Wed 19 Apr 2006
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The Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (MSFHR) had a news conference today and invited all the winners of the 2006 competition to attend. They had a nice selection of fruits available to snack on in the waiting room while the speeches were played over the speakers, but mostly everyone just chatted while we waited for our big debut. I stuck around with Tiffany and Andrew from the Rankin lab. We tried a dragon fruit, which can be seen on the picture to the left. Tiffany and I tried it on the count of three, and it kind of tasted like a weakly flavoured kiwi, but was slimier, like a soft cantaloupe. I wouldn’t pay the $8 they want for them at Safeway, but at least we could try it for free :)
Our big debut came at the end of the speech, at which we entered the tiered classroom from above and from both sides, and we met an applause. That was about it. Then we left. Very odd indeed, but we did get free MSFHR travel mugs, LOL.
On the way to the bus with Andrew and Tiffany I found out that the BRC was training for a 10k run - I thought this was a great idea! While I won’t be fit enough to compete in the one in May, there is a 10k in July to raise funds for Prostate Cancer, so Lionel and I are going to start training for it :D