Last night we went for a quick walk in Sydney city. We went to the Sydney Harbor, the "Rocks". Didn't really stop anyway, but just walk! I did not enjoy it as much because it is always difficult to do anything when there are 9 people, all have different agendas... and all wanting to go different directions! Anyway, I decided I will be coming back to the city on the weekend to do some shopping for my lovely wife :)
We came back home around 12am, and I have to pay dearly for it by struggling through the morning lectures. I have to drink 4 cups of coffee to keep myself awake. It doesn't help as well that we are working on metagenomics softwares. Today we have Torsten Thomas as our lecturer and tutor.. very knowledgeable and a very good presenter! The software we learnt today are - Mothur, FastQC, SOAP, Tetra. It is a lot of information to digest in a single day! I guess this is what the workshop is about - a brief introduction to the type of tools available for us to use in our research.
Nothing too exciting in the evening as I have to work on my manuscript while the rest of the students went to the beach. Well, I hate sand in between my toes anyway :)
P.S. Photos coming soon... I promise
You're the first, and only, marine biologist who I have heard say that they dislike sand between their toes!
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