First, a big congratulations to Janne and Candice that jsut got engaged. I am very hapy for you and wish you all the best!! You will face a tough time with all the moving and probably some minor economy challanges but I am sure that everything will work out great and as long as you think of the great fact that you are engaged after all this time and miles between you, you will have a lot of nice things to look forward to in the future...........remember..."The Best Day Ever".......
Second, I have finally found a studio that I can live with and are also approved to rent it. Although it is not perfect it is clean and neat and the location great for me and also for any future visitors. I will move in on Sunday and hopefully I will manage to make a home from the place. Again I hope that the fact that I live in a studio will not scare anyone of you, my dear friends, to visit me. It may not be big but I wll promise you that there is space for you to have a good stay here in Boston.
Third, my sister Hanna have just delivered a big, dark and curly haired baby girl!! I do not have any picture or information about her yet so I am waiting for that, because as far as I know, I will be her godfather (or Buddhapappa..hehe, new concept)..if not Hanna & Håkan have changed their minds!! I am very honered and can´t wait to se the little girl. So a biiiiiiiiiiig congratulation to my sister and brother in law and a biiiiig hug to their baby girl!!!
As for me here in Boston well, still trying to settle in, take time and I am a bit frustrated that I haven´t managed more, at work and also exploring Boston more...but I hope it will get better when I have settled in. However I do enjoy it here. end of last week and this week I have learned new things so is is moving forward although slow. I hope that I will get into is better soon. I do feel a bit crippled not having a car for the furniture hunting and buying things for the home but well..that is life, just have to learn how to deal with it.
I hope that you are all fine and doing well in whatever you are doing!! Don´t forget to write me and let me know what´s going on in you life.....you all know that I care.....
Lots of Love
Anh-Tri
onsdag 28 februari 2007
onsdag 21 februari 2007
First real day at work....
Hello dear friends,
Wassup? See how americanized I have gotten!! Thanks for all the comment on the blog....it is nice to know that you have not forgotten me, wherever you are in the world.
As for me and some news about my life here then, I have finally decided for an apartment, it is only a studio but it is quite neat and spacious, at least measured in Boston standard. However I do not know if I am aloud to move in there yet, I have to fill in an application to the landlord to get the permission to rent the apartment and yeah, I need as much paper work as applying for the visa to get here so cross your finger for me. I am a bit fed up by looking at apartments now so this is the best one I have seen by far, eventough it is not ideal. So when I finally get a studio to live in you are all most welcome to visit me, my house is you house!! I hope that the fact that I only will live in a studio won´t scare you to visit me....I promise that I will do my best for your comfort anyway!!! Unfortunately I can not say that I will get the studio yet so I don cannot give you any address. I will not be able to give you any phone number to work either dince they are setting up a new line for my own phone and that will take a week or something like that, but I will fore sure let everyone know as soon as I will get address and phone ok!!
As for work then...today had my first real whole working day. I learned some new thing like how to chech the pluggs on female mice....for those that do not know what that means...well dont bother....I also learned how to embed tissues for sectioning ans also did some sectioning in a cryo-machine...what kind of tissue did I worked with? Well I don´t think that I will mention here for those sensitive peoples that might read my blog.
I also did the first exercise after my illness today, we played basketball after work with som collegues at the BBRI and gosh I think that two weeks in bed quite killed my muscles and physic in general. It was lots of fun although I sucked compared to the old day ad I am totally exhausted at the moment....I think that I wil sleep well today. I have to appologize to the "training buddies" at home because I haven´t been to the gym for more than 4 weeks now and unfortunately It wil probably take some more weeks before I get settled down enough to find me a decent gym to exercise in. The membership and monthly fee is also really expensive for the gyms here. I promise tha tonce I started I will go back to old Anh-Tri again ok!!
Ok time to chill out with some tv before going to bed!!
Miss you all and tons of big hugs to all of you..especially for the ladies ;) ...sorry guys...always ladies first!!!
//AT
Wassup? See how americanized I have gotten!! Thanks for all the comment on the blog....it is nice to know that you have not forgotten me, wherever you are in the world.
