So I've now been here at the Edward Percival University of Canterbury Field Station (what a mouthful) for a full two weeks and I'm loving it! I actually get paid to wander through the bush everyday and watch birds. Dream job.Over the last two weeks I've learnt to catch and band birds, and extract their preen waxes for lab analyses and experiments, and Jim (supervisor) will be returning at the end of the week to teach us 'mist netting' as another way to catch birds.
The work is going relatively well so far, although it's proving to be much more challenging than I first anticipated. This being said, I still haven't even started the main experiments yet!
In other news, Goose is currently starting his first day at a new job! He was offered this job in Auckland for a company called 'At Height', who are contracted out to clean or maintain tall buildings. He drove to Kaikoura on Thursday, stayed the night and came out into the field with me the next
morning. We then had lunch, napped and he left for Picton that afternoon. It was amazing to see him as I miss him heaps. Hopefully though, this means I'll be moving back up north after the scholarship is over and will get to be a whole lot closer to my family again (and all the fruit that stunning island has falling off it's trees!!).
For now though, I'm just trying to concentrate on this work. That's not being made easy by the absolutely shit forecast (for a whole week) here though!
I'm super anxious about results too (4 days away) and then excited to be able to go back to Christchurch (never thought I'd say that ...) and see my parents and graduate! Yay! After that, it's only a week or two until xmas, and probably the end of my work here, and Goose will be back for a whole 3 weeks!! Cannot wait to hang out with my man again ... properly!
So to conclude: rain go away, results be good, graduation be sunny and christmas be amazing.
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