A Place of my Own!

On 6 Feb 12 I was finally allowed to move into my flat!  It's really nice to have my own space again; sometimes you just need to sit in a quiet place.  I've got a little kitchen, a bathroom, a bed, a desk, and a nice chair for reading.  I also bought a bike!  It's a red road bike, which makes it something of an oddity here in the land of city cruisers.  I'm also probably one of 10 people in this city who wears a helmet, and the other 9 only do it when they race competitively.  But that's okay.

My bike (red-orange), my building (green), and snow (white).

My room, looking from desk to kitchen.

My room, looking from kitchen to desk.
Note the nice guitar :)

View from my west-facing window.

It's a pretty nice place.  The first couple weeks were FREEZING, though.  Do you know how cold and difficult it is to bike in -15 C into a 15 kph headwind on snow?  Well, if you're from the States, you should convert that over to customary first, then tell me. :-p  The answer is REALLY COLD.

Classes are good so far (it's been 2 weeks now).  I've got Coastal Dynamics, which meats 4 days per week, 2 hrs per day.  I've also got Computational Modelling of Flow and Transport, which only meets 2 hrs per week.  Then there's Probabilistic Design, which is a video-lecture from last quarter.  Finally, I've got a multi-disciplinary project (working with Aline, Bojan, and Trisno).  It'll be a busy semester, but it should be a good one.