Post #170: Fourier transform and reciprocal lattices

It's lunch time. I've got half an hour to write a bit of how it's been going...

The food has been good and there has been enough of it and the company has been fun too. We don't really have "any" free time but it's OK really. I'm hanging out loads with my Russian roommate whom I met at the hotel as I got there. The lady at reception told me she was my roommate and I was like "OK, thanks". I went to talk to her and asked if she wanted to go see the city with me after we got our room and that's what we ended up doing. We saw the center and then also decided to go see the zoo. All in all it was really nice to have company for the tourist thing. I mean I got totally lucky again. She just happened to be there at the hotel at the same time as me.

So the actual school is going quite nicely too. I am having problems understanding all the things but luckily I'm not the only one. Since people complained about not getting things yesterday at our last discussion, one of the teachers decided to have like an extra class at the hotel after dinner. It was sort of weird going to learn like math at nine in the evening but of course I wen t since I want to understand. Attendance was not required of course. But finally last night I think I understood something. The teacher started speaking the same language so to say. I've been getting really frustrated with these exercises we've been getting since they just give us a question and want us to solve it but don't tell us what to do. And if I don't know what to do, I don't do anything. And we don't even have proper examples before the exercises so it's really impossible to know what to do and I want to know why I do something. But yeah, maybe it will get better now that I know I'm not the only one and the teachers know that they are sort of just asking questions we don't understand.

Now we're getting a bit away from the math into more practical things and it's great to finally know what I'm doing. See I've done the practical. Not totally from start to finish in a way I really understand the steps but that's what I'm here to do. So it should all work out just great.

Oh, I've gotten people to go with me Saturday at lunch to the Street Parade. I also know where the climbing center is and how to get there. I may just not have any time. And the funny thing is that they apparently have like automatic ropes for the easier walls.