Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Oklahoma (5th) New Haven (11-13), Boston (15-16), Brussels (26-28)

August was a blur of trips and activities. On the 5th, I traveled to Oklahoma and back (wanted to spend as little time there as possible – though the people were very nice).

I attended a 3 day long training session in New Haven, CT for CogState the 11th – 13th. This was a packed, but fun 3 days. It was nice to see some of my friends from Australia and to meet the new staff in the New Haven office. I didn’t sleep much though, as I kept getting sucked into the Olympics every single night while working in my hotel room.

On the 15th, I traveled to Boston for about 24 hours to give a talk at an Investigator meeting for a drug study. I was teaching a group how to administer a couple of neuropsychological tests.

On the 26th, I traveled to Brussels, Belgium. I arrived early morning on the 27th, slept in my hotel room for about 45 minutes and then got on a train to head to the training site. The major highlights of the training were getting myself locked in a bathroom and having to pound on the door and yell for 10 minutes until someone heard me and let me out – and – trying to type in front of 10 people on a keyboard that 1) wasn’t in English and 2) all the keys were in different places!

Following all this excitement, I worked for 4 hours and then got back on the train to the hotel room, slept for about 6 hours and then got back on an airplane coming home! As my friends say….I’ve been around the world and seen absolutely NOTHING!

Sadly, the only pictures I have from any of these trips are these from the AIRPORT (!!!!) in Brussels!! ...I guess that just about sums it up..... :(






I did take some time out to buy some chocolate though. "When in Belgium...."

Little pubs like this one were all over the place.

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