Ok so it has been rather a long time since I wrote in this blog. I decided that since I am so far away from pretty much everyone, I should use this to try and keep you all updated all at once. I say try because I am learly rubbish at this blog thing but I will try my best :)

So update so far:

I passed my Master's degree in Molecular Biology of Infectious Diseases and graduated from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in November 2006. I had about a month and a half off afterwards, while I was looking for work, visiting people and just general letting myself forget everything I had just been taught!

At the begining of November I officially moved in with Jeremy and I got a job with Abbott Laboratories in Dartford (just outside London on the East side), where I was a technician making the kits that hospitals use to diagnose HIV. It was a good enough job but not exactly what I envisaged myself doing for the rest of my life, so relatively quickly I started looking for something else. I began to write away to my degree tutors contacts to see if any of them had open positions.

To begin with there were an awful lot of no's but eventually Professor George Cross from Rockefeller University in New York said maybe! He had to wait to see if he was going to get money, but it was the most positive answer I had recieved so I was happy :)

A couple of months and lots of paperwork later I was offered a 1 year contract with the university and Jeremy and I decided it was an opportunity we couldn't refuse. So we booked our flights and I handed in my notice at Abbott.

On the 24th September 2007 we got on the plane to New York to start a big adventure :)