This is another I-am-still-living-the-life-of-three-people update. But I’m also enjoying it as much as three people together would, so it’s still great to be a teacher, a student, an ambassador and have a social life as well.
I’m all settled again at school and new classes are finding out about my ‘discovery fame’. A new girl remarked: “Hey aren’t you that lady of the space travel with the frog?” One of the boys in a second year group wants to do his shown-and-tell about my Voorwerp and another said we should make a computer game of the comic, with the green frog fog as last level. A 4th year group bombarded me with questions about the universe and I even already had to reassure one girl that the doomsday nutters are wrong about the end of the world. I was also asked again if I’m rich and why I still work as a teacher. (The answers are: ‘not a chance with this expensive course’ and ‘even if I had a lot of money, I’d still work here because I love it’).
Even though, or possibly because, it’s hard work. Next week I’ll have to take another exam myself too (on the things we learned on the island, ecology of the salty waters) and before the end of this calendar year I’ll have to finish the propaedeutic phase of the course. For this I’ll be writing a report on Alzheimer’s disease and then it’ll be Christmas before you know it! (Although us Dutchies will first celebrate Saint Nicholas of course). So yes the study is still a crazy amount of work too, but it’s also still interesting and fun. With this post I’ll add two pictures I recently took while looking through my microscope.
About the ambassador part of my life I can say that I will add updates soon on the recent astronomy events I did in Liège and Oostende, both in Belgium. And the social part of my life is not just taking place on twitter I’ll have you know. Practically having two fulltime jobs doesn’t mean you can’t still be spontaneous, so I decided again to actually seize days and I booked a trip, stay and ticket for the Born Free tour Brian is doing with Kerry in the UK two weeks from now! To me this is what ‘You Only Live Once’ means; don’t take it for granted, enjoy it!
Fern Antheridia, 400x (Hanny van Arkel).
Amoeba Proteus, 400x (Hanny van Arkel).