I'm back!

Right, it is time I start blogging again now that I have moved out to the Icelandic countryside, so am away from not only my Danish- and British-based friends but also my family and Icelandic friends. On my old blog written in Icelandic I gathered quite a following (huhuhu) but now I must switch to the more applicable English language, maybe also Danish once in a while.

This little piece is written at Frankfurt Airport, where I have six hours to kill until flying back to Iceland. I have been attending a workshop and conference on equine reproduction in Leipzig where I gave two talks as an invited speaker. Great worker I am, just started on Monday at the clinic in Hella and already Thursday I am away travelling. Not a good foreboding I guess but it is a long time until I am next off to somewhere so exotic.

Socially, the workshop was good, as we were only a handful of people, all staying in the guesthouse where the talks were held. I met my coming external examinor for the third time and it was all very relaxed and friendly. Even so that I had to clean chocolate from her face with my thumb! So I am hoping my viva (transl: PhD forsvar/doktorsvörn) will be a breeze. Another guy had co-authored a paper with a guy with the last name of Rass (Icelandic for bum, røv) and of course I had to grip the edge of my seat so as not to laugh out loud. How can you take this too seriously?! However, the conference part had many more participants, around 250 mostly German practitioners. I met a few Danish colleagues that I already know, even one from my class (Charlotte Måtte Jespersen!).

Anyway, when I fly in to Iceland today I will be straight off to my parents' to collect more of my stuff to transport eastwards to Hella and will be back to work tomorrow. We've been doing pregnancy scans, castrating stallions and vaccinating a lot of sheep (which I think will cover much of the menu tomorrow) as well as treating mastitis and ketosis in cows. Beside this we are planning the coming breeding season, to get in problem mares before the season start and also we'll hopefully be doing some embryo transfers.

Right, let's see where this goes!