Phone cards: I am so fed up with trying to use phone cards here in France. It is nearly impossible to get them to work. My last phone card I tore up and threw away in a fit of frustration. So tonight I made yet another attempt to call Alaska. Every! Single! Time! I try to enter in the "secret code/account number" The stupid automated woman tells me "Votre code secret est incorrect" which is a load of bullshit because not only have I entered it in exactly the way it is written, I have used the phone card before and it has worked! I did finally get it to work. But not because I changed the number I was entering. It was because I continually tried until it accepted the number I have. This card was lucky to have survived this phone call attempt. It almost joined the last one.
Tax Refund: Imagine my disbelief when I go to check my credit union account and find a huuuuuge sum of money has been deposited and is labeled "tax refund." I literally held my breath while Lauren texted my dad to verify that I wasn't imagining it and that it was really there for me to use and keep. That makes my life so much easier! I have never gotten a tax refund like that before and I am so overjoyed at the prospect of having money I think I might just let it go to my head for a little bit before I rejoin the real world!
Geneva: Tomorrow at the crack of dawn I will be on a bus headed for Switzerland. It is literally only 2 hours away by bus which is so surreal considering it takes 2 hours just to drive to Girdwood from Palmer to go snowboarding. In two hours I will be in a different country! We are going to get to take a tour of the United Nations building and see the Red Cross museum among many other things. I plan on buying Swiss Easter chocolate for my host family since Sunday is Easter. This weekend promises all sorts of happy happenings!
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