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23 octobre 2007

american junk food

american junk food
I am sure many people have hard time to imagine how a French guy who goes to McDonalds once a year can survive in a country whose first reputation (ok, second)(first for french people) lies in its junk food...! Just a few pictures to demonstrate: then...
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2 mars 2007

End of the week

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...
25 mars 2007

An ordinary morning

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...
27 juin 2007

Clarksburg day

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...
26 février 2007

A long journey

A long journey
As André had rent a car for the week-end (a luxury automatic Saab !:-)), he took me to the airport. Much traffic, ... overside! :-) At the airport, my bags seem to have a little overweight... but that doesn't seem to be a problem anyway. 2 hours later,...
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27 février 2007

Washington Main Mall

Washington Main Mall
Today, Allana takes me to Washington DC. We first meet her friend Adriana , and go for lunch at the "Salsa" restaurant, where we get a langouste (also called spiny lobster) paella. After that, Allana takes me to the Washington Mall (we pass in front of...
28 février 2007

Preparing to go...

Preparing to go...
Allana drops me at NIST, so that I can have a look at where to go the next day... but they don't let me in! So, I spend one hour at a bus stop waiting ... (many bus stops don't have any other information that bus lines deserving the place); so I decide...
1 mars 2007

First day at NIST

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...
3 avril 2007

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

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...
21 août 2007

day out in Baltimore

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...
30 juin 2008

Avril: Les cerisiers du Japon en fleurs à Washington DC

Avril: Les cerisiers du Japon en fleurs à Washington DC
Le 6 avril, on est allé sur DC, avec le "groupe de quartier" de Ben et quelques autres amis pour voir l'événement annuel: les cerisiers que le Japon avait offert à Washington DC, sont en fleurs... au Japon, c'est un grand événement, et c'est un des événements...
7 janvier 2008

hiking with Ben today : a few pictures

hiking with Ben today : a few pictures
Today, Ben invited me to join him for a hike along the Potomac river, and its canal for those who don't know, Ben is working at NIST, is also computer scientist, and we met the first time at the bible study at NIST. Then we met again when I dropped once...
30 juin 2008

Mise à jour...

Mise à jour...
Le groupe "simply christianity", où j'ai été avec mon collègue de bureau Vorapong Mon ami Ben, qui s'amuse à pousser les arbres au NIST Quelques photos du voisinage, ce printemps Un essai sur les fleurs et buissons autour de la maison... Quelques gars...
7 octobre 2007

A week-end at the atlantic beach

A week-end at the atlantic beach
The Schmerbecks invited me, and October the 6th, we went to the Atlantic beach... as the atlantic beach is rather long, this is a link to show you a bit more! (chose "hybrid" or "satellite" view) So, first we passed the bridge to reach the peninsula ......
27 juin 2007

The Moodys

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...
1 décembre 2007

Et c'est reparti pour 8 mois!

Mon séjour en France (6 au 25 novembre 2007) je ne le décris pas. D'une part, je suis déjà assez à la bourre, et puis j'ai oublié ma deuxième raison... mais en gros, je suis arrivé à l'aéroport à Paris le 6, le 7 je suis passé à l'ambassade des USA pour...
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...
1 août 2008

Aujourd'hui (pardon, hier), mon dernier jour au NIST!!

Après 18 mois 2 jours (ou quelque chose comme ça), ça y est, le NIST a fermé ses portes sur mes pas. J'ai vérifié, je n'ai déjà plus accès au webmail!! Dieu fait bien les choses, j'ai fini en douceur... avec un dernier cours de danse :-) ... j'ai passé...
25 février 2007

The week-end before I leave

The week-end before I leave
I was welcomed by my brother in Paris... here you see a picture of my brother and my little niece (1 month 15 days) !
19 août 2008

Visite des Moodys avec Amy

Visite des Moodys avec Amy
On est allé danser avec Amy, hier soir (dimanche). Un petit souvenir de son passage: Wendy a eu un petit Josiah, il y a 5 semaines... je n'étais pas passé depuis Novembre dernier! Amy a proposé de m'emmener... :-)
18 août 2008

fete d'adieu...

fete d'adieu...
Première image: de gauche à droite, commençant en haut: Ben, Harold, YooYoung, Jae, Patrick, Patrick, Charlotte, Yoon, Lucy, Renessa, Deuxième image: de gauche à droite: Harold, Gayla, Steve, moi, Ben, Charlotte, Yoon, Jae, Annabel et Amy
3 avril 2007

From the snow to the spring

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... ;-)
30 avril 2007

Pink hues under the sun of spring...

Pink hues under the sun of spring...
Here just a few pictures of what could be seen the last days...
10 juin 2008

Divers

Il faudrait bien que je mette à jour le blog... En attendant, les dernières nouvelles: Aujourd'hui Un ours au NIST Samedi dernier: premier passage chez le coiffeur depuis... (désolé, pas de photo! ;-))
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