HOORAY FOR NOT BEING CANCELED!
Indeed, the blog has not been canceled, it was just on hiatus. Between being quite busy trying to get the paperwork in order to move in to our new apartment (hooray new apartment!), and then it taking 7 weeks to get Internet connected to our new apartment, and my starting French class 5 days a week, the blogging didn't make it up to the top of the priority list. However, with fast Internet access at home, and more snow than you can shake a stick at outside, it seemed like a good time to resume sharing with our audience that may actually exceed the single-digits.
When we were preparing to move to Geneva, we tried to get an idea of how much snow we would encounter here. Anecdotal reports from locals, combined with a brief perusal of some easily available temperature data suggested that it would be more wintry than the Bay Area, and less wintry than Chicago, so perhaps Seattle-ish (it's just simpler for me to absorb if I try to fit it into the category of "winters I have experienced"). In the last month or so, as the weather has cooled down to the single digits Celsius (upper-30s to low-40s Farenheit), we have chatted with various long-term residents, who have indicated that it gets cold and gray, but that in the city proper, you only see a couple of small snow storms, somewhere around January or February. This sounded okay to us, and we prepared ourselves for such.
Saturday we woke up and found the snow falling, with perhaps an inch already on the ground (by the end of the day, there would be more like 5 or 6 inches on the ground). This was, of course, the same day that we had reserved a car at Ikea to buy a bunch of furniture. Apparently Murphy's Law doesn't just apply in the United States.
However, we really needed a trip to Ikea. We had managed to mostly furnish our apartment with items brought from our SF home, but we were missing a few things. This being a European apartment, it was somewhat lacking in closet space (although better than some apartments we saw!), so an armoire was a necessity, and because we want to be able to seat more than one guest at a time, some extra chairs were also on the list. Happily, we managed to drive safely through the snow (although I drove pretty slowly, and hit a couple of slippery spots), got all of our stuff into the apartment, and got the truck back to Ikea on time. And if you were wondering, yes, the Ikea in suburban Geneva is exactly like the Ikea in Emeryville. There are even a bunch of customers with American-accented English!
So now that we have Internet, we are unpacked, and we even have furniture (well, the armoire is still in process. . .), it almost feels like we are really LIVING here. Just in time to head back to the US in two weeks!
When we were preparing to move to Geneva, we tried to get an idea of how much snow we would encounter here. Anecdotal reports from locals, combined with a brief perusal of some easily available temperature data suggested that it would be more wintry than the Bay Area, and less wintry than Chicago, so perhaps Seattle-ish (it's just simpler for me to absorb if I try to fit it into the category of "winters I have experienced"). In the last month or so, as the weather has cooled down to the single digits Celsius (upper-30s to low-40s Farenheit), we have chatted with various long-term residents, who have indicated that it gets cold and gray, but that in the city proper, you only see a couple of small snow storms, somewhere around January or February. This sounded okay to us, and we prepared ourselves for such.
Saturday we woke up and found the snow falling, with perhaps an inch already on the ground (by the end of the day, there would be more like 5 or 6 inches on the ground). This was, of course, the same day that we had reserved a car at Ikea to buy a bunch of furniture. Apparently Murphy's Law doesn't just apply in the United States.
However, we really needed a trip to Ikea. We had managed to mostly furnish our apartment with items brought from our SF home, but we were missing a few things. This being a European apartment, it was somewhat lacking in closet space (although better than some apartments we saw!), so an armoire was a necessity, and because we want to be able to seat more than one guest at a time, some extra chairs were also on the list. Happily, we managed to drive safely through the snow (although I drove pretty slowly, and hit a couple of slippery spots), got all of our stuff into the apartment, and got the truck back to Ikea on time. And if you were wondering, yes, the Ikea in suburban Geneva is exactly like the Ikea in Emeryville. There are even a bunch of customers with American-accented English!
So now that we have Internet, we are unpacked, and we even have furniture (well, the armoire is still in process. . .), it almost feels like we are really LIVING here. Just in time to head back to the US in two weeks!
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