The daily schedule is more or less settled in now. Our biological clocks are adjusted to the time shift. Our day looks something like this: 17:00 wake up 17:30 move to Bern 18:00 breakfast 19:00 take over command post 19:15 briefing 19:30 bring out first team 22:00 lunch 22:30 bring out second team 01:30 bring …

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It is April, and its snowing! WTF?!?!

I just found out that i wasnt the only one that overslept yesterday. 3 other guys slept until about 1pm . Luckily the standby-driver brought them home

Sleeping is a good thing, especially when you’ve done your last tour and got about 3.5 hours until you go back to the encampment. Bad thing is when no-one wakes you up. But as i had the car-keys they wouldn’t have left without me . I was only a few minutes late, but i was …

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Working during the night has certain advantages. You get through the city with no trouble and you are left in peace. Downsides are that the radio program repeats every 2 to 3 hours and that you get bored between the tours. Still the worst thing is the jet lag. OK, I’ve got a fairly easy …

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It seems that blogging via my mobile phone worked quite good. Only downside is, that the number of characters is capped. I don’t know exactly, but I think it’s a problem of my mobile phone and not WordPress. So don’t wonder if my posts are kept short. At least the smileys work… We are now …

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Yesterday was a ‘busy’ day. My main job was delivering food and shuttling people around. OK, I had to get up 1 hour earlier than the others to get breakfast (which took approx. 1/2 hour per way), but it also got me around the training . This morning we packed our stuff and moved to …

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The first day is almost over. The last taxi-job is almost done. We’ve brought the food containers back to the kitchen and fixed the pickup for breakfast and Zwipf. 6.30 am. And its a 30min drive one way. I hope that our lieutenant honours it somehow that we get up earlier every day. Time will …

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This years WK started as i expected. We arrived at the train-station, and waited. No one to pick us up. About am hour later a bus turned up. After a 10 minute ride we arrived at our destination. We got our material (sleeping-bag, spare uniforms, etc) and ate something. Since then were waiting… Welcome to …

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I’m sitting in the train on my way to the other end of Switzerland to serve my country for another 3 weeks. I’ll try to give regular updates on what is happening here. I just hope the mBlogging plug-in works