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• Ireland... file names should give you brief info... more info later

• Basel Fasnacht was crazy. We met my friend Christoph from work and his son. He is originally from Basel. The fest started at 4am Monday morning and everyone is out for it. I went back on Tuesday and met my friend Harris and we missed the train and had to stay all night again. Lots of confetti!

• Georgette and I went to Paris on Friday of her visit. She went to Bern and found a potential PhD position. Then we went to Paris and hung out with my friend Andrzej that used to live in the same WG as me. It was great seeing Paris and going to funny jazz concerts and playing games. Then we left to arrive early in the morning to go to Basel... more info later

• Georgette and I went to Fastnacht in Luzern AWESOME COSTUMES ... more info later

• Here are pictures from when Georgette was here and Eli visited... more info later

• I went on a truly amazing adventure into Graubunden in the SE Alps of Switzerland with my friend Mauro. We stayed where he grew up in Churwalden near the resort Lenzerheide. We did a bunch of backcountry skiing and boarding, and I got my first really good fresh powder and also saw my first avalanche (from a safe distance)

• Here all all the pictures from my trip back to Iowa, I tried to keep it short, but there were so many adventures and fun. It seems like I had a hundred different Christmas parties, but it all started with some fun Iowa skiing on the Mississippi and ended with an amazing New Year's even Public Property show

• Before I came home for Christmas there was some partying and skiing to do in Switzerland

• After my Georgette left my parents did a big tour of Switzerland and I joined them in a couple places and took some pics

• Georgette and I met my parents to prepare a big Thanksgiving dinner for all the great friends I've made here, then we did a little more touring around Switzerland with my parents and Georgette

• Georgette came to visit in November and we did some hiking in Switzerland with friends here and met up with Dave Bess, Danny Bess, and Sarah Bess and their significant others in Italy (Milan and Siena), then came back to Zurich to meet my parents

• 10-16-05: The first weekend was so good we had to go back the following Sunday. This time our new Belgian friend, Rien, and Laura's friend Anelina came along. We went back to St Antionen and this time hiked up super high all the way to the ridge and over into Austria. So now I've been to Austria for the first time... hurray!

• 10-9-05: Laura met us Sunday for a hike to the top of the mountain up from Conradin's place. It was not too tall, but had some snow and an amazing panorama of all the Graubunden mountains... SPECTACULAR

• 10-8-05: Conradin and I drove back in the valley toward Austria and had lunch at the hotel where his parents met then drove up a bit higher and hiked to where I could play in the snow

• 10-8-05: This is a hike we did up the hill from Conradin's house past his neighbors where his dog's brother lives. Lots of beatiful houses and lots of sheep, goats, and cattle with beautiful bells "ding ding" just like you would imagine Switzerland.

• 10-7-05: This is from my first trip to Conradin's family's amazing place in the Graubunden section of Switzerland. It is in the East near Kloisters and Davos in a small town called Luzein. It is an amazing place

• A crazy event called Freestyle.ch that I went to Saturday the 24th of September. Saw some vert ramp skateboarding and BMXing along with X-Ski and Snowboarding and some insane motocross. The ski snowboard jump was giant, like 6 stories. A snowboarder tried a double back flip and took a nose dive!

• Georgette comes to Switzerland to visit Forrest! For only 5 days, but it was absolutely amazing. Biking through the mountains and going to an amazing spa. Lots of great food, cooking and restaurants. We went to the restaurant that is completely dark!

• A great hike at Wagitaler lake that is at about 6000 ft, even though we lost our way a lot we eventually came to a great spot!

• We made some great Lasagna with my flatmates some random Sunday

• The place where I work, ETH-RAT, is a two rather small buildings with 20-40 people working there was a office vacation/trip to Luzern on Thursday 9-1-2005. It was amazing. We went by steam paddle boat from Luzern to a mountain that we tok a train up, then walked part way down and had a barbeque, then we took a gondola down the mountain and boated over to the ETH-EAWAG water research center

• The Theatre Spektakel was this great event that was on the lake next to my house. It is super cool event with four huge theatres setup with shows going on for 3 weeks. There are tons of places to eat ethnic food as well as street performers from all over the world. I even met a guy I had seen and talked to in New York this summer. There were also super chill places to hang out like this room with bean bags everywhere and little tables. Lots of stuff on the water including a couple cool concerst.

• I quickly made good friends with my next door neighbor in my WG (living group) from Poland, Andrzej, but unfortunately he is already leaving. These are pictures from his farewell pizza party on Thursday the 25th of August. We made dough from scratch and had fun and then there was some crazy polish wrestling at the end

• My friend Caro took me climbing at the largest climging gym in Europe... It was huge!! Then while biking home we heard some reggae accross the river on this little island park, so being that I cannot resist reggae we went and braved the rain and danced in the mud to some reggae

• The famous Street Parade in Zurich. 1 million people descend on the city for a parade starting at 3pm with 32 'Love Mobiles' playing house/techno. Then there are concerts all over the downtown including a huge one at the main train station that last until morning... at least until 6am, that's when we left. I went with Andrzej and Conradin and we met up with our german roomate Nicholas and some of his friends at the end of the night

• Friday night visit to the Rote Fabrik (Red Fabric) where there was a big pre-party for the Street Parade the next day. There was a huge bike wheel installation and several different dance areas as well as couches and crazy lighting all over outside. I went with Andrzej, the blonde, and Conradin, the guy on the roof :-)

• Lunch with co-workers from ETH-RAT, Hanging out at squatted bar student retro-zone 'Red Fabric' and the first swim in the lake afterword

• Mountain Biking up (and down) Uetligberg 1600 ft above Zurich

• Airport leaving, Dorm, Office, and Streets in Zurich

  
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• Room and around town

• The Roots Show

• Hangin with Jesse Elliott, Marc Krickbaum, Dave Fishel etc on the 4th