As for me and some news about my life here then, I have finally decided for an apartment, it is only a studio but it is quite neat and spacious, at least measured in Boston standard. However I do not know if I am aloud to move in there yet, I have to fill in an application to the landlord to get the permission to rent the apartment and yeah, I need as much paper work as applying for the visa to get here so cross your finger for me. I am a bit fed up by looking at apartments now so this is the best one I have seen by far, eventough it is not ideal. So when I finally get a studio to live in you are all most welcome to visit me, my house is you house!! I hope that the fact that I only will live in a studio won´t scare you to visit me....I promise that I will do my best for your comfort anyway!!! Unfortunately I can not say that I will get the studio yet so I don cannot give you any address. I will not be able to give you any phone number to work either dince they are setting up a new line for my own phone and that will take a week or something like that, but I will fore sure let everyone know as soon as I will get address and phone ok!!
As for work then...today had my first real whole working day. I learned some new thing like how to chech the pluggs on female mice....for those that do not know what that means...well dont bother....I also learned how to embed tissues for sectioning ans also did some sectioning in a cryo-machine...what kind of tissue did I worked with? Well I don´t think that I will mention here for those sensitive peoples that might read my blog.
I also did the first exercise after my illness today, we played basketball after work with som collegues at the BBRI and gosh I think that two weeks in bed quite killed my muscles and physic in general. It was lots of fun although I sucked compared to the old day ad I am totally exhausted at the moment....I think that I wil sleep well today. I have to appologize to the "training buddies" at home because I haven´t been to the gym for more than 4 weeks now and unfortunately It wil probably take some more weeks before I get settled down enough to find me a decent gym to exercise in. The membership and monthly fee is also really expensive for the gyms here. I promise tha tonce I started I will go back to old Anh-Tri again ok!!
Ok time to chill out with some tv before going to bed!!
Miss you all and tons of big hugs to all of you..especially for the ladies ;) ...sorry guys...always ladies first!!!
//AT
söndag 18 februari 2007
...Happy New Year!!!!.....
Hi,
Most of would probably wonder what I am up to now, but well It is actually the chinese new year celebration now so I have to wish you all a happy new year.
It is also a holiday here called the presidents day and I have a day off on Monday the 19th. So for this long weekend I went and visit my sister in Connecticut, where I am now. I will go back to Boston tomorrow evening and continue my search for an apartment. Anyway, I am having a nice weekend with lots of food and it is always nice to see my big sis and her family again.
Now to new experiences here in US.....as many of you know I am a picky coffee drinker so I have spend some time at Starbucks, which I find have the best coffee so far, at least among the chains. Anyway every time I order and are waiting for me normal latte, I always here these funny coffees that people order. How about a extra hot, tall non fat, decaf latte with some soy milk? Or an medium hot decaf, non sweetened, non fat extra creamy green chai latte........hmmmmm what happened with the normal coffee or what I ordered normal latte? I do not think that I have bumpted into anyone else except me that just have a normal coffee without any extras.
Ok, thats it for now and I wish you all a prosperous and successful year of the pig with good health and lots of joy!!
Many hugs
Your Dr. Do
Most of would probably wonder what I am up to now, but well It is actually the chinese new year celebration now so I have to wish you all a happy new year.
It is also a holiday here called the presidents day and I have a day off on Monday the 19th. So for this long weekend I went and visit my sister in Connecticut, where I am now. I will go back to Boston tomorrow evening and continue my search for an apartment. Anyway, I am having a nice weekend with lots of food and it is always nice to see my big sis and her family again.
Now to new experiences here in US.....as many of you know I am a picky coffee drinker so I have spend some time at Starbucks, which I find have the best coffee so far, at least among the chains. Anyway every time I order and are waiting for me normal latte, I always here these funny coffees that people order. How about a extra hot, tall non fat, decaf latte with some soy milk? Or an medium hot decaf, non sweetened, non fat extra creamy green chai latte........hmmmmm what happened with the normal coffee or what I ordered normal latte? I do not think that I have bumpted into anyone else except me that just have a normal coffee without any extras.
Ok, thats it for now and I wish you all a prosperous and successful year of the pig with good health and lots of joy!!
Many hugs
Your Dr. Do
tisdag 13 februari 2007
Happy Valentines Day!!!!!!
Dear friends,
I just want to start by wishing you all a happy Valentines Day and hope that you will have a nice time with people you love...partners, friends or maybe your family.....remember never take love for granted ok!!
