Politics: good news and an interesting result

Please meet our newest federal councillor, Doris Leuthard.
She was elected this week and will be taking over the federal department of economic affairs which includes the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs as well as the Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture.
She's from the CVP (Christian Democratic People's Party) which is from the centre and rather conservative, but I'm not even too worried about her political program, just having a 43-year old woman in the Swiss Federal Council is amazing! :-)

An interesting result has been happening at the presidential elections in Peru, where Alan Garcia has been elected. I've already talked about him when I was in Peru in Feb/March, but I didn't really think that he would win the elections, knowing the desastrous situation he left after his last presidency in the 80ies. I guess people can learn from their past mistakes, but I still have my doubts... had to laugh when I read his comment on BBC:

"My desire is not to repeat any of the errors I may have made," he said recently. "Do you think I want my tombstone to read: 'He was so stupid that he made the same mistakes twice'?

Apart from politics, I'm enjoying some time without exams pressure but not yet knowing the results yet either... so it might be I'll have to study again in October, but I don't care right now. Now is the time for lying lazily in the sun, drinking french red wine called "les trois pucelles" and reading stupid love novels on the train...

I'll have to enjoy it as long as it lasts, as on June 30th I'll start working here:

The line reads "education for sustainable development" and I'll be working on expanding their offer of training courses to neighbouring countries as well as some more concrete projects like developing "mobility concepts" - don't ask me more about it, I'll know it soon ;-)

Looking forward to a great summer...