<span>He was working as an engineer in Switzerland at the time.
"Was working" is past progressive. </span>
The "rattling off my plans" one
I would say that these lines suggest a sense of space with resonating power. You can see that they speak of freedom and liberty, and the vastness of space in the forest and the desert.
Here's the thing volleyball is my life I play it everyday after schol with some friends and other people you can't just ask people to help you make a poem for it, you should just feel it and come up with on your own. If you love this sport as much as I do it will take less than 5 minutes.