PhD/Post-Doc positions acquired!

We have been boozing – so forgive any mishaps spelling/grammar-wise! Tonight was a night for celebration! My Love has received an offer for a postdoctoral position at Stanford University, I have accepted my PhD position at Potsdam University, and we were also celebrating our engagement, which happened a while back but we hadn’t yet celebrated with my sister!

We also have some travel in the near future to get excited about! Today is Wednesday, and on Saturday morning we are flying out to Paris! This trip was supposed to be an opportunity to scout for positions in neuroscience labs in Europe, but now that we both have jobs that we have either accepted or will have accepted by tomorrow, it will be a good opportunity to just relax and meet some researchers in our fields, with no pressure of finding a job/PhD position!

As soon as we get back from this trip we will be in organisation-mode, filling out visa application forms etc. but for the next two weeks we will be travelling through Europe! I have never been to Europe before, and have been waiting for this opportunity for more than a decade now. I just always felt that my studying was too important to put off for travelling, and I guess that is about to pay off!

Our plan is to fly into Paris for a couple of days, then to London for three days, then to Berlin for about a week, and finally back to Paris for three or four days before we come back to NZ. We will attempt to update this blog as we leave each city with photos etc. I am planning to keep blog posts to about an A4 page long, but I may go over this in our Paris blogs, because I have dreamed of visiting Paris for so long now I wouldn't want to skimp on the details for you!

I will be living in Berlin, Germany, and my Love will be living in Palo Alto, USA.

This is going to be a big year!