Blanca Ruiz tells his experience of the Scientific Summer breaks in Faro (Portugal):
One day in class the teacher said something in a scientific course .. . Truth does not pay much attention to the issue and was something that looked very out of my possibilities. Given time to deliver a short questionnaire, and I decided, therefore, what could you lose?
Fill the questionnaire and delivered on time only three girls. After that came another short questionnaire. This was already too complicated, especially the part "What era would you have liked to live and why." That question was like ... no .. the it read and you said .. I do not fuck! To see what I can put me here! Luckily I had always clear what situation I would have liked to live, but it was difficult to express. Because, see, the Edo Period (Japan) and is difficult to understand in itself, if you try to explain above why would you have liked to be there .... the truth that it took me home in escribirlo.En told me not excite me that it was very difficult to be scientific stay, they would very few. Supported me, but were not sure.
deliver the three questionnaires to the teacher and did not know anything about them until a month later, I mysteriously got to see the resolution of the call in ESCIVE website and found my name and my companion Minerva there ... What happiness god! Something that I thought would not go, that spending the summer in a lab doing something you love only happens on TV. Anyway, since my name was there, right? theoretically and go, or at least who whose that possibility. I thought I would not until he arrived on July 11, I prepared the case because 15 had to be in Faro (The Algarve, Portugal).
My project was called "In Search of the microscopic eggs of marine animals" and called me enough attention. I was super nervous at 6 had to be at the Inn, when I got there was Andreia, the coordinator, waiting. Arrived, greeted and told us about what to do.
When I got to the room accompanied by Jose (A grenade kid was going to do another project: "Gen X") and Catia (Portuguese girl, your project is called "Under My Skin"). I was so nervous I did not talk with almost anyone, but in seconds, since I'm so nervous, I could not shut up and started talking to Jose and Catia. Then came the other fellow Laura, Diego and Catarina would sleep that night all together. And there we were doing and understand in a super sophisticated language, including English-French-Portuguese-English
The first night we got the deck of cards, of course! And I started talking to everyone and break the ice a little because there were all too shy. We play cards, it was a mess because the deck was English, but not the same game in Galicia, Jerez, Cordoba, Granada, however as is the name. Laura then explained in English, a game they had played all but differently. Begin to deal cards face:
-Laura, Are not six cards?
"No, five.
"But to see what do we play?
The Portuguese side looked us have no idea what we talked about. That was a mess of just laughing as if possessed ... above all when Joseph tried to explain his game in English and released his "INDECENTRE." Anyway ...
The next day we taught the University and two other girls met Ruth and Susan, who also have projects there. We shared by laboratories and projects and I stayed with Susan and Catherine with the project "In Search of the microscopic eggs of marine animals" Laura was with Catia the project "Under my skin", Diego Ruth "fattening of reproduction: how to grow the fish? ". In my lab
behaved great with me, I did not know Portuguese So there were all from the head to the coordinators of the laboratory, making it the consistent understanding. My friends who were Portuguese also helped me a lot. It was a fantastic experience that I recommend to everyone. Not only for what you learn science, but by the things you bring these people with whom they live 15 days, are things you can not pick up otherwise. Also, do something you like and you will serve in the future like always. So if you have the opportunity not miss this opportunity.
If I could, I would return. The only bad science of the whole stay was the farewell .. I did not want to stop.
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