I've been in Cape Town for a week and a half now, and I've already started to take some things for granted (cheese! grapes! shrimp! craft beer! have all been reduced from 2 exclamation point items to 1 exclamation point items), but it's still too beautiful to fully take for granted. It has been described as "the least African city in Africa" and in my limited experience, that is definitely accurate.
I've been at the first annual summit of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine which has been really fascinating because it brought together a lot of the people I've been working with in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Mozambique over the past year and allowed me to learn a lot more about labs than the beginnings I've gotten from learning on the job. I'm generally anti-conference -- I think they can be a major waste of time and take people away from real work -- but I've had more productive meetings this week than I would have in a typical month, so that's been great. We were at the conference center from 8am to 9pm most days this week, but I also got to see penguins AND a Lady Gaga concert in the past week, so I am feeling pretty lucky and grateful to be here both for work and for fun reasons.
More photos - and hopefully will take more this weekend before I head to Zambia on Sunday.
With my manager and the scientist on my team before the Lady Gaga concert - we have all looked better...
Great hike overlooking the city
Beach on the peninsula
I've been at the first annual summit of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine which has been really fascinating because it brought together a lot of the people I've been working with in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Mozambique over the past year and allowed me to learn a lot more about labs than the beginnings I've gotten from learning on the job. I'm generally anti-conference -- I think they can be a major waste of time and take people away from real work -- but I've had more productive meetings this week than I would have in a typical month, so that's been great. We were at the conference center from 8am to 9pm most days this week, but I also got to see penguins AND a Lady Gaga concert in the past week, so I am feeling pretty lucky and grateful to be here both for work and for fun reasons.
More photos - and hopefully will take more this weekend before I head to Zambia on Sunday.
With my manager and the scientist on my team before the Lady Gaga concert - we have all looked better...
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