Lessons

Another not so ordinary week. Several days waking up very early, be it for pleasure, to go jogging, or to go to talks, and several car trips. Maybe that is the reason I have not updated the blog too much; or maybe not.

The TIARA Winter School on Star Formation in Hsinchu started on Thursday. I went there on Thursday —comfortably, because I got a ride from the NTNU students—, with the intention to greet some people I know, specially a student from Barcelona who will stay in Taiwan for six weeks more, and to see how the talks were. You know how that is, general topics I have read many papers about or I have heard about in many talks, and I was not expecting too much.

I was so wrong!. In fact, I went back again on Friday. The talks may not provide me with many new things, but they were very educational, enjoyable even in subjects traditionally difficult, were always good to remember things I am beginning to forget or to learn something new, and particularly to get a new point of view on matters you might think you know about. I even got a couple of ideas to try in my present work. Not bad at all, then.