I finished my thesis. But you know that already. Turned it in on June 1st. Had beers with Roweena, Phil, Ashley, Dries and Josh (the last three only there for sympathy reasons, they are still working on their theses). A wet night that ended with us drinking cloudberry liquor and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer lying in piles on the couches and a mattress on my living room floor.
Wednesday was the SRC spring party, flower power themed, arranged by the first years to celebrate us who were graduating. The sparkling wine did not run dry. I ended up sleeping in Ashley’s bed for about six hours (because she lives so much closer to uni than I do), after which she made me pancakes and coffee, and put me on a bus back to uni, where I did the last preparations for my presentation, and then. I presented. And despite lack of sleep/a slight hangover, or maybe precisely because of that, the presentation went well, I didn’t feel stressed at all, and I could answer all the questions that I got. Mostly, I was amazed at the attendance – almost every person in the class came, despite it being at 11 in the morning and some people, I was told, didn’t leave the party until 4. All that supportive energy must have had an impact too. I’ve had such an amazing master’s class.
So I graduated. And after a brief lunch, we had the first official project meeting with the Targeting Agricultural Innovations in the Volta Basin team. And I was off on my first day of working as a research assistant.
There was a celebratory dinner with dad that same night, and then a sunny brännboll game with a mixture of geoscience people the day after, and then, early on Sunday morning, I was off to Burkina Faso again.
Katja Malmborg 