Exploring new horizons

Today is the day before the Day. Tomorrow I'll be leaving for Moletai Observatory, outside of Vilnius, Lithuania, for a week summer school on the topic "Observational stellar astrophysics". It will be a tough but incredibly educational experience, as well as interesting to meet new people of different nationalities. We will be doing observations using the three telescopes at the observatory , and hopefully also remotely two telescopes both at La Palma(Nordic Optical Telescope) and at Teide (IAC80). As I've heard there will be a lot of scheduled activites, both education and social. But as observations are done best at nighttime, I doubt I will have any good sleeping habits after this. With this I am unsure how often I might have the chance to logon to a computer and update the blog on the efforts. First priority is to have fun and make a good effort, next to that comes the bragging of how fun I have and how much I've learned!
After Moletai, I've only got one week left with my project for N. Ryde and then the new term starts. Not long ago I was elected to chairman of the ALVA association, with this comes some responsibility and we can come to attract at least some new students the next term. From the applications to the astronomy education I counted seven new students, we will be sure to do our best to catch them quickly and retain their interest of astronomy. And hope they will continue their studies in that path.
All in all, the future looks interesting and promising. At the master's programme we will hopefully have a few new students also along with the few of us who have managed it this far. So that means new interesting classes, new people and loads of fun hopefully! Let's keep our spirit's up, and aim for the stars! ;D