Not a perfect seminar

During three days a group of Japanese researchers as well as some German researchers, are visiting Umeå. The days have been filled with seminars, to inform each others about our ongoing research, maybe we can create even more promising collaboration in the future. It's hard to have energy to listen all the days, when you are not used to it.
Thursday afternoon Maria had a twenty minute presentation of some of her work. Which meant she stayed late at work Wednesday afternoon to do the last changes. Except that the pointer stopped working, and the whole presentation freezed for some long seconds (with success she stayed cool, on the outside), Maria passed the presentation at least. As usual, afterwards you find out how you could have made it better.
In the evening she joined the tour of our facilities for the guest, anyway she hasn't been in the lab too long, so especially the plant growing facilities are still new to her. Growing trees is somehow different from growing smaller flowers, take longer time as well. Thereafter followed a dinner of nice dishes with local taste.