So, good news ... I found an apartment on Sunday! I had to make a special trip into the city just to view it which seemed a bit of an effort but it was worth it. The apartment is half way down St Kilda Road and overlooks Albert Park and Port Philip Bay, so Nan if you get on a cruise out here I'll be able to watch you sail in to Melbourne!!! I love the location of it because it is a 10 minute tram to the city and also close to the beach, which will be perfect for summer! It isn't too far to work either, about 45 minutes door to door which is a lot better than the hour and a half which I am currently doing. I'll be sharing the apartment with two other girls, Jess and Jasmine who both seem really lovely and friendly and people that I will get on well with throughout the year and enjoy living with. When I move in (on Sunday) I will take some pictures and put them on here for you to see, but just from the outside you can tell it is pretty nice!
I've been working again all this week and really enjoying it. I have been getting stuck in a lot more and becoming more involved in the labs with training and testing. On Wednesday and Friday I ran some training sessions on my own for James' study, which involved putting a couple of guys through wingate training (30 second maximal sprints at a load), followed by an ice bath. I also watched my first muscle biopsy on Thursday. For those of you that don't know this is an invasive procedure which involves taking some of the muscle fibres from the leg so that they can be analysed to provide information about their metabolic state and adaptions to training. The muscle biopsy I watched was the participant's third biopsy trial of the day (from the same muscle) and it looked pretty painful and gruesome - probably not the best one to watch for my first time! I think it looks worse though than what it necessarily is, because the needle that goes in is pretty big and wide and I just thought of it like sticking a big nail into your leg! Not sure I will be in a hurry to volunteer for one of those!!! This afternoon (being Friday), we had our weekly ISEAL seminar followed by drinks. Today one of the well respected and valued members of ISEAL, Alfonso Jimenez, was leaving so he gave an hour long speech about the development of sport and exercise science research, careers and academia, which was followed by a farewell in the bar, with food and bar tab!!!
This evening Sue invited her friend Sara (aged 23) over for dinner, wine and a girly night, which was really nice. We had a Thai take away and worked our way through 2 bottles of wine and skinnygirl cosmo. It was a really lovely, chilled out evening and I introduced strawpedo to them, which they had never heard before and found it hilarious (for those that don't know ... when you have a straw in a bottled drink like a wkd/smirnoff ice and you fold it over the top of the bottle to allow the air out and then down the drink). Sara then wanted to see it in action and got me and Han do it with a vodka cruiser. Han had a good attempt but there is a lot of room for improvement but she recons she'll get better and beat me soon! I'm sure for now she will be taking that trick to her next party and getting her friends to do it!!!
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