Hi Everyone, Time for another update.

I'm currently in the lab with a 20 minute break while my experiment runs so I thought I'd let you know what I've been up to the past few days. On Tuesday Fiona and I set off at 6pm on an epic journey back to London, We got the coach to New York, then the subway (really hot, dirty and full of weirdos) to JFK, then a 6 hour wait in the middle of the night for our flight at 7:30am. Once we made it back to Heathrow we then sat on the Picadilly line for an hour and a half until finally we got to Cockfosters and were picked up and given a lift back to RVC. We made it back at about 10pm UK time, so, that's a total journey time of 23 hours, during which I got very little sleep! On Thursday we had to give a presentation on our project and then have an oral exam to finish off our degree. In the end Fiona got a 2:1 and I got a First, the others on the course all got 2:1's or Firsts so everyone did really well!

After that we had a BBQ and got some well earned rest. Friday was also a restful day with a shopping trip to St. Albans and 10 pin bowling in the evening. On Saturday we flew back to New York (on separate planes this time) then coached it back to Ithaca, this time we made it in 20 hours, a distinct improvement! So, now I'm back at Cornell and I'll be staying here until the 10th August now so I should have a chance to settle in properly. I'll keep you all updated on any exciting times over the next few weeks. Hope you are all well!

Stephen xx