chronicles of a french guy in the US

10 septembre 2007

Stay prolongued!! :-)

If everything goes the way it is supposed to be, I'll be here for one more year. God directed things in such a way that I was being proposed to work on a project which would be a sort of continuation of my thesis, applied to some work that is done in...

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21 août 2007

day out in Baltimore

Steve invited me for the week-end of 4-5th August, and we went to Baltimore the whole Saturday, I, Steve and Gayla.. :-) We first visited the fort MacHenry, where the national anthem has been composed, celebrating the flag floating still at the top of...

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27 juin 2007

The Moodys

Did I tell you about Chris and Wendy Moody ? I participate in a bible study group for twenty's, from the church I attend to (sure, I am at the age limit! ;-) :-)), and I don't get necessarily that much in touch with people there, but with the ones who...

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27 juin 2007

Clarksburg day

I promise, there is a Clarksburg (the litle tiny town in which houses grow like mushrooms) day!And I have been there (the 2nd of June), like other people from the church (here Thu Ha, if I remember well, the first person I met at the church (and whose...

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30 avril 2007

Pink hues under the sun of spring...

Here just a few pictures of what could be seen the last days...

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3 avril 2007

A few pictures to get an idea of the place where I work

First, when you enter (if you're allowed to), you may be surprised as I was...! (I really thought it was a joke ... until .... ... and try and guess when I was surprised again ? geese ? ... No, well tried, though! Actually, I thought there were maybe...

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3 avril 2007

From the snow to the spring

Just a few pictures to show you that that here too, the colours March 17th: March 26th: March 28th: April, 2nd: No kidding!as a proof of the global warming, here are my colleagues in simple shirt... ;-)

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25 mars 2007

An ordinary morning

When I awake, the sun is already flowing down in the room: here, they don't have necessarily shutters of blinds at the windows. You'll ask me, what are these shutters, I see on the pictures... well, I went to check it out... these have nothing to do with...

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2 mars 2007

End of the week

Today, I get my badge at the security office. I meet Steven Ray, chief of the MSID division The evening, I accompany Allana and Adriana to a dinner in a chic restaurant close to the Potomac river , to meet Judith, a friend of Allana, and her boyfriend...

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1 mars 2007

First day at NIST

The campus is quite big. It takes me more than 10 minutes to go from the entrance to the building 220, that is in the middle of the campus. I meet Ram Sriram at 9:30, and spend most of the day filling in forms, and going from one building to another for...

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