Anitha's visit

*anitha and me in dc!*

Last week Anitha (from my EMCL program) came to visit me (and another friend) in DC! It was the first time we've seen each other since our courses ended in July, and we were very happy to see each other, even though it was only for a couple of days. We had a nice time hanging out, eating, walking through DC and chatting. Anitha invited me to have lunch with a friend of hers, Mukta, and another friendship was born! Julian and Anitha finally met, although they didn't get to spend much time together. Next time, since Anitha is living in Philadelphia for awhile. We're planning to visit her something this spring :) Here are some pictures from our time together:

*after a delicious lunch-- mukta, anitha, me*


*anitha, me and Julian*

*anitha in front of the white house*

*anitha and the national christmas tree*

*anitha and the washington monument*

*anitha and the capitol building*

My thesis is complete!

Woohoo!! My thesis has been officially accepted and I received a good score, so I'm happy :) Finally, the days and days of reading, studying, analyzing and writing are over! Now I just have to mail the bound copies and wait for my diploma in the mail. It's strange to not have any more corrections, any more articles or statistical tests to run. But I think somehow I'll manage to go on with my days!
The job hunt is still on... but I'm supposed to hear back from one place today, so we'll see how it goes..... please pray for a job for me!

Even while working on my thesis, I was able to make room for a lot of fun events and friends! Here's a sample of photos:


Our friend Corrie celebrated her birthday with lots of salsa:

*julian and corrie dancing at her birthday party!*

*with good friends (herber, zuzi) at corrie's birthday party*

We went to NYC for Thanksgiving weekend to visit my friend Olga and to go to the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade:

*with kermit, Macy's parade*

*thanksgiving day in central park*

*eating hot dogs with our lovely hostess in central park*

*radio city music hall!*

Then Leah Vincent came to visit:

*leah's stepmom designs the national tree, so i was luckily invited to the white house tree lighting ceremony-- here with leah in front of the ohio tree*

*all lit up*

*with leah v*

With SonMas, our salsa rueda group:

*julian, zuzi, me, sarah, mein!*

I was a wise man in a live nativity:

*live nativity*

*julian gaining some wisdom from the wise "men"*

*all the animals were christmas-y*