{"id":7249,"date":"2018-07-27T00:09:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T00:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=7249"},"modified":"2018-09-24T16:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T16:57:32","slug":"day-2-heat-and-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2018\/07\/27\/day-2-heat-and-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 2: Heat and Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again!<\/p>\n<p>The first day and official beginning of LIYSF 2018 was today and it was quite a bang to start us off with.<\/p>\n<p>It began with a delicious breakfast and an opening ceremony that was exciting and compelling. Also hot. The heat wave hasn&#8217;t discontinued and it got quite warm in my vest and dress pants. The price one must pay to look sharp&#8230; However, that didn&#8217;t take away from the introduction, as we got to see the multitudes of flags from participating countries, hear from the mayor of London, and finally meet as a whole, all students and staff. Wow, there are simply so many of us, and we are dangerously outnumbered by Australians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7758 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-2-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The ceremony wrapped up with a surprise vocal performance and a dance number that was sung beautifully and was a great booster of excitement.<\/p>\n<p>We followed up with lunch in Hyde park, under the blessed shade of some trees, and continued to meet new people and exchange our nationality&#8217;s stereotypes. Apparently Canadian money doubles as a scratch and sniff, producing the aroma of maple syrup. I&#8217;m afraid this poor soul was misinformed, but I can&#8217;t help but feel like that needs to be a thing. Now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7759\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-3-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-3-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>After lunch we had our first plenary lecture, delivered by teacher and chemical science demonstrator Dr Andrew Szydlo. It was quite a colorful lecture, with an explosive atmosphere! I mean literally. There were colors and explosions. His lecture was both enlightening and exciting, and wrapped up with a violin duet. You read that correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we assembled in a line to purchase our optional visits across England and the city of London, which I am already stoked for and you will hear details of in due time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7760 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-4-320x240.jpg 320w, https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/files\/2018\/07\/2-4.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Finally, the day closed with our welcome party, which featured a dance floor, a DJ, some big subwoofers, and a ton of of energetic people.<\/p>\n<p>Today was exhausting, but was nevertheless, a wonderful experience filled with muggy warmth and awesome music. Hence the title: Heat and Beat<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, thanks for reading and check in tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers and goodnight,<\/p>\n<p>Nikola T.<br \/>\nLIYSF 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello again! The first day and official beginning of LIYSF 2018 was today and it was quite a bang to start us off with. It began with a delicious breakfast and an opening ceremony that was exciting and compelling. Also hot. The heat wave hasn&#8217;t discontinued and it got quite warm in my vest and &#8230; <a title=\"Day 2: Heat and Beat\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2018\/07\/27\/day-2-heat-and-beat\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":7757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,114],"tags":[115,338,27,128],"class_list":["post-7249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-science-in-london","tag-liysf","tag-liysf2018","tag-london-international-youth-science-forum","tag-science-in-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7249"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7761,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7249\/revisions\/7761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}