Our whole department went for a retreat at the Seeon Monastery this Monday to Tuesday (26th and 27th November). A main purpose of the retreat is for the students and junior post-doctoral staff like me to give a presentation on our projects and keep our departmental head in touch of our progress. Giving a presentation itself was no job too difficult, but the biggest challenge by far was to pack my 3 projects and the introduction into just 15 minutes. On the other hand, it was probably no easy task for the departmental head, who had to sit through more than 30 talks and absorb them all! 本週一至週二（11月26至27日），實驗室全體前往Seeon修道院「避靜」（Retreat），凡是學生或像我這些年資淺的博士後研究員，都得準備為時15分鐘演講，好讓老總掌握各人工作的最新進展。演講本身不是難事，但要把引言及三個研究項目濃縮至15分鐘，倒是最考功夫之處。做老總的也不易，要一連聽取三十來篇匯報兼且吸收，委實需要些特異功能才行。 Even though we were at a retreat, we managed to engage ourselves in a couple of battles! On Monday evening, we did battle at the bowling lane - well, it wasn't exactly bowling, but rather a German variation of skittles called kegel.