Frist part of the pictures of my field trip in the "Pays Basques", South West of France

Here is the first part of the pictures of the field trip I did in the Pays Basque. We went there to study the stratigraphy and the geological history of the region when it was under the ocean.

It was very interesting but very tiring and sometimes dangerous.

Pointe Sainte-Anne

Me, all ready for a big day on the field... and to fight against, the wave, the rain and the wind...:p
Difficult to be go up from the beach after a morning of hard work...:p
Cliffs in Spain
Aurélie L., Pauline and Blandine after the lunch break under the rain.
Us going down to the limit of the cliff. Look tha my pants (light blue pants) was still clean at that time..:p
MarieB, Me, Landry, Aurélie G., Candice and Thomas back from the sea..:p
The survivor back from the cliffs...:p
Here are (from left to right): Emilie, Aurélie L., Blandine, Me, Candice(in front of me) and Aurélie G.

Blandine and MarieB on the cliffs...
The teachers made us go on the last little part of this cliffs to see some nice sedimentologycal figures... when suddenly a big wawes came above us... very nice moment... Thank you, I was completely wet, cold and so afraid afterward...

Candice and me after some big fall in the muddy and dangerous little way along the cliffs... fortunately nobody fall into the stormy ocean.... Vive les risques de la Géologie !!!

Easter week-end : A saturday in Scheveningen with Gert-Jan and Hanneke !

The Beach of Scheveningen west of Den Haag (La Haye) in the Nederland
Hanneke, my dear crazy dutch friend whith who we had such a great time in Alaska 2 years ago...Great photographer, she made most of the pitures of this page haha.... copyright@Hanneke :P:P:P



Gert-Jan and me trying to carry him on... and yes I could but not so long...:P:P:P I need to train my lifguard technics again I think hahaha... What a nice time together in Scheveningen !

For the Easter week-end, Hanneke was back in her dear country so we went to meet her in Scheveningen with Gert-Jan, cause we all appreciate this place and also cause it was half way between Gert-Jan's parents and Hanneke's parents.

We have such a pleasant time and the weather, even a bit greyish was nice. I liked it a lot to have that moment with Gert-Jan (of course) and Hanneke, cause it is always a lot of fun when we are together,... I can not wait to be in UK in september in our great house :P:P:P

Souvenirs of last year !

One very nice night on Biscarosse Beach with a part of my lifeguard team : Jérem, Fabien et Simon. This week-end was the end of our lifeguard courses year and we had had a lot of time together hard working so it was nice to be together relaxing and having fun on the beach, our favorite place...
Waking up after a night on Biscarosse Beach : Pauline and me. What a great souvenir to have been there together and it was so nice to go to the beach with Pauline what ever the weather was we were always motivating to go there and have fun even under the rain and the cold wind.
Sunshine through the dunes in Biscarosse
A sunshine on Biscarosse Beach on the French coast : (june 2005). After having had there so so much time : studying for school (in field trip) and jumping, running, swimming and doing lifeguard there, I will miss a lot this gorges place after having left Bordeaux :S
My Birthday (May 2005) : Elodie my dear cousine and me. What a good time with her and even if we dont see each other that often it is always a so nice to see her.
First geol night (June2005) : Big concert by the Plagioclase Electric :P with Romain (and his very original way to sing I will say..) and Johnatan who play kazou so well

First geol night(June 2005) : me singing "yellow submarine"with the gourp Plagioclase Electric ...

In the Alps (under a water fall) after having had a adventurous day in the wild... What a great memory... I was feeling so free this day but also very worried to find our way..:P:P:P But we knew on wich mountains we were so that was ok....
One crazy night in Bordeaux downtown with the class and it is what happen : Audrey and me in a party in "Les Tontons Flingueurs"

Thanks to Marc and Pauline to have organize such nice parties...

Lunch at bordeaux downtown under the sun with Mélo, Paupau and me ( june 2005)
Field trip in the Alps (May 2005): The strongest team : Paupau, Pripri, Emilie, Melo and me
Field trip in teh Alps : My dear friend Paupau and me swimming in the fresh river after a big day of hiking :P

Always a lot of adventure with Pauline but such a fun and crazy time...:)


Field trip in teh Alps : the strong team in the wild :P
Field trip in the alps (Dignes-les-bains) with Pauline, Priscille, Babou et Emilie
Pics in the field trip in les Pyrénées, view on La Vallée d'Aspe.

Pictures of our field trip in the Pyrénées lat year : Pauline and me
We are definitely the worse drawer in the world... Our panoramas was horrible and absolutely not representative of the gorges scenery in front of us :P:P:

End of my internship in Brussel

Last friday was my "last" day of internship and it felt really weird to already leave this great team(pics above : regular lunch with my advisor and the phD students and the postdocs). Those past 6 weeks will have been so fast and in the same I did a lot of thinks and I learn a lot about glaciology and the polar sciences. I really liked this lab a lot cause people were friendly and very helpful and it was so nice to live in that great atmosphere for my internship.

Last friday, I also said bye to my dear "host familly" in Liège and it made me pretty sad to leave "la maison du bonheur", because I feel very lucky to have lived with Olivier, Sébastien and Jaqueline and I had such nice laugh and good time with all of them. It is great to live with such nice and openminded people and I will miss them a lot and be very happy to go in Liège again soon I hope.

So now, I am in Wageningen to work my exams and to write my internship report and I feel pretty stress, cause I have a meeting in Brussel on friday and I would like to have taken the more advance I can on my report. BUt I feel pretty good not to be obliged to take the train everyday anymore and to have some quiet time with Gert-Jan too.

Soon the pics of Easter week end....

Photo of my familly with our belgium friends and Helios !

Here is a nice photo od my familly and friend from Belgium which I just received from Marcella and which I like a lot. It was taken some time ago in "le Chapeau de Napoléon" which is one of the hill of my Valley in Switzerland.

Life in Belgium 2

This week is an holliday week in Belgium, so everything is really quiet. In the lab, everything is on hollidays or at the Environmental Sciences conferences in Vienna, so there is no noise and it is weird not to here the professors's laugh in the corridor.
I did some lab work and it is pretty interesting, I learnt a lot of new things, so I really see now that this internship made me discover many glaciological tools and practical work and that was my former goal therefore I am glad.
Last friday, I also discover Bruxelles a bit more in visiting with MarieB and this city is very nice and full of interest. Nevertheless, I can say now that I really prefer the dutch cities than the Belgium one, because for some reason I feel safer in the Netherland.
This week end my familly come in Belgium so I can not wait to them again, especially cause it made 4 months I had'nt seen them and my sister also.

So here are some pictures I just made, there is a picture of me going in the cold room, a picture of the nitrogen cold bath I do for my sampling (and i like that a lot because it is like making ice) and the colorful pictures of thin slides of ice under polarized light where we can see very good the ice cristals.