It all ends with wine and nibbles!
Even though Applied Ecology felt like a marathon right from the beginning, and the last two weeks were hellish, I loved it. That's also despite the fact that nearly half of the syllabus was what we had for Resource Management last year. It was engaging and different, in some ways, from the other modules. I reckon Dr Simon 'aphid-man' Leather and Tilly 'new-age lecturer' Collins did an awfully good job. The debate, for one, was something you wouldn't have expected for coursework (did I mention the debate before?) - a simulation of a Crown Court trial for anti-GM environmental activists. For a moment then I was Dr Lau, an expert in... something... called upon as an expert witness to defend the accused. :P Did pretty well in the essay for that too. That was fun while it lasted; our lawyers were champion!
Our practicals were more like social sessions - we'd surf random websites for photos and we'd chat, and Dr Leather'll come by and chip in too. His brother used to work in Hong Kong, he said, and he's been to Singapore before, a year before I was born. Changi Airport was the best! Stuff like that. Or how we should go do our research project in Silwood, where rich people leave their horses in the stables and we can ride and exercise them for free. 
I did my conference talk and poster on ecotourism and strategies for sustainability. A pretty broad coverage, but it's better than doing something on the over-popular panda conservation cases or African elephants. It's something I can relate to, too. The conference lasted two full days - with many talks and poster judging. This evening we had the wine and nibbles reception, and Dr Collins brought along her two children - the baby boy's six months old now! How fast he grows! (Looking back at a photo of Dr Collins when she took us on a field trip last year; that was when she was still expecting).Here's her little girl, looking at some cute animal on a poster. How adorable is she? -->
Well, course finale will be at London Zoo on Thursday. Looking forward to it. :)
Meanwhile I can rest some and pack some. Shall be homeward-bound come Fri.
3 Comments:
why is it that when foreigners hear the word singapore... the few things they can conjur up to say includes:
1) airport
2) very clean
3) very "green"
4) nice city
zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
hmm... then what else would u like to have on the list? not 'fine' right?
I think lunch down the pub with the MPMI dudes was much better than a poster club.
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