I am going to Melide

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I am going to Melide in Tessin on Sunday. (See the map of Switzerland on this site.) It is a four hour train ride from Basel where I live. Basel is located in the northwest part of Switzerland and is bordered by France and Germany. German is the official language in Basel. Melide, on the other hand,  is located in the southern part of Switzerland. My husband and I are going to see the Swissminiature . Swissminiatur shows you the most picturesque features of Switzerland - towns, villages, monuments, transportation, all at a scale of 1:25. On the way we will see many postcard picture-perfect views of Switzerland's mountainous terrain and many of its snow capped mountains. Tessin is the Italian part of Switzerland, so we are looking forward to a good pizza dinner.  The pizza is fantastic there. 

This weekend represents treasured days as I have just completed my manuscript and have just resent my poetry collection, If Only The Dust Would Settle: Selected poems, to the publisher after proofreading it.   The most dificult was editing the German translations. The poems are written in English and German.  German grammar is most difficult :(. I had several Swiss friends oversee that part of it.  When my book is out, I am looking forward to doing some public readings to promote my book.  Susy Greuter, my Swiss anthrolopologist friend, will read the German as she always does.  It will be very exciting.  The poetry collection is about my journey from the Caribbean to the USA (1968-69,1972-74), then Liberia (West Africa 1976-1990) from which we fled because of the civil war that started in 1989, to London, England (1990-1991) where we were temporary "refugees" to  Basel,Switzerland where we have lived since 1991. We includes my husband and three children.

My oldest daughter is now married and lives in Tallahasse, Florida and is about to start her MA in Public Administration at Florida State University.  Before that, she taught German and English in Miami, Florida.  My second daughter is now a doctoral student at Oxford Univerisity in England and my son, the youngest, is a studying economics at the University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

I am now going to read a novel written by a friend.  Reading novels is something that I don't have much time to do. I read novels during the summer break. I teach and most often use short stories in my lessons because of time limitations.  It is a long weekend and I can put my feet up and relax.