it's been a while..

i know it's been a while. been busy seeing people i haven't seen since high school and work. catching up is always fun, even if it's with people i never really, actually hung out with. which makes it all even more interesting, no?
i got a new job. well, i didn't actually apply for it, they just asked me to work there. hollister in the paramus mall. i never really wanted to work there, but since i just booked my flight for switzerland in december, i figured, why not? not only is the money coming in not a bad thing, but i can also apply to be a hollister/abercrombie model. and how awesome would it be if people went to shop there and saw my face on the bags/walls? awesome.

not too many adventures lately. except for the fact that my sister thinks i have swine flu. which is highly unlikely. like my friend chris said, im probably just overtired and just getting a bit sick (thanks for making me feel better). and now i have to head to the mall today in this condition. :\ bummer.

that's about it.
much love.
caroline.


(who wouldn't wanna go here in the winter?!)

some pictures from my trip.

"everything is cow shit"


state house - bern


view from our chalet


mother and daughter. too cute.


on the farm.


my favorite plant in the world.

there are a lot more pictures that i could upload, but that would take forever and a half.
enjoy these.
maybe i'll add more later.

and we're back.

i've finally arrived.
sadly.
i'm not THAT happy about it, i actually love it there.
oh well.
only 132 more days before i head back.
now i'm faced with financial aid issues at school.

i'll post more pictures when i upload them all.

much love.

the car adventure.

so, Thunfest 2009. was an awesome time that i spent with people that i won't be seeing again until december and my sister, vanessa. (since HERE she's old enough to go out and what not.) at around 2:30 we were so down to head home. we didn't ACTUALLY have an extra key, but knew that my grandparents hid one somewhere in the garage.

so we get home around 3 in the morning, mind you we made a few pit stops along the way, alcohol runs through my system like WOAH! so i park the car in the garage, pretty much wanna fall alseep at the wheel because i'm so tired, but force myself out of the car to go looking for the key. we start digging around and lift every box and dig around in every little container to look for the key in the small, little glass jar.

by 3:30 we STILL hadn't found the key and became desperate enough to try every door and window of the house to see if anything was unlocked, but my grandparents are good at locking everything, and everyone, out. so obviously we didn't find a way in. we considered sleeping outside until lightning lit up the sky, so we quickly made our way back into the garage.

so, what were our options?
1. sleeping in the rain.
2. sleeping on the garage, in the rain.
3. sleeping in the car.

of course we choose option 3., but the car wasn't exactly an RV, and i'm not exactly the shortest person. so i squeezed myself into the back seat while vanessa took the front. i slept through until 7:30, but vanessa thought i was going to die half the time due to the heat and the smell of gas in the garage, so she was always up and about. opening windows, opening the garage door so fresh, rain filled air, could get in etc. needless to say, she didn't sleep too much that night.

so yeah, that was an adventure. i woke up cramped and cranky and ended up taking a 9:07 train to bern. where we walked around the city until around 13:00. not only that, but we were also invited at our uncles for dinner, where i almost fell asleep at the table until he brought out the wine.

drove home and still didn't fall asleep until 22:30.

it was an adventure. and i'm not sure i would want to repeat it. well maybe if we had a RV instead of a 1993 Volvo S40...

only 5 more days in switzerland. and then again in 140 days with linda and jay!!!


(thunfest: www.thunfest.ch)



much love.

some new faces here..

there have been some additions on the farm while i was here. today is my last day, and i've decided to share some of them..

16 of these guys..

and these two.

there's a calf too, but i never got a picture of her. ^

as my days on the farm draw to a close again, i'm trying to get some finishing details in my life in order, not only did i get an e-mail from school mentioning something about getting deregistered from my fall classes, but there are also other situations that are in desperate need of some kind of order. we'll see how it all plays out when i get back to the states.

much love.

summer has returned to the hills.

ahh.. finally the sun has come back, at least for the time being. only 3 more days on the farm and then its back to lyss for a week. we're flying back on the 14th and really, truly, i kind of miss the bustling city streets.

"New York is a different country. Maybe it ought to have a separate government. Everybody thinks differently, acts differently --they just don't know what the hell the rest of the United States is." -Henry Ford (i agree.)

three songs i've come to like..

1. the gossip ft beth ditto - heavy cross
2. shakira - she wolf
3. nelly furtado's "manos al aire"

listen to them and let me know what you think!

something to think about..

somebody once said that "to accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."



i believe there is truth in this, but when you make a plan, isn't there a possibility that it's going to change? and if it does change, did you believe in something that you didn't ever really plan to achieve?



that's just something to think about - i've been so busy with all this farm work that today, switzerland's independence day, is one of the first times that i could actually just sit down and ponder. well, it's off to the barn.