A Blog Entry

I have been meaning to write a "long" post about my stay in Santa Fe... but it has just remained as a good intention... In the meantime, here's an excerpt from an entry I wrote on our blog page. This is just about the CSSS oomph.

I can't believe that we only have a day of lecture left in our schedule and three days left before we go toodle-ooing. Time just went by so swiftly! It seems like it's only yesterday when I was solitary and having my first dinner at the coffee shop when Lucas came up to me and introduced himself and invited me over to their table (he was with Felix and Florian). :-) I never thought that I'd be very much enjoying my stay here. Yes, I expected to learn a lot from the summer school; but no, I didn't really imagine myself to have this much fun (since the invitation letter said "intensive training"). I have to admit that at the start I was so intimidated by the summer school (the topics, the lecturers and my co-participants); it's my first time to leave my country so everything was just so overwhelming. But much to my surprise, everyone was just so nice, friendly, understanding and very accommodating!

Needless to say, I have learned a great deal from a wide range of stuff. It is such a privilege to be here studying complex systems science, coding numerical models, chatting, eating, hiking, dancing, shopping, doing laundry, whining, and well, getting drunk, with the smartest people I've ever met