did i mention that i got my passport back?

so yes, i feel so much better now that i have the old passport in my possession!

tomorrow is my crazy appointment with some frau to see about getting this freaking flat!

it would be nice.....and i dream that one day some swiss person will find it in their heart of hearts to give me a chance on a home!

the day was good. i took the childrens to the basel natural history museum. wacky place!

it was very old.....obviously!

my camera cable is all the way in the kitchen and i am all the way upstairs so i will have to post the photos at a later time.

wolfram was pretty terrified of the giant dinosaurs!

gernot just ran around like a loon as did wolfie. i tried to show them cool geological things but they were so not interested.

it was 12 dollars!

so much for free museums!

i got to watch my program via vuze so that was nice....

my text messages are getting through again. it was a few days that people were texting me and they were not making it to my phone.

glad that's over!

did i mention how much it rains here?

i believe i have mentioned this probably everday!

no surprise there. i saw some cool boots but i will not spend any money on them.

i still need a swiss bank account because the charges for me to take out cash is over the top!

i got paid in all cash though so i have enough loot to get me through until i get an account....

i'll let you all know tomorrow how my house for rent interview went.
part of me wants to just sign a cotton pickin lease so i can just have a place to call home and i can spend time then seeking other housing if i don't like it.

only thing is, i would still need this ID in order to get the internet.

oh noes!

my back has been killing me. lots of hills and gernot isn't the lightest child. he's like aurelia (manda's charge).....wolfie isn't so light either!

i must be getting SO OLD and creaky!

i miss you america!

guten nacht!

today was a trying day to say the least....

oh the frustration is crazy.

first we go to register with the canton of basel. can't do that without swiss ID card.

call the BIS who issued my work visa....they say that they were supposed to start the process once i arrived in basel which was the 20th.

so i had to fill out many forms again tonight and take some passport like photos.

i also have to send my passport, like the real deal, to this place but not until thursday cause me and my new pal will be leaving switz i think to check out some german or french nature.



i will need the passport to get back into switz. this isn't true for the rest of the countries in europe.

i wanted to come home so badly today. i cried a lot....it's okay i cry a lot as it is. but this makes the germans feel bad cause they are an unemotional lot!

okay so if i find a flat i like i can apply with all this information i have, the contract, the work visa and various other fucking forms but i still cannot actually get a place without having a status. which by the way is an F status, which i find fucking hilarious.

hi, my name is michelle. i have the F stats. F uck status!

i feel better now and am glad i have a phone and got to call back home which was very nice and relaxing to me.

it's nice to have this communication device, no?

i am sure i will use my pre paid minutes faster than i want to.

texting is cheaper probably for us all.

the mountains are beautiful today because it wasn't as cloudy and the sun was out. i posted up a photo on facebook but will here too for those that don't have the facebook....

to top this all off, i tried to buy one god damn orange and nope! i was supposed to weigh said orange first...did i already write about this?

i cannot be sure anymore.

tomorrow i stay with just gernot while tamara takes wolfram to the play group he is in on wednesday mornings......they told me that i wasn't interacting with the kids but the kids are very very very mommy centered and no matter what if she is here then they are not going to want to play with me. to them i think i am just this visitor....little do they know that their mommy is going to work next monday!

ha ha kids.

cool thing about next week is that there is no play groups or appointments so that is nice.

i am not going to the bank because they will most likely tell me that i need my 'papers' in order to open the account.

phew. what a day of ups and downs for sure.

i was ready to call british air and get the fuck out of here but i calmed down a little and cried it all out and we had a nice talk and i let them know that even though we are friends they are now my employers and they need to act as such and tell me when they want me to do things and so on.

they kept asking me to come because their son has encephilitis (i know i spelled that wrong) and some spasticity in his legs and they trust me because my brother has cerebral palsy....part of the reason maybe that i want to do this is because i have that old catholic guilt that i couldn't do more for my brother when we were little....he got the shaft a lot in the foster homes and i tried SO HARD to help him and i told case workers and lawyers that they were treating him so badly but no one likes to believe small children.

what i think people don't get is that kids are very very perceptive and a hell of a lot smarter than adults give them credit for.

either way, ginny--there is still people chocolate and i found some today and should be in mail at some point next week on an adventure with the kids.

henry and cat--i found some wicked crazy candies that i will also send along next week.

i miss the hell out of the kids i had in my life in the dee cee and my adult friends too.

i knew it would be hard and i knew it would be harder still with the language issue....

either way, everyone's messages, emails and comments on the facebook are really making my days brighter....

i love you all so much.

guten nacht!