Yesterday....After some delay, Meagan turned up at around 4.30pm. She was glad to see me as well, since she had been roaming around for 15mins trying to find the place! We managed to get into the building and met the rest of the students staying here. It was a very mixed group with students from Argentina, Israel, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. There are a total of 20 students attending the workshop, but only 9 of us are staying here at SIMS. The rest of the people are locals, thus they drive here everyday. The gang - Simon (Argentina), Adi (Israel), Gadit (Israel), Emily (Australia), Meagan (Australia), Jessica (New Zealand), Zarina (Singapore), David (New Zealand), and me.
The first day was introduction to the CMB center, and an overview of the course. There was also a short review to the art of microscopy. A lot of students in this workshop are microbiologist, so the microscopy session was quite a breeze. After lunch, we got a short tour of the facilities in SIMS. BTW, lunch was great - not the usual sandwich lunch which you get at a lot of conferences and workshops. The lunch consists of nicely-done-unique-sandwich, pie, veg rolls, and even a salad. The evening ends with a welcome reception. It was great to take the opportunity to know others who were not staying with us.
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