Thursday, November 27, 2008

Saturday, November 22, 2008

feeling good
























I'm feeling better these day. Yesterday I spent the day in Geneva researching at the United Nations library. It is a very inspiring atmosphere, and I feel so cool just wondering the grounds. All I have to do is flash them my pass and I'm in, how great is that? In the afternoon I had went to the MSF headquarters and had an amazing interview with Jean-Marc Biquet, the head researcher for MSF's thinktank UREPH. We talked for an hour and a half, on a range of issues. He had a great perspective on the life as a humanitarian. We focused on the ethics that surrounds humanitarian work and the difficulty of remaining independent in the 21st century, as that is what my research is focusing on. I walked out feeling motivated and strong. Then I went home and made rice pudding for everyone, it turned out so lovely. Now I'm leaving for a chalet in the Valais part of Switzerland for the weekend. It's snowing outside, so being in the mountains should be interesting...

en route




last bits of stockholm...




















Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Fika
























































































































































Fika in Swedish means "to have coffee" and the Swedes are experts at it. Every cafe was more magical than the last one. Full of tasty sweets, delicious lattes, candles at every table and cute guys working at the counter