a penny in the rough: 2011

July 21, 2011

normandie

While I am at it, here are some photos from my trip to Normandie to see family. My sister happened to be there at the same time with her boyfriend. It was a blast!

plage

See-weed?

Coucouf looking way too cool.

I liked how this photo turned out.

A large boat coming into port.

At the beach

Obu!

My new short hair....still so short!

a few photos

Hi Everyone,

I know, no update for awhile. You guessed it, I have been rather busy, when not working, I have been traveling!

So that does mean I have lots of photos to share with you.

A quick update: My internship at the WHO is almost over. I only have a week and two days to wrap things up (and not all things will be well wrapped and might linger a bit into med school...alas!) But I have been doing very exciting work! I am not sure if I have posted anything on it, so I might need to spend a bit more time explaining what I have been doing here!

But first, some pictures

WHO headquarters (OMG its OMS!)

Carouges..part of my very very long commute

Carouges...get to ride by this on the tram everyday

These are photos from our trip to Lausanne! of course i took pictures of the cheese. I am not enjoying cheese again in my diet and hurrah its delicious!

we also went to a marche and enjoyed perfectly ripe cherries

The view from the giant hill in Lausanne...a beautiful but expensive place

Where's david? David does not even know that he blends in this well in switzerland!

A large blue ball at a sculpture park

The famous Jette d'eau, we made it back to geneva and walked around (this was back in the day when it did not rain for three weeks straight)

Feeding the birdies.

June 16, 2011

can you spot me?

Interns at the WHO with the Director General

May 31, 2011

last hour in Uganda

After the long 6hr drive to Entebbe from mbarara, I stopped for lunch at the Imperial Hotel. There I had lunch and gazed longingly at the beach on Lake Victoria before heading to the airport. It took me 38 hours to get from mbarara to my cousins house near paris. I am so glad that is over with.

May 27, 2011

final days in mbarara

So I am spending my last day in mbarara. I went and had a delicious lunch of matoke, posho and gnut sauce with peas. Yum! I like the food here! Gnut sauce pretty much tastes like a peanutbutter sauce, it is so delicious. I ate lunch at a restaurant called Organic. While I was eating there, the owner started spraying bug spray on the placemats on the table, effectively counteracting the organic produce he was serving. Mbarara is a place of milk and butter. It has a large cattle culture and it is easy to find yogurt here (so happy!). They also have lots of mushrooms. So I have often had mushrooms sautéed in butter which is delicious!

So the rest of the pictures in this post are of my walks around mbarara. The motorcycles are everywhere and are taxis that are called boda bodas. You just yell boda boda and you can get a ride anywhere. I don’t use these because its just as easy to walk everywhere. Apparently all drivers are addressed as boda.

Another interesting cultural tidbit I learned here was that in the culture in mbarara it is taboo for women to whistle or to ride bikes. If you do this, they will yell at you “are you growing a penis!”. Very interesting.

On my walks around my neighborhood all of the streets are unpaved. There are some day cares with adorable children, as well as houses, some really nice expat quarters, some that apparently belong to Musevini and some a