by cwells | Jul 28, 2013 | Graduate School, Pix, Residency, Transit, Travel
One of the cultural excursions for the residency was a dinner cruise on the Seine River, which runs through Paris and gave us a unique vantage point from which to see Paris. Although we had seen some areas from the double-decker bus tour (a hop-on, hop-off tour is a...
by cwells | Jul 28, 2013 | Culture, Food, Residency
Food plays a huge role in the life of Paris, and there are many places to eat and enjoy a meal. If you have my blog posts, you know that food and culture are very interesting to me. As a vegetarian, I sometimes score a win, and sometimes I am served something…...
by cwells | Jul 25, 2013 | Car, Graduate School, Residency, Tribe
The interesting thing about residencies is that sometimes, you run into folks that you have met before. This residency is a fairly small group of people, and I have already made some solid connections of colleagues that may be very helpful. Just like in middle school,...
by cwells | Jul 23, 2013 | Air, Car, Food, Graduate School, Pix, Residency, Train, Travel, Tribe
Yesterday was a travel day. If you are not a person who travels long-distance by plane, then you miss the joy of flying for a number of hours, navigating through airports, eating airport food (some good, some bad), being in close quarters with strangers, and being...
by cwells | Jul 17, 2013 | Air, Graduate School, Residency, Travel, Tribe
My last residency for my PhD program is in Paris, a city where I have worked in the past and enjoy a great deal. There’s something for everyone in Paris, and the best thing to me is that I get to enjoy it with my tribe! Instead of staying in the residency hotel,...
by cwells | Jul 11, 2013 | Air, Culture, Employment, Expat, Graduate School, Residency, Spain, Travel
The world is strange. Bureaucracy is even stranger. While I am willing to throw caution to the wind in some carefully considered situations, I know that I must carefully managed other events in my life, or they will manage me. Consider, gentle reader, the concept of a...
