Dear friends, Bird ringing season is over for this year, so I finally got time to write up some of my life in the past few months here. After the last day out in the field I slept for something like 16 hours straight but now I am sufficiently recovered to take on the rest of the semester (which isn't much fortunately!). I'm still doing fine, I am slowly finding out where to get real food, I have met some people that do not think that the US is the standard for...

Dear Friends, I've been here for two weeks now and I am still organizing some absolutely necessary stuff: bank account, bike (bought one on Friday and it was stolen yesterday so have to get a new one again!), a store where I can get non-GM food (vegetables). But the most important things are sorted out by now: I have got a room in a flat that I share with a very nice Philippinean couple (he's doing a PhD in economics at University of Miami and she is looking for...