Then some news.....I have started to look at some apartments, mainly studio at the price range 1000-1200 USD cause that is all I can afford if I want to live convenient and in Cambridge. Anyway the two that I looked at on monday was well..CRAP!!! I mean I don´t think that we would have been aloud to let out apartments like that in Sweden....they were worse then flogsta ot any dorm and for that price.....they weren´t to big either, around 25-35 square meters. Well this is what I can get for the money, can you imaging how dissapointed I got? Anyway I was a bit happier today when I at least saw a decent clean studio, the only bad thing about this one is that it only got one window that doesn´t get to much light. I will see more apartments tomorrow and if neither of those looks better....I will probably decide for the one I looked at today. The really goodd thing about this one is that is has everything in the surrounding, restaurants, shops etc, but unfortunately no parking....but well I don´t have a car yet so at the moment that is fine. But we will see.....
There is also a storm coming in over Boston during the night and there are warnings about a couple of inch of snow...doesn´t sound to much to me but that is what everyone have been talking about the past couple of days.
Alright that is all for now and I hope to hear about you at home soon.....
Many hugs and...what the hell it is Valentines day....Lots of kisses!!
//Dr. Do
I just want to start by wishing you all a happy Valentines Day and hope that you will have a nice time with people you love...partners, friends or maybe your family.....remember never take love for granted ok!!
Then some news.....I have started to look at some apartments, mainly studio at the price range 1000-1200 USD cause that is all I can afford if I want to live convenient and in Cambridge. Anyway the two that I looked at on monday was well..CRAP!!! I mean I don´t think that we would have been aloud to let out apartments like that in Sweden....they were worse then flogsta ot any dorm and for that price.....they weren´t to big either, around 25-35 square meters. Well this is what I can get for the money, can you imaging how dissapointed I got? Anyway I was a bit happier today when I at least saw a decent clean studio, the only bad thing about this one is that it only got one window that doesn´t get to much light. I will see more apartments tomorrow and if neither of those looks better....I will probably decide for the one I looked at today. The really goodd thing about this one is that is has everything in the surrounding, restaurants, shops etc, but unfortunately no parking....but well I don´t have a car yet so at the moment that is fine. But we will see.....
There is also a storm coming in over Boston during the night and there are warnings about a couple of inch of snow...doesn´t sound to much to me but that is what everyone have been talking about the past couple of days.
Alright that is all for now and I hope to hear about you at home soon.....
Many hugs and...what the hell it is Valentines day....Lots of kisses!!
//Dr. Do
fredag 9 februari 2007
First day at work
Hi,
How you doin? So, finally, I am well enough to start working. This is my first day at work and I really do not know what to do. Well I have been to the HR officer and will meet with the receptionist to get entrycard and stuff like that soon. I also need to get an social security number as soon as possible, to be able to get paid. I am actually wondering how much that will be after tax. However...they told me that I could get a month payment in advance to settle in.
Anyway everyone is very friendly and helpful in the lab. and of course happy to see that I am alive. So I now I just need to do what it takes to settle down. At least I got my space, both office space and lab space, but I think I will have to clean a bit before I can start. I am very excited to start now.
Take care and have a nice weekend!!
Best
Anh-Tri
How you doin? So, finally, I am well enough to start working. This is my first day at work and I really do not know what to do. Well I have been to the HR officer and will meet with the receptionist to get entrycard and stuff like that soon. I also need to get an social security number as soon as possible, to be able to get paid. I am actually wondering how much that will be after tax. However...they told me that I could get a month payment in advance to settle in.
Anyway everyone is very friendly and helpful in the lab. and of course happy to see that I am alive. So I now I just need to do what it takes to settle down. At least I got my space, both office space and lab space, but I think I will have to clean a bit before I can start. I am very excited to start now.
Take care and have a nice weekend!!
Best
Anh-Tri
onsdag 7 februari 2007
Day 10, still not well yet.......
Dear Friends,
Thank you so much for the caring wihes and comments, I really hope that i will live up to the expectations. Anyway it is now day 10 and I am still ill and have not started to work yet. I think I will stay at home the rest of this week too so really get back on track. It does feel awful to start the new job by being on 2 weeks of sick-leave and I really hope that my new boss have understanding over this, otherwise I am in big trouble or I might see you all again sooner that we´ve all thought.
