Blogs from La Plaine , Geneva, South-West, Switzerland, Europe - page 5

Isabelle and Myles are so cute. Isabelle has been saying the following line about various kinds of foods - "I like grapes, only a little bit, not very much, only a little bit." She says this while tilting her head and raising her eyebrows. Ok, maybe only I think that it's cute. Myles on the other hand is our little kisser. He will often be seen randomly walking up to someone and then he will suddenly kiss them. This happened in Nice. We were walking down one of the narrow streets in Vieux Nice and Myles walked up to a lady that was sitting at a restaurant table outside and he kissed her on the arm. Also, today at church, Myles found a little boy about 3 and 4 and kissed him at least 5 times. ... read more

On our way out of Geneva, we had two separate visits to the WTO headquarters and the U.N. Both campuses are with 5 minutes of each other and the visits proved to be interesting. As an econ major, the WTO meeting proved to be especially interesting to me. Once getting through security, we met with a Lawyer for the WTO from Ghana in one of the negotiation rooms of which the headquarters is mostly comprised of. It is in these rooms that countries negotiate their different terms of trade and try to work out disputes. He spent a little over an hour with us discussing the purpose and goals of the WTO and the specifics of what went on the headquarters. We also spend a considerable amount of time learning about their strategies toward development and ... read more