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The trip to Tokyo began with a mad dash for the two students attending, Muriel Aldunate and Candice Raeburn, as they rushed to the airport straight from their last exam. As iGEM began in USA and expanded to become an international competition, sometimes the dates and deadlines can be a little tricky for those not following the USA semester structure. Nonetheless the two students arrived at Narita thoroughly exhausted and excited to seek out their instructor, Dr. Leonard Pattenden, who had flown out the day before. After a couple of “detours” including purchasing the wrong tickets, cockroaches in inconvenient places and nearly being ran over, and with the help of a friendly convenience store clerk who left work to play navigator, the girls eventually found their way to their accommodation, forgot to take off their shoes, and slumped into bed to slumber the journey away in preparation for the iGEM 2009 Spring workshop. | The trip to Tokyo began with a mad dash for the two students attending, Muriel Aldunate and Candice Raeburn, as they rushed to the airport straight from their last exam. As iGEM began in USA and expanded to become an international competition, sometimes the dates and deadlines can be a little tricky for those not following the USA semester structure. Nonetheless the two students arrived at Narita thoroughly exhausted and excited to seek out their instructor, Dr. Leonard Pattenden, who had flown out the day before. After a couple of “detours” including purchasing the wrong tickets, cockroaches in inconvenient places and nearly being ran over, and with the help of a friendly convenience store clerk who left work to play navigator, the girls eventually found their way to their accommodation, forgot to take off their shoes, and slumped into bed to slumber the journey away in preparation for the iGEM 2009 Spring workshop. | ||
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| + | The next morning saw more disorientation as the group tried to navigate its way around the Tokyo. After walking past their destination and trying to make sense of a plethora of maps, a kind stranger pointed them in the right direction and they finally made it to the Takeda Building – or did they? In the knowledge they would probably get lost (and perhaps among mis-setting of watches) the group left so early they had arrived even before the iGEM organisers, wandering around the grounds until eventually some other lost-looking souls appeared with whom they could coalesce and talk about all things iGEM. | ||
Revision as of 07:42, 19 October 2009
The trip to Tokyo began with a mad dash for the two students attending, Muriel Aldunate and Candice Raeburn, as they rushed to the airport straight from their last exam. As iGEM began in USA and expanded to become an international competition, sometimes the dates and deadlines can be a little tricky for those not following the USA semester structure. Nonetheless the two students arrived at Narita thoroughly exhausted and excited to seek out their instructor, Dr. Leonard Pattenden, who had flown out the day before. After a couple of “detours” including purchasing the wrong tickets, cockroaches in inconvenient places and nearly being ran over, and with the help of a friendly convenience store clerk who left work to play navigator, the girls eventually found their way to their accommodation, forgot to take off their shoes, and slumped into bed to slumber the journey away in preparation for the iGEM 2009 Spring workshop.
The next morning saw more disorientation as the group tried to navigate its way around the Tokyo. After walking past their destination and trying to make sense of a plethora of maps, a kind stranger pointed them in the right direction and they finally made it to the Takeda Building – or did they? In the knowledge they would probably get lost (and perhaps among mis-setting of watches) the group left so early they had arrived even before the iGEM organisers, wandering around the grounds until eventually some other lost-looking souls appeared with whom they could coalesce and talk about all things iGEM.
