Graduation was fun! Here is a photo of my grandma, my aunt and ME - in my silly graduation clothing! We enjoyed the five days together, despite the freezing Boston temperatures and constant rain. My parents and my sister also came for the ceremony!
Friday, May 25, 2007
Graduation
Graduation was fun! Here is a photo of my grandma, my aunt and ME - in my silly graduation clothing! We enjoyed the five days together, despite the freezing Boston temperatures and constant rain. My parents and my sister also came for the ceremony!
In NYC after graduation!
I've spent the last month traveling around Europe a bit...
I went first to London for a training seminar. That was a revealing trip, because I realized just how much the Americans spending dollars suffer when they take leisure trips to England! My seminar was in Tring, and it was run by a rather good NGO, but I never received the details of the location before arriving in London. When the border control asked me where I was staying, I gave them the hotel name. Then they asked me what I would do in London, so I told them I was going to a Conference. But since I didn't know the exact address, the woman started interrogating me about my profession and my financial resources. After a minute she started openly suggesting that I was entering England legally but that I was intending to stay on and work illegally as some kind of economic migrant! I eventually had to make up a massive lie about being a corporate lawyer, starting in the Fall. If this were the first time the Brits have implied I'm an economic refugee...~!!?! Anyway, Tring was pretty, and the train ride out there was wonderful, but more than one day in a live-in hostel would have been too much. From the exercise, I learned I'm a natural leader but that I have anger management issues when I consider someone intellectually challenged.
After England, I got on Easy Jet - and then from Geneva I went on to Savoie, en France. I saw a small village with a gorgeous hotel castle, and then went on to the town of Chambery, which had a great castle! Chambery is just beautiful, with so many original medieval buildings and passageways in the old town.
I went first to London for a training seminar. That was a revealing trip, because I realized just how much the Americans spending dollars suffer when they take leisure trips to England! My seminar was in Tring, and it was run by a rather good NGO, but I never received the details of the location before arriving in London. When the border control asked me where I was staying, I gave them the hotel name. Then they asked me what I would do in London, so I told them I was going to a Conference. But since I didn't know the exact address, the woman started interrogating me about my profession and my financial resources. After a minute she started openly suggesting that I was entering England legally but that I was intending to stay on and work illegally as some kind of economic migrant! I eventually had to make up a massive lie about being a corporate lawyer, starting in the Fall. If this were the first time the Brits have implied I'm an economic refugee...~!!?! Anyway, Tring was pretty, and the train ride out there was wonderful, but more than one day in a live-in hostel would have been too much. From the exercise, I learned I'm a natural leader but that I have anger management issues when I consider someone intellectually challenged.
After England, I got on Easy Jet - and then from Geneva I went on to Savoie, en France. I saw a small village with a gorgeous hotel castle, and then went on to the town of Chambery, which had a great castle! Chambery is just beautiful, with so many original medieval buildings and passageways in the old town.
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