I am excited!

So, let me bring you up to speed to why this blog exists. If you are reading it, chances are you know i just graduated from iCME...iC what?? Exactly! This is the reason why i left, in the end i had forgotten why i came here in the first place. To celebrate the fact that i will never ever have to deal again with my loser team (and some other painful and frustrating people i met at Stanford), I decided to take the summer off and travel (ok, ok, the fact that my H1-B still hasn't been approved has something to do with this too). As soon as i found out i would be out in the real world (euh, if you can call LA the real world :-(( starting from October I figured i had 4 months to do something worth telling my grand children (if and when i ever have some ;-))
Last October, I made a promise to myself that i would make full use of my year-long multiple entry Indian VISA (a sweet revenge for the limited number of days i could stay at Dev's wedding), so India was definitely on my list of places to go...but what would i do there? Maybe something useful for a change? That's where Jane, CEO of Embrace, came to the rescue...while attending a presentation on Embrace (check it out at embraceglobal.org, they really do something pretty cool), I found out they were looking for volunteers for summer, both in the US and in India. To keep a long story short, i'll be flying from Brussels to Hubli on July 30st for a 9 week long adventure on Indian soil where I'll be helping out with the usability testing of the incubator...but more on that later! Before that, I'll finally be spending some time at home...wow, i can't imagine how 2 weeks of holiday at home will feel like...two weeks where i don't have a report to finish, or an advisor to please, or some homeworks to grade, or some quals to study for...no, just two weeks of enjoying the sweetest country in the world! Fantastic! (Oh and in those two weeks, i'll be visiting Paris, Toulouse, Barcelona and Madrid with my "surrogate sister" :-)) Are you all jealous, yet? No? Ok here is some more: After finishing this wonderful roadtrip that is taking me from SF to Houston (Houston? Why Houston? What the hell is there to do in Houston?), I'll be heading out to Ecuador to do some volunteer work with a Dr in Cuenca...we'll be driving around in the jungle with a van transformed into a mobile clinic. So yes, i am excited about this summer!