So, here's my first update of my very first week here in Stockholm. I would have arrived last week on thursday, were it not for the massive snowfall in Holland and Germany. Luckily I could easily change my booking to the next day (never expected that from Ryanair!).
So there I was, sitting in the comfortable and warm bus from the airport to Stockholm centre, reading the temperature from digital thermometers along the road: - 8 C. Oops, I guess I should have brought my long underwear ... Balancing my way over the trampled snow (=ice) I manage to get into Stockholm central station, where I should catch the subway to Brommaplan, close to the room where I will be staying in the beginning. The room is quite ok with some nice classic furniture, although it's in the basement area of the house of the people where I am staying. I don't have too much to do with them, and I have got my own kitchen-like area, shower and toilet, which makes me pretty much the Ruler of my own Dungeon (which you have to admit sounds already much cooler than living in a basement :-)).
So there I was, sitting in the comfortable and warm bus from the airport to Stockholm centre, reading the temperature from digital thermometers along the road: - 8 C. Oops, I guess I should have brought my long underwear ... Balancing my way over the trampled snow (=ice) I manage to get into Stockholm central station, where I should catch the subway to Brommaplan, close to the room where I will be staying in the beginning. The room is quite ok with some nice classic furniture, although it's in the basement area of the house of the people where I am staying. I don't have too much to do with them, and I have got my own kitchen-like area, shower and toilet, which makes me pretty much the Ruler of my own Dungeon (which you have to admit sounds already much cooler than living in a basement :-)).
So, last monday was then my very first day at 'work', or of being a PhD student (which still sounds kind of strange to me :-)) at the Cancer Center Karolinska (CCK), which is part of the Karolinska Institutet, but is also partially privately funded. There are mostly swedish people at the lab, 5 Phd students, and then also one German postdoc and master student, and a PhD student from Servia. For the time being I will work together with a Swedish PhD student, Markus, on a project that has also got much to do with my own (I will explain that some time later), so I can get used to the lab and can learn some experimental techniques from him that I will apply in my own project as well. He's a realy funny guy this Markus, with some really great stories of things that he did wrong during his time as a student at the lab. I've already done quite a bit in the lab already, and I think I am going to have a real good time here at the lab. Well, more news will follow later. Here are then some picture of my room:
1 comment:
Hi Jeroen,
Party was nice!
Lianne will be in stockholm soon ;-)
We will miss you all!
Cheers .... Ludo
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