Life is treating me pretty well right now. Currently I’m spending my summer taking courses, trying to graduate a bit earlier. (Since I went to Norway for a year after high school, I am a bit behind my coetanei.) I received some of the biggest and most exciting news of my academic/professional career last week: starting August, I will be doing a year-long internship at the Università della Svizzera Italiana (also known as University of Lugano). It’s going to be the busiest year of my life, as I will be juggling this internship, another school job, as well as a full semester of courses. Guess this will be an opportunity to really learn how to manage time effectively.
This weekend I will be heading to Lauterbrunnen with some friends and we will spend Friday hiking the Bernese Oberland. I’ve been looking forward to this trip for well over a year now, as I will finally be able to say that I’ve been to Interlaken. (You know, one of those places where everyone has been to except you–like living in northern California and never having gone to Tahoe.) Hopefully the weather will be kind that day; I’ve been borderline heat-stroking it this past weekend here in Lugano so the signs are good!
My mom is coming to visit in a couple of weeks. The original plan was to take her to Bretagne–after listening to Nolwenn Leroy’s Bretonne, I’m really itching to see it for myself. However, she really wants to go see the Louvre, so I think we will be spending two days in Paris instead: one day for the museum, one day for the landmarks. In addition, I also really want to see this year’s “Opera on the Lake” at the Bregenz Festival in Austria. (If my memory serves, the Tosca scene during Quantum of Solace was filmed in the Bregenz.)
Well, that’s a lot of plans–but then again, that’s me. Alla prossima!
