Summer Schooling

I've been attending summer school all week. I've had classes on crystallography, surprisingly, from eight to twelve (or in reality more like one) every day this week. We didn't really have any breaks in between and I missed my morning coffee on most days and I was starving by the time I got to eat. Then after lunch I continued the exercises on most days. So I've been busy. It was kind of a hard week also because I've had to get up earlier than usual in the morning. But I've learned a great deal and I've loved solving the problems the teachers gave us to do. It's like I've gotten to do my favorite work activity all week and I'm now better at doing it. Excellent.

We had this sort of test today where we had to solve this one structure that had a few problems. Everyone else worked in pairs but I was somehow left without a pair to do the problems with all week so I worked alone. The fun part was that I think I got really lucky and I was most likely the first the solve the problem. I was wondering what the other people were having problems with since I thought it was easy. The magic was that I'd chosen the right atoms to try the structure with and had I chosen the wrong ones it would not have solved correctly. Lucky me. So I was done and hour before most people and had time to have my morning coffee today. Plus I felt really accomplished having solved the problem so fast. It seems I've chosen the right job for myself.

I've been going to some of the social activities of the summer school and that has also been fun. Yesterday I was on a cruise on the lake Päijänne. I had never been so it was really nice. One of my friends was there for company so that was great and we even met some other fun people. Luckily the weather was also good for the cruise. It was sunny almost the whole time with no rain. The weather has been very unpredictable and rainy all week and it's looking like there is no end to it. But the weekend is here and I plan to enjoy it. Right now I think I'll head home and clean my aquariums.