Wednesday, February 18, 2009

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Feeling better

Here are just a short message to not let the previous message home. Rest assured all is well! :)
This weekend I discovered the "artists" of San Francisco. I found myself without really knowing how, in a rave with guys completely shoots and more bizarre as each other. In short all is well!

And give me ideas for future articles. What would you know?

Thursday, February 12, 2009

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Imagine you without money for one day

Big scare today.

I went to the "Social Security Office" to get my social security number and be well paid. The only problem is that I used my last $ to get there and then I could not withdraw money (I had exceeded the ceiling of 650 € / week). Imagine the trick :
  • you're an hour from home by bus (which runs every half hour ...)
  • you are expected to work
  • you still 3 cents
  • you're exhausted from your first week
  • and you must wait 2 hours in a chair before your favorite number
  • you have no idea of where you are because you have filed
Questions
  • How to return to work? On foot? But this is where?!
  • How to Eat? Well yes it is already noon ... and stuff, makes you hungry! How
  • do not cry? : D
short hard drive ... Finally, by sending an sms to Olivier (the colleague who hosted the first week), I learned that the bus driver could even let us in without paying (they are nice sometimes it seems). By calling my father, I learned that one could ask for a cash advance to his employer. And calling my roommate, I learned that he could not pick me because he is at work and it's super far from where I am (it feels very only after this kind of phone call where you explain that you are * beep * in and you need help).

Finally, stroke of luck: when I pass the bus and the driver let me in after I explained that I could not withdraw money to the distributor. After an hour bus ride, I not far from work. I found a place to eat (as I could pay with my credit card by some miracle) and I go home to get my computer (30 min walk).

I wonder just 5 minutes and I'll be leaving in the opposite direction to go to work. Finally I arrive at work around 14h and then I request an advance. I am told we can only make me a check. I therefore set up an account to cash the $ 1500 and hope to have the cash right away.

In the end, everything ends well, my bank "gives" a $ 100 bill and put the rest on the newly created account. PHEW! I'm going to eat tomorrow! And by the way tonight because I ate my roommate made me an Indian dish ... thank you!

And you have done how?!

Money does not buy happiness ??

Monday, February 9, 2009

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budget of my first week (ouch!)

Let's talk a little money !
Not to pity Dad / Mom and receive more (you're already doing a lot!) But rather to give you an idea if ever you want to live here.
So I made a small stock of this week, and I must say it has cost me the skin of underpants! Yet I did nothing extraordinary: metro-boulot-dodo. Except the first weekend I arrived, it is a bit out (cinema, bar twice [well yes should be good buddies: D]).

$ 337. That's it, I dropped the piece ... Yes, you read correctly! $ 337! Or 260 € for a single week or a tiny bit over 40 € / day ...
xD Yes it is a lot! This is the double of my budget at Troyes. If I continue like this, I will spend close to $ 1500 per month just to eat, drink a small glass from time to time and go to the movies every once in a while.

For the curious, I made a small listing of my expenses. Here it is.

- $ 10 adapter plug
- $ 12 sushi
- $ 15 brunch x2
- $ 30 beers + tapas x2
- $ 3 coca arrival
- $ 14 restaurant salad x2
- $ 10 as laptop (yes I have not taken an iPhone )
- $ 10 credit as
- $ 10 Thai
- $ 10 Pho Vietnamese
- $ 10 Mexican
- $ 15 half gasoline
- $ 10 movies
- $ 5 magazine
- $ 8 train -> job
- $ 7 beers
- $ 4 oreo
- $ 7 muffin x4 (1 each morning: D)
- $ 12 for transport to arrive since SF
- $ 7 subway
- $ 10 caribbean
- $ 10 pizza + orange juice
- $ 10 McDonalds

Bouffe = $ 159 per week (!)
Exceptional expenditure (adapter jack, telephone ...) = $ 32 + $ 50 ( made in error to a bartender [no it's fatigue, nothing ...])
Current expenditure (transport, telephone credit) = $ 48 TOTAL =


And $ 289 is missing $ 48 to $ 337 have disappeared. I do not know where they went.

As you noticed, the bulk of the budget is spent on food. Indeed, every day, eat outside, because the box does not res. So we arrive at $ 10/day for meals. But as soon as I installed it would be easier to slap these expenses by shopping and cooking at home (if I have the courage!). The days are exhausting. In any case the former is very hard.

now you know everything!
the next episode, there will be buying the bed, a desk, a chair, a trick to extend the clothes, sheets, a CAR (! My first car there that me!) and can be a phone worthy of a true engineer (something with unlimited internet, access to Google Maps to emails, and full of useless apps so essential): an iPhone.

And that's where I tell myself that $ 3,000 will go very fast:)
Especially that $ 3,000 gross turn into $ 2,600 then $ 1,900 net (1400 €) after the rent ($ 700). So we have to go to the bank to save at least 30% per month ($ 570) automatically if I want to travel a bit (a lot) this summer across the USA.

