At the end of my first year I found a paid position as PhD student at the Paris 5 university and the French Geographical Institute. Of course, I accepted this great opportunity! Right after my master on AI I went to Korea and to Vienna to visit some friends. Then I moved to the German house in the Cité U. After a couple of months Julia offered me to share her flat in Cachan, not far away from Paris; I moved there on January 2003.