From the little valley to arround the world

HERE IS THE ADRESS OF MY NEW BLOG !

2006-11-01T05:26:00.000-08:00

If you wanna information about my life in England or so, just check this link :
http://celiainengland.blogspot.com/
that is my new blog and I will add some pictures very soon.

Who am I ?

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I was born in a little valley in the french part of Switzerland in the "Canton de Neuchâtel" and I lived there with my familly until I was 19 years old.
This valley called "Val-de-Travers" is a very pretty and quiet place where it is very nice to live and I liked it a lot to have my childhood there, especially during winter time when the snow is covering everything and all kids are outside with their slides and skis. So, it is many great memories I keep from that time and I like to go back there to visit my familly, my friends and all the people I cherish and who helped me to build my little life.

I did my primary school in Môtiers, the cutest village of the valley and then I followed the secondary school and high school in scientific section in 'Le Collège du Val-de-Travers" and "Le Lycée Denis-de Rougemont" to finally have my "baccalauréat" (high school graduation) in June 2001. During all that time, I was fascinated by the ocean and my only wish was to work on it so I decided to leave Switzerland to go studying Oceanography at "Université Bordeaux 1" in France and right now(4,5 years later) I am finishing my Maîtrise there.

Do you want to know where I am right now ?

2006-09-24T12:10:00.000-07:00

Many people keep asking me all the time about where I am and what I am doing during the following months, so with the lines below, you can always know where I am and what I am doing.
So here is my program and some current news of my little life :

RIGHT NOW : I am in Norwich for one month already and everything goes pretty well. My courses are amazing and I like it so much, but it requires so much work and time so I really need to put myself together and to be well organised, but it will make it.
OTherwise I still miss Gert-Jan a lot and I am so happy that he comes to me soon.

I am preparing a new blog about my life here with some photo that my dear housemate will allowed me to borrow :Phihi.Cause I still don't have my own digital camera..

Otherwise I am already(still) preparing my international party for the new year... so don't forget it all..

I wish you all the best... and NEW BLOG COMING SOON

THEN :

- September 17th : Moving to Norwich (UK). And starting school there...

- September 18-25th : Orientation days, meeting and visit of Norwich.

-September 25th : Starting courses in UEA in Norwich.

Hollidays pictures 2.

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Some more holidays pictures from this summer

Our Hollidays

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This year, my summer was really busy as usually, but it was nice and I had the chance to first go back in my dear Alps (in Grindelwald) in Switzerland and then to Bordeaux for a wedding and then in Toulouse, to see my favorite cousins there and to Narbonne for 3 days with Gert-Jan.
Here are some pictures Gert-Jan and me took during our trip :

Oh my dear girlfriends, I miss you all:O !

2006-06-22T01:00:00.000-07:00

Here are some pictures of my dear girlfriends whose I had such great time those last years with.

Ma chère meilleure amie Maud, et ancienne voisine du 2ème étage et camarade de classe lors de nos premiers pas à l'université. que de bons souvenirs ensemble, tant de fous rire, de commèrage et de larmes aussi, mais tant de joies :) Gros bisous Ma petite camionette :P

Audrey, Maud et Moi, photo prise par Hanneke durant l'été 2004, de l'eau a coulé sous les ponts depuis cet été là!

Audrey et moi, lors de notre premier camp de terrain en Avril 2003, elle a bien changé notre petite Au-au :P

Mélody et moi / Maud et moi en décembre 2002, prêtes à aller conquérir les "dance floor"! Ma petite Mélo je te souhaite bon vent et j'espère vraiment te revoir bientôt, car je ne veux pas oublier ton charmant accent chantant du Lot-et-Garonne. :P

Et "my dear crazy dutch friend", cette chère Hanneke avec qui ont a passé tant de bons moments en Alaska et qui va être une de mes colocs en Angleterre. Il me tarde vraiment d'y être et de vivre encore pleins de moments de folies...

LES FILLES, VOUS ME MANQUEZ DEJA :( MILLES BISOUS A TOUTES

(et aussi à toutes et tous ceux que je n'ai pas encore cités... ca viendra...patience)

Some pictures of the last winter hollidays!

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Gert-Jan and his putting air in his bike wheels !:) in front of his parents house.

Sunsets in the Nederland
Gert-Jan in the TGV from the Nederland to Switzerland.
The water fall completely icy in Môtiers ( a village of my dear valley).
Gert-Jan and me for the New Year 2005-2006
Amanda Dancing with Eleonore

Liza and me walking in the snow up my valley

Gert-Jan and me in the snow.

Few pictures of last summer !

2006-06-20T00:49:00.000-07:00

Here are 2 pictures taken from my place in Switzerland by Hanneke last summer.

Here are 2 pictures I really like from last summer. One from Gert-Jan in Mont-St-Michel, where I was working as a lifeguard and on of Amanda and me during her birthday at home in Switzerland.

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

2006-04-30T05:02:00.000-07:00

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 !

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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 !

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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

2006-04-19T00:12:00.000-07:00

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 !

2006-04-05T03:09:00.000-07:00

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

2006-04-05T02:45:00.000-07:00

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.

Life in Belgium 1

2006-03-29T00:36:00.000-08:00

It makes already more than 2 weeks I am in Belgium and I can see that the time is really flying. I start to be well organized and to be more confortable with my internship subject wich one I really find interesting.
I feel also very confortable with people in the lab, my advisor is nice and a really interesting person and I have some time with all the "staff" everyday at lunch which is really a good and full of laugh moment everyday.
Here is my desk that I share with a PhD student very helpful who accept me to monopolize his desk for 6 weeks.

You can also see the view I have from the big window in front of my desk.

So everyhting is going pretty fine, even if I start to feel really tired with all the train trip I have to do everyday, but I still enjoy it a lot to wake up every morning to go to work so that is the most important.

Beginning of my internship in Brussel !

2006-03-15T06:10:00.000-08:00

I just started my internship yesterday at the Institute of polar glaciology of the Free University of Brussel and my first impression about here are really good.
My advisor is a very intersting and full of knowledge person and the atmosphere here is really nice.

I just got the final theme of my research and it will be :

"The preservation of burried glacier ice in the Dry Valley (East Antarctica)" and I like it a lot. It is a pretty new subject for me and I have to learn a lot about it so yet I am reading articles and thesis about it.

Otherweise, my belgien life is going ok, even if I have to wake up very early every day and do a lot of train, I feel pretty ok with it and I can go swimming almost everyday so that is the most important... of course!!!! :p