Atlanta here I come!

Hello everyone!

Finally, I have gotten around to creating my new blogg. As most of you already know, Charles and I moved to Atlanta, Georgia on May 2nd. Two and a half weeks have past since then, but oooh what crazy weeks they have been. This is acutally the first day that we have been able to relax a bit and actually catch up with our jetlag (we slept 11 hours last night). :)

(For those of you who don't know why we moved to Atlanta... Charles was accepted to an MBA program at Emory University in Atlanta in the middle of March. Once he had been accepted we started discussing what we should do, go to Atlanta together to start a whole new life or stay in Sweden and hope that Charles would learn Swedish and find a job there. As you already know, we decided for the first alternative... even though it was a very tough decision to leave my wonderful family and friends and a great job.)

So I'm sure you all are wondering why I haven't written you or called you yet... surely she has had the time... it has gone more than 2 weeks!!! Well, after finding an apartment, getting bank accounts, getting customer accounts with the gas company and the power company, extending the hotel because our apartment was not ready, searching for the best cell phone deal, buying cell phones, moving into the apartment with only our 4 suitcases, shopping for the most necessary things for the apartment (air matress, plates and glasses), running back and forth with our rental car to the nearst Panera Bread Co. to have internet access, ordering a set up for telephone, internet and cable TV, looking for furniture (went to IKEA, of course), Charles is starting his introduction at Emory, buying some used furniture from a girl who just finished the same program as Charles (but we have to wait a week to pick up the furniture), I recieve phone calls from recruiters wondering if I'm still looking for a job and setting up meetings, going to welcome dinner with the international students in Charles class, looking for a used car to buy, finally internet has been hooked up, buy a TV, found a used car we like but the money wire hasn't arrived yet, looking for more used cars (still no money), renting Uhaul to pick up furniture, exploring Target almost everyday, finally recieved money wire, went directly to Carmax and bought a Ford Focus barely before closing hour, I started going to interviews with recruiters and directly with companies... about then is when Charles and I fell asleep (still on our air matress) at 10:00 p.m. last night and woke up 11 hours later, happy that we finally could relax a little. So even though I know that there are no excuses for not emailing or calling you all, but I have been quite busy. :)

So, anyway to give you a little more details, we now live a The Park at Briarcliff (not far from Emory University on the east side of Atlanta). It is a closed community, meaning that we need a card to get through the gate, and has a very nice peaceful atmosphere, lots of trees and space between the buildings.









There's a nice pool with a beach volleyball court, tennis courts, a small gym and a nice little lake.










I think I'll wrap things up for this time. Next time, I'll try to give you an idea about how life is in Atlanta, now that we feel pretty settled down.

Kram, Gloria