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| Our pilot, taking us to England! :D |
WHAT A MONTH! Hello everyone, welcome back to my blog and
once again my schedule has been so full I have had no time to sit down and
write my blog. Finally I have the afternoon free and really wanted to catch you
all up on what has been going on in my life and work.
When I last left you I was preparing for my trip to the UK.
Before I left I had to prepare an overview of my project for Roger Butlin and a
presentation for his research team, as I would be visiting him on the 20th
of December. The trip to the UK went great and just two days after arriving, I
was traveling from London to Sheffield to meet Roger to discuss my project.
After discussing the project with him and his research team for almost an
entire day, I had many great ideas for my project, but my brain felt as if it
was going to explode! Once my brain had returned to normal size, I took the
time to summarise all the new ideas and information into a “short” 1000 word
document for my supervisors and then took a break for Christmas.
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| Christmas Dinner! |
Although I went home on for the Christmas “break” it was far
from a relaxing one, with so many friends to see and so much to do! However I had a really great time with friends and family
during my visit. My partner and I also had one big announcement and that was
that we are expecting our second son in May! After a relaxing New years party
and a few days more in England trying to finish my ethics report, we headed
back home to Bodø. When we got home, I was there for a grand total of one day
before I jetted off to Prague. This was my first ever trip to the Czech
Republic and I was so happy to meet a good old friend who lives in Prague.
Although my bag was lost in Oslo, I still had a great time with him and was so grateful
to have him there for support! After two nights in Prague I was on the three-hour
bus to Cesky Krumlov where I would stay for an entire month.
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| Charles Bridge, Prague. |
For now, all I will say about my two weeks in Cesky Krumlov
is that I am having an amazing time and I have never learnt more in two weeks than
on the Genomics workshop. I have met lots of really fun and clever people from
all over the world! Some have directly affected the way I will go about my PhD
and the knowledge I have gained will really put me on the right track during my
PhD. When I return home in just over two weeks I will go into a lot more detail
about the two workshops and my visit to Cesky Krumlov.
For the next two weeks I will be participating in the
Phylogenomics workshop which will probably be just as intense as the genomics
workshop, so I predict that you won’t get another blog post until I am settled back
home. Once I am home, I am back for just under two weeks and then I am jetting
off once again to Italy! This time I will be taking part in the Gordon seminar
and conference, which has now been organised. I hope you have enjoyed reading the
short little update and I look forward to seeing you in the next one!
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| A snowy Cesky Krumlov. |
