Some want to have a nice dinner for their birthday; some want to go shopping, and this boy wanted to go swimming in a pool. Swimming pools and India don’t really belong together. But for little boy’s birthday wish, mothers have to make possible everything, even in India. Of course, our little green paradise […]
Being a mother in Switzerland means doing all, and all means all: working 100 percent, looking after my two boys, taking care of the household, and above all trying to have a relationship with a man. But let’s not talk about the fourth thing! This is another story. Let’s talk about the three other things […]
5.12 p.m. after school Big boy: “Why are you so late from school?” Little boy: “Am I late?” Big boy: “It’s 10 past 5 and your school finished at 4.20.” Little boy: “No, it was 4.30.” Big boy: “No. It’s always 4.20.” Little boy: “Okay… I had to walk back […]
The point of view changes when you have kids. I didn’t want to recognize for a long time because I didn’t want to feel different than people without kids. When I didn’t have kids yet, there were two points of reference: my parents and myself. Since I am a mother, there are three points […]
I don’t have a lot of memories of my childhood playing together with other children. Maybe, it is because my mother wanted us, my brother and me, to be around her when we came back from school. Maybe, she was feeling so lonely at home when we were at school and she was happy […]
It is a rainy day; school is off. The kids are playing, but not playing together; rehearsing a own play to invite their mothers to come and see. They close the shutters because there has to be special light. They organize popcorn and syrup. They write an invitation card for theirs mums; they even […]
They play around; they have big fun. The little one grew up in India, the older one in Switzerland. The one speaks Tibetan, the other one Swiss German. Both know a few words in English but not much. The little one is living in a boarding school in Dharamsala, the older goes to a […]
Three weeks in India, four weeks back in Switzerland: four weeks of school, homework, getting up at times when one likes to sleep. Tough times. But there are all the memories of our traveling in India. Memories of rich experiences, of living two days in an Indian train, meeting so many different people, playing […]
Maybe this Indian boy hasn’t seen any Europeans before; maybe he is shy by nature. His father in his traditional dress took him to town to buy a few things. Which world will he be living in in 20 years? Will it be the modern India? Will he be doing the bookkeeping or will […]
He’s got this bright smile on his face. It is promising. Two years passed that I took this picture. So many things have changed. Now, my ten-year-old is discussing with me why I dare punish him by shutting down his iPod for a day; he is arguing with me because I push him to go […]