And stop telling me I'm only € 1400 off. It is not in Troyes: D

PS: I feel that this article not going to please you my darling, there's too many digits ^ ^

Sunday, February 8, 2009

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Expressions recurring

Forget the English they teach you in school. Here, conversations are punctuated with expressions not required to do too much abroad (despite the accent).


I've noticed especially four returning often:
- the word like getting married all the sauces, if you want to clarify his thoughts. Example: It was like ... 3:00 AM. Do not ask me what is he doing the word "like" I do not know, but to force, I know where to put it too: P
- I mean the expression who return each time you like something wrong but otherwise. Example: You can do it this way (put here what you want). I mean (repetition of what you say but by changing the words).
- small sounds great! to show your enthusiasm for the idea that comes from you be submitted
- the famous You Know ... which ends on 4 3 sentences, so no, you do not know at all what it is ... ^ ^

Incidentally, I noticed that I sometimes (often!) Of smile or laugh when I understood nothing . Yeah ... it thins the conversation if I'm repeating the same stuff 15 times and I doubt it sucks to be DA force it will come ...

And of course I speak of discussions job. There when I do not understand: I do not understand . So I ask again, or so I try to rephrase what you just told me to see if I got it all. And you, how would you have done for me?

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moua crowns for fotes ^ ^ I installed

As some of you have pointed out to me (huh Navy ^ ^), my previous articles were packed of mistakes in grammar, spelling, etc.. Dad and Lydia if you read this message and you read the other before they are corrected (thank you Navy [the passage if there are mistakes it is what he should complain lol]) I'm sure you've already said "hey there fault! ". Am I wrong?! ( Maniacs ^ ^)

short, I'll make an effort to future articles so that you can focus more on content and not on form ... (This is clever it makes me work more ... Already it takes me time to tell you all this ... ^ ^)

Note: In addition I learned that Gilles (father Marines) had already come take a look here then I understand that you do not want to look bad: D

Saturday, February 7, 2009

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Ay! Who

That, at least one good thing done: I just me install in my new room. Installer is a big word because I only send my suitcase in a room empty of furniture! So even camping since I borrowed the bed of one of my roommates who is not here this weekend.

This afternoon, I go to bed. I found a bed frame + mattress king size for $ 70 ... It seems really cheap. I'll see (and try: D) before I decide. For the rest (room etc ...) that wait a bit. This is not the most important.

Friday, February 6, 2009

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read this blog?

Hard to stay motivated to write articles for it if nobody reads them ... That's why I decided to ask you a favor. Can you add a comment to this article to give me your name?
I did not ask to post a comment to every story: just one on it (of course you can comment on other items ... but if you're shy do it here at least once!)

thank you =)

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The standard of living in Palo Alto

Cars
You see the photo on the left ? Yes yes ... Porsche, which costs an arm and a leg ... Well here is some equivalent of the Clio in France! Of course I exaggerate, but I wanted to emphasize that people here are very (very very very very ... "I've put enough?) Off. Or people living on credit loans (also possible, but still !)....


houses
Okay, I admit, the photo of Porsche was bogus. I picked at random from Google, but for once, the picture I put you on the right is a house that does exist (click on photo to read more) Palo Alto (for those who have not followed, that is where are the offices of the box that hire me) . You see some kind?! The type of house so beautiful, so design and tidy so they dare not live in it: D (though!) . In short, making a walk in the vicinity of the work, all I saw houses more beautiful, larger and more original than the others. It goes from the design house like this in the cabin which is a little ranch (while class of course) to the white house with covered terrace overlooking the street. Yes but you know .... terraces with the Rolling Chairs? The cliché American par excellence:)

Companies
Larger companies that are closely or remotely to computers are here ... It's so funny, when I am looking for a flat and I read the ads is always indicated a distance to go to Google, Facebook or HP! It's weird ... (I'm sure you do it is neither hot nor cold, but me is just my dream to create a box like that, then you will understand that I am crazy: D). Here, companies millions brew, but it is no accident: in Palo Alto is one of the most prestigious universities in the scientific world: Stanford (That's where designers come out of Google, Facebook, etc. ...). And most importantly, people here dare. They have an idea, present it to venture capitalists. All this can start very quickly if you are convincing. Another thing, these companies are all exceptional due to their benefits, but also and especially by their innovation. You may have already heard about the Tesla Roadster? Is not it? In short it is a sports car but ultra-powerful electric! It was daring! (Yeah there's more to vroom vroom

....) So here is the outline of Palo Alto. A city as large as Troyes (60 000) but has nothing to see!

Note: For evenings cons, it will definitely take a look at San Francisco. Here the atmosphere is not mad ... (They are where artists here ???).

