Home and Alone

Geigers left for Easter vacation today to Bayern to visit Elke's mom till next Thursday. They were actually supposed to leave Sunday but Elke's neck pains and headaches were really bad, then they were said they were leaving on Monday, then Tuesday, and I half expected to see them when I got home today but they were gone.
Since Monday I'm helping a family that Elke knows from church. I think I mentioned it in my previous blog. Most of the day involves watching Sarah and playing with her. She is very hard for me to understand. But it's good. The family is really nice as well. I take the bus and train to and from their house. I love the public transportation here, it's so simple. I do like driving sometimes though. Finally Andre gave me some "driving lessons" this morning which had to be done before I can drive on my own. It seemed to be an unwritten rule. It was only to make sure I was okay driving here with the narrow roads, narrower than in Pennsylvania, and such. So that went fine. Now that's out of the way I can use the car this week, as well as for other things sometimes. Plus it's a 3 year old Mercedes :), automatic. I hadn't driven at all since the Micra in Germany and my left foot kept wanting to do something.
This weekend, I did go to Geneva. I enjoyed visiting with Beaches. It was really nice of Naomi to show me the city. I like Geneva, and the lake of course is gorgeous. But I agree with Andre who said there is, "unheimlich viel diplomats." I guess they gotta be somewhere though. I got to use my French just a bit, but I heard so much English around me. On Sunday, I went to church with the Beaches, which is even an English church! Sunday I went with them and another couple that was also visiting, to a woman's, also an expat, house in France for lunch. She had the coolest looking house, very artsy. I mostly just listened to their long conversation. And caught a glimpse into the world of NGO diplomacy or whatever that world is that they're living in. Something I don't know much about, and why would I? Nevertheless it was pretty interesting to listen to.
Monday night I went with Debbie and Rebecca to Basel for a some St. Patrick's festivities. Nothing like Dublin, or New York, actually there was nothing outside of the pub. The holiday is a little silly-get wasted and use Ireland as an excuse. But I felt like participating this year cuz sometime you just have to be silly and participate in silly holidays, and FYI-I only had 1 pint of guiness. Anyways it was pretty fun. Really no one even know the holiday here. I showed Elke my the hat and necklace I scored that night, when I got home. She never heard of such a thing as St. Patricks. Ironically enough though, there was leftover potatoes and Baileys on the counter...very Irish.
I'm going to go watch tv or something and continue to work at getting the Pippi Lonstocking song out of my head, which has been torchering me since yesterday when I heard it. O yeah, and I have to pack for Interlaken that I'm leaving for tomorrow with Rebecca. I'll be there till Saturday.