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Showing posts with label Los Angeles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Los Angeles. Show all posts

Sunday, December 26, 2010

My New Home @ Mozaic

I have been fortunate to have some pretty neat roommates in my nearly 1.5 years here in the LA area, with only one major exception (you know who you are, and you would never read this blog anyhow). To anyone reading who doesn't know who the exception is, ask me some day when you're up for a hearty saga. :) But I digress. Although I have thoroughly enjoyed my roommates heretofore, and have many fond memories to recall, it is time to move on. Our lease was up this month at our charming Culver City house and so I bid adieu to the persistent background hum of 405 traffic, crappy water pressure, the wood floors and stained glass windows I adored, and what I'll miss most of all-- the bike path to the beach. I've traded all of that in for 830 sqft that belong all to meeeee, elevators, a wall of eastward windows that look out to Union Station below, Olvera Street around the corner, The Original Phillipe's within walking distance, and Chinatown just a stone's throw away. This new neighborhood feels like a completely different town (well, it is), and while I only moved, like, 10ish miles away, I feel like my life has already completely changed.

New photos of my new home:



Oh hey, courtyard view from my front door...That's the top of the U.S. Post Office Annex illuminated in the background.

Welcome to my abode:

Palm trees outside my window!

My lil nook:

That's me up on the top floor!

inside Union Station:

Union Station at night.

nighttime traffic on the Avenida.








Saturday, December 12, 2009

Some highlights from my first few months in The Hills.

Out to dinner with my PBL group. What a great first trimester with these guys.

From the October day I tried "studying" at the beach.

Our awesome kindergarteners we taught oral health care (SO happy for toothbrushes!):
what I do in dental school:

first (?) trojan football game


Korean BBQ from our first week of school (I'm the conspicuous blonde on the right):


Peace out, Los Angeles-- I'm headed Home For The Holidays. (Yes, that phrase warrants initial caps.) See ya in a few...

Sunday, September 20, 2009

White Coat Ceremony

Good news, peeps. The $6 USB cable I ordered off of ebay from China just arrived in the mail the other day, which means I can *finally* post some photos! I'm terribly behind, so bear with me while I indulge in some reminiscing of recent events over the last month...

So I'm in LA! Moved out here roughly a month ago, and two days ago was the one-year anniversary of my interview at USCSD. Little did I know that that day would be the beginning of my life in southern California. August 28th was the USCSD White Coat Ceremony, officially kicking off my dental education. I'm going to be a dentist for reals, yo!

Tommy Trojan

Me and Mark, a fellow BYU-er

Me and TLee, the awesomest girl on the block. When TLee introduced me to her parents, I apologized that I couldn't shake their hands because I had a drink in one hand and a cookie in another. Her mother said, "That's okay, you'll just get fat," to which TLee retorted, "Mom! Not to people I like!"

Some of my fellow dentites...

My new bff, Mercedes (she went to U of U; I suppose I won't hold it against her)