesome! It was a big room in a victorian building, full of objects, boats, reduce Jivaros heads, totems... It was like entering a treasure room, being lost between Amazonia and Java. I heard that the museum will be reorganized, and that it will be adapted to modern museography, and I find it a bit sad, because it's this anarchic pileup of objects that I loved so much, maybe because it reminded me of my room... :)

I have to find some money to visit other exhibitions around the world. I want to go back to Paris, Barcelona, and discover other famous museums such as the Met in New-York, or the Guggenheim. I sent my application file to get a new job, wich would be paid 700 $ a month, and I hope to get it. It would maybe allow me to travel a bit next year! I've never crossed the atlantic, and it's one of my short term aims.

Just for fun

I just found these two videos totally hillarious... I can't stop laughing. I hope that the one with the presentator is fake :D

Last days of vacation

The lessons will start again on monday. I'm looking forward to it, to see my friends again, to listen to professors that speak french, to be in a known place where things works. I'll have to choose my specialisation in a few month, I'm studying the law, and I have to choose in what domain I want to go further. It's a hard decision to take, considering that it will set the track for the rest of my career... I'm interested the most on penal law, but it's not where I have the best grades, so I will have to put everything into the balance.

Today I have the last lesson with the kids at school. It has been quite enjoying so far. I was a bit affraid at first, but everything went very well. I have a natural good contact with kids, and they usually are really nice to me and obey me when I ask them to, without putting their feet on the walls as some other friends of mine experienced. I'm only replacing their usual teacher who is sick, and they said they wanted me to take her place, I was touched but it's not my choice :) and anyway, I won't have anytime this semester.

I heard from Yasmin that I have become kind of a celebrity in her mother's village, it's a small village where everybody knows everybody, and she told all the mothers about "the good swiss christian" and a lot of them asked if she could bring me to Turkey so that they would introduce their girls to me :D I find that really funny, if she knew everything... and if only I could find someone who could do the same with boys! I'm loosing some really good opportunities. Yasmin introduced me (once more) to one of her cousin, who is an astonishingly beautiful, nice and clever girl, and she doesn't understand why I'm so distant with every nice girl she introduces to me. I'm still wondering if I should tell her. She can't hold her tongue, and I'm a bit worried of the consequences... I already told her that I can find someone by myself, and that I would prefer her to stay out of my sentimental affairs, but she says "pff, definitely not true, you're still single, you have to find someone, and I'm going to help you". mmm...

The visit

Tyler just went, he paid me a visit from Basel. We ate so much during these three days that I'm not able to go out of my bed anymore :) I'm definitely going to work out tomorrow! It was really nice, we did a lot of things, like the perfect tourists, amongst them we visited Geneva, the United Nations historical building, went to buy a swiss watch for him and I thought we were going to be attacked in the shop, it was quite hum... suprising: Two guys were fighting outside, and they broke a window by throwing each other on it... the seller told us to hide while he was calling the cops because he thought they were robbing the shop, a lot of agitation :S

Yesterday we went to have a drink with some friends of mine, my sister, a friend of her, and later on with the more or less new boyfriend. The friend of my sister was really handsome, and he was looking me right in the eyes and smilling all the time, I thought that maybe he could be gay, but my sister says he's crazy about her... I don't know, because during all the night he didn't speak to my sister at all, but only to me... We went to a pub were I never had been before, my sister proposed it, and I asked her why, she didn't want to tell me but when I saw one guy coming and taking her into his arms, I got it. We went at the table where he was with some friends, and they were all completely drunk, to the point that I couldn't even understand what language they were speaking. I think she found another drunkard to replace the other one :/

Dry Martini

This is my first real day off since August, and it's soooooo fucking good!!! I woke up around 9, thought about going to fitness, but slept for another two hours instead. I took a nice breakfast: bred, honey and jam, tee, coffee, fresh orange juice. I chilled in my living room for two hours, listening to music, and then headed to IKEA with my grandmother. There are a lot of swedish people around here that are working for big companies, and their sons and girls very often work for IKEA during the holiday. So there are a bunch of blond fit guys working there, wich makes the visit much more attractive :P

I bought some bed linen, swedish beer, and coktail glasses. I have a lot of glasses, and I usually serve the right things in the right glasses, but I missed some glasses for coktails, the ones with a triangle shape, that are quite classy. I'm just back from the apero with some friends, and before cooking, I'm testing the glasses: dry Martini, jazz music (Take Five at this very right moment), and after that a good piece of beef meat. It's a perfect day :)

Tommorow, I'm going to fitness, and to work on the afternoon. I get this job at the school, and it works much better than what I had thought. The kids are really nice, and I could maintain calm during the two hours we have together each day. They are doing their homework, and I have to make sure they do it correctly, and for the moment it's going all fine.

Tyler (my american roomate from Basel) is coming to pay a visit for the weekend, I will make him taste some nice things, better than Pizza Hut and Macdonalds. He thinks suchi is something european... I have a lot of things to teach him :D I'm already preparing everything, I will show him what the swiss hospitality is. Being at Charlie's is like being in a five star palace ;)

Snowy sunday

I got bored today... Sarah was supposed to come here this morning with the breakfast, but she got drunk yesterday evening with my sister (because now they apparently go out without asking me to come with them, very nice) and she couldn't wake up. I had nothing to eat (I was counting on her, it was snowing outside, and I wasn't courageous enough to go to the backery) the last thing that was in my cupboard was a pack of crisps, healthy breakfast! I watched several episode of "weeds". The serie is ok, but the main reason why I watch it is Hunter Parrish :P

I got a call from the boyfriend of my mother around noon, he asked me if I wanted to come over and watch the final in Melbourne. I went there and we watched it with him and my mother. Federer lost after a great match, I love to see him play against Nadal.

Yesterday we went to the restaurant with my mother and her boyfriend, he invited us (my mother, my sister and I). It was in my favourite restaurant, a very good one. I had some lobster bisque, and then a big piece of fish, whose name I dont know in english, "loup de mer". It was wonderfully prepared, I loved it. After dessert, we went to have a coffee and cognac in a big palace-hotel in the city center. The boyfriend is really nice, he makes me laugh, he's so clumsy, it's a permanent show :) Since we first met, he invite us to do a lot of things. From what I know he's never been married and has no kids. I think he wants to make things in family. It's nice of him, but I'm a bit too old for this kind of things... When I was living with my mother after the divorce, we stopped doing things "in family" because it was very tense between us, and now, it seems a bit artificial to me. I find it a bit awkward... plus I don't know why, but I feel a bit guilty to make things with them, as if I were doing something on my father's back. Well... it's a new situation, and I have to get used to it. They have to understand that although I'm not anymore a 14yo bitchy boy as I was with my stepmother, and although I accept it and I am happy for them, it's something important to have someone new in the family.

I came back here after tennis, and stayed in my couch for hours, surfing the net for stupid or horny things... I'm not tired at all, although I'd like to sleep, because I have a long day tommorow. I start at 7 am and have work until 7:45 pm... I still work at the hospital, and I get this job with the kids, and I will start tommorow... I'm not sure that I can handle this, alone. It will be a test. I just pray not to be with crazy kids as the ones I got last week, it was a mess... It took us (me and the woman that was in charge) 20 minutes to calm the kids and make them work. It was a rough introduction. And this time I will be alone :S The trainer said the supervisor that I was great and had a really good contact with the kids, but if I had been alone, I'm not sure I could have been able to calm the class down.

Please cross your fingers for me... If I can still stand after this day, I will tell you how it worked.

Winter sports

Why did my parents never teach me how to ski/surf???