You know what? I had my first cup of coffee in 10 days and is wasn´t as bad as I thought. Although I must say that it is the first time I made coffe in the microvave and using something like a teabag. You know how many kilo´s I have lost this past one and a half week?.........5 kilo!!!! I feel soooo unhealthily thin now.... :(
Take care and don´t forget me ok!!
Hugs
Anh-Tri
Thank you so much for the caring wihes and comments, I really hope that i will live up to the expectations. Anyway it is now day 10 and I am still ill and have not started to work yet. I think I will stay at home the rest of this week too so really get back on track. It does feel awful to start the new job by being on 2 weeks of sick-leave and I really hope that my new boss have understanding over this, otherwise I am in big trouble or I might see you all again sooner that we´ve all thought.
You know what? I had my first cup of coffee in 10 days and is wasn´t as bad as I thought. Although I must say that it is the first time I made coffe in the microvave and using something like a teabag. You know how many kilo´s I have lost this past one and a half week?.........5 kilo!!!! I feel soooo unhealthily thin now.... :(
Take care and don´t forget me ok!!
Hugs
Anh-Tri
söndag 4 februari 2007
....Day 7 in Boston.......
...and I am still lying i bed but getting a bit bored. Hopefully I will be back soon. I got my first good sign of recovering last night., and guess what that was?.....I dreamt about a big and looooooong "smörgåsbord" with lots of lots of meat!! Mmmmm that wouldl have beeen sooooo goood!!!! Gosh I would give sooo mcuh for a tasty piece of meat right now. I wonder how many kilos I have lost during this week?
Take care for now and I will hopefulle return with more interesting stuff soon
Hugs.
P.S Tack för att krya på dig hälsningar och omtanke, "You are the best" som man säger härborta!! D.S
Take care for now and I will hopefulle return with more interesting stuff soon
Hugs.
P.S Tack för att krya på dig hälsningar och omtanke, "You are the best" som man säger härborta!! D.S
fredag 2 februari 2007
...getting better....
Dear friends,
How are you? I hope that you all are better than me at the moment. Anyway, it is day 5 of my life overhere and I am not recovered yet from the illness, but at least am am getting better. By the way...sorry Sylwia for the germs that I might have passed on to you, I hope that you are feeling fine now.
You want to know a funny thing?...since i ave been quite ill I haven´t really bothered to find out anything about where I live if there are any numbers people can reach me etc..it feels strange to have so little information about my situation in a totally new place. I know that some of you might get a bit worried but well I promise that I do take care of myself and as soon as I am fit enough I will have more information to report to you ok. In the meantime I can still be reached on my regular mobile and mail.
Ok, time to rest a bit again, take care and thanks you all for you nice thoughts!!
Hugs
Anh-Tri
How are you? I hope that you all are better than me at the moment. Anyway, it is day 5 of my life overhere and I am not recovered yet from the illness, but at least am am getting better. By the way...sorry Sylwia for the germs that I might have passed on to you, I hope that you are feeling fine now.
You want to know a funny thing?...since i ave been quite ill I haven´t really bothered to find out anything about where I live if there are any numbers people can reach me etc..it feels strange to have so little information about my situation in a totally new place. I know that some of you might get a bit worried but well I promise that I do take care of myself and as soon as I am fit enough I will have more information to report to you ok. In the meantime I can still be reached on my regular mobile and mail.
Ok, time to rest a bit again, take care and thanks you all for you nice thoughts!!
Hugs
Anh-Tri
torsdag 1 februari 2007
....bad start...
......sorry for not reporting before...but I had a pretty bad start here in Boston. Either it was before on on the plane, I caugh the flu or something real bad so I had the worst flight ever in my life over here. Well, finally arriving in Boston I had to rest right away and since then I have been in bed. Today was the first day that I actually could eat and sit up to write this message.
Anyway I am feeling better and hopefuly the normal energetic Anh-Tri wil be back. I already miss you all very much, escpecially lying in bed in a totally foreign and cold country. Thanks for all the emails from you back home, they have really made me felt much better today.
Lots of love
Anh-Tri
Anyway I am feeling better and hopefuly the normal energetic Anh-Tri wil be back. I already miss you all very much, escpecially lying in bed in a totally foreign and cold country. Thanks for all the emails from you back home, they have really made me felt much better today.
Lots of love
Anh-Tri
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