Monday, September 11, 2006

A page from the notebook (first reflection)

Day 4 (Wed)

On way to Snowy Mountains now. Finally, some quiet, personal time to stone and reflect, and a day to slightly rest... Just saw some super black cows grazing on yellow-green grasses in front of continous range of blue-green mountains, out in chilly early spring. =) Outside temp's <10 deg man, I wonder if the cows are trembling as they munch.

It's been a good trip thus far, very fruitful in terms of work - discussions for student OUAP, teacher attachment, teacher masters prog all off to good start; the rest of team's also friendly & nice, even the Heads (unlike what I had expected - super-serious, no-nonsense men-in-charge); weather's a nice change (cold and sometimes frosty, just wished I've brought along thicker clothing & covered work shoes instead of open-toe ones); and a lot of food too.

So yeah, overall, halfway through trip, all's good and I'm pretty happy, just thought it'd be better if we could have more zzz every night. Hope remaining half of trip would be just as smooth.

Photos I:

One of the many sharing sessions at institutions


Some beautiful flowers at "Floriade" at Commonwealth Park - Canberra's annual celebration of spring featuring international floral displays


Me outside the National Capital Exhibition Centre


Some of us trying out the high ropes courses at Outward Bound, Australia


At the Deep Space Tracking Station - one of NASA's only 3 tracking facilities in the world

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