Note 2: I've drunk with Korea? Well you did not finish me talking about California! ^ ^

Thursday, February 5, 2009

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my housing search

A roommate
A short message to keep you informed of my situation. I found a room (picture left) in a house shared by three people already (so I would be 4th hopefully!). I visited one evening and to avoid unpleasant surprises I decided to visit it again in daylight. Anyway, I met two guys (I have not met the third person by cons) who live there and they are very nice. 30 years, most riders. They look posed, but fun nonetheless, especially open-minded (at least that's the impression they gave me by talking with them a few minutes). The apartment is not too dirty (it's hard to have something clean and tidy when you live to 4) so that's reassuring as well (otherwise I'll freak: D).

price, description Sites
For details, is a house 30 mins walk from work. The rent is $ 700 with water, electricity and internet included. You may find it expensive, but yet it is one of the cheapest rooms I've found here! (It is rather in the $ 1000 or else ...)
There is a small private parking for cars in front, or a barbecue and a veranda. The trick is very well equipped (full kitchen, washer, dryer [down for now], sofa and TV chess in the lounge). The only problem is that the room is not furnished. So I will have to rent a small (not a big as well as how) pickup to go for a ride to Ikea (yes they have that here too) and buy the minimum, ie a bed and a desk.

now you know everything! Oh and then you may want more pictures? If yes, it happens thereby ...

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Time Difference

So many, in Korea, I had not felt too, and my return to France not so much either (except that I went to bed at 22h ...), but here c is really hard ...

Days are roughly $ 9-17h 9h-18h (with a 1 hour break, he must come to 40h/week), but I have to get up early in the morning (except today, sorry darling!) to have a moment where I can talk to Marine on the phone. So I get up on the stroke of 6 or 7am instead of 8am. Short for all that you say, you will understand I think I'm FA-TI-GUE ! Strongly this weekend so I can sleep a little more ... There is hardly 20h and I already want to sleep!

Monday, February 2, 2009

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first day at work

Note: Some words are underlined with dotted lines. Move your mouse over, you will have comments that you will (hopefully) better understand what barbarous language.



Small intro
Intalio Inc.
. Is the name of the Start Up where I'll do my internship for six months. It is an enterprise software publisher of for companies wishing to better manage their "process" (do not ask me what it is!). For more geeks (Julia Youssef, Anass, lol ...), you are concerned they are the same as SAP, that is to say, an ERP but open source and free. For non-geeks , comments are here for:)

And that's the most interesting
So today was my first day of class. I arrived at the premises around 8:30 am with Olivier (with whom I sleep temporarily). There was nobody. Everyone arrived around 9:00. I introduced myself to the team (composed mainly of French and a lot of engineers Mines de Nancy [as CEO]). We are fifteen engineers and the atmosphere is very relaxed. One feels immediately at ease. When I saw happen with the tie, I was told it was not really necessary and there was no dress code. Jeans with holes and flip flops are ok lol:)

Engineers French in a box in the U.S.? You will not really improve your English! Surely what you say you read my stories ... Well think again! Here we speak English, except at rare times (5 minutes at lunch for example). Yes because everyone is not French. There is also a Russian, an Indian and a Korean. Everyone talks very well and the French accent is not really present. I have a little trouble understanding everything there especially acronyms everywhere and a lot of technical language as you can imagine in a company where 100% of employees are engineers.

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Started at 9am with a meeting of 1h weekly to take stock of what to do. I found it rather amusing at the beginning because I came straight into the heart of the matter. But after a few minutes, I quickly saw that it would be difficult for any dip ... SOA, SOAP, programming in the small, Programming in the large, HTTP Connectors ... That Kind of stuff dude (Whoooo how it's farts since he left the states ...).

Then my boss came to me and say what I was going to begin. He asked me if I knew Ruby (a language programming) and Ruby On Rails (a framework for the development of Web applications). Given my negative response, I was politely asked to learn it on the job. So what I did today: I learned Ruby. Obviously I did not finish but tomorrow I should have chewed the biggest piece. I'll then be able to start working on concrete.

schedules (the what?)
The day ended at 18h. Employees started to leave the box to 17h. But here, there is no schedule! Yes, no schedule! Until the job is done, and in time, I can handle my job the way I want. Come at 10 am or 6 am regardless. In short it reminds me very much the spirit of the university:) And I like it a lot! Some even spend some days teleworking. They remain at home to Taff (or not) as there is no real supervision of work performed.

now you know everything (and even a bit more ...) on my first day taff!

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The housing issue

You may be asking the question of where I sleep? (Or not lol) And for you a world exclusive, I'll tell you everything . I was greeted warmly by Oliver and Duke. Olivier is a French 23 years and is a colleague who also works at Intalio. Duke (of the same age I think) is the original Vietnamese and bump on her in a box that makes the law, I understand. In short, a big thank you because without them I would be in the street the time to find a small home ...
short, I squatted their couch and I sleep so their (big, nay huge!) Show. And I must say that sleeps amazingly well on it!
Obviously, I do what I can to find an apartment or a roommate as soon as possible by seeking on a site well known here: Craigslist. That you know everything:)

Sunday, February 1, 2009

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Just arrived

I arrived safely yesterday at 12:55 pm in San Francisco, California. The weather is mild, the sky blue.

I took the metro to the station and take a train to Palo Alto where I hosted the first days before finding my own apartment. I therefore remains to be done. Find a car, buying a phone, open a bank account, ask for my number to safety, prevent the embassy that I am come and give them my address (Big Brother ...). And yet I'm starting my internship tomorrow at 9am! I feel that this month, I will not have the time to get bored!