marinegirl

I saw parrots today! Real I’ve-just-escaped-from-the-zoo, green and red and blue and yellow parrots! And they were flying around in the tree just outside my office. All the other birds seem rubbish now… except for the little fat ones with long curvy beaks that hop around. I still like those (as you can see my zoological knowledge is flourishing).I’m beginning to find my way around campus now, without even looking at the map! I was given a tour of the marine biology department today and have been allocated work space in room 007 (theres a really good Bond joke in there somewhere but I haven’t quite worked out what it is yet). I’m sharing with a couple of other postgrad girls, but I haven’t met them yet as they’re both in the field. The department looks a lot like Sheffield - I guess universities are the same everywhere. Except there are ‘Emergency Showers’ in all of the corridors… which just seem to be inviting trouble!I’ve had a couple of meetings with my supervisor, Garry, to try and decide what I’m going to do for my project. We’re still not exactly sure… but it’s looking like something to do with the implementation of marine reserves on the Great Barrier Reef and in the Philippines. Which I think should be pretty interesting. I also met the university dive officer today, to organise getting on the dive register so that I can help out a couple of other PhD students doing surveys in the Keppel islands (barrier reef a few hours south of here) in October. I can’t wait to get back in warm water again! Tomorrow I get to choose a work computer and get my personal account set up, so I can start buying stationary and decorating my office