arigaa taikuu

we had our first lab meeting today, which is where i met the undergrads, grad students, and post-docs working on our lab's research over the next year...definitely some really interesting people.  one student, troels, is visiting from copenhagen, which is awesome [i definitely told him all about the segway tour that our family took this summer around copenhagen].

so i made brownies [of course], because that's what i do when i meet new people i'm working with...try to win them over with baked goods :)

i also left some extra brownies for my sweet roommates and the one from alaska, lynda, left me a little note saying "arigaa taikuu" which means "very good, thank you" in the inupiaq language.  very cool!  so, see, i'm learning all kinds of new things...including native alaskan inupiaq phrases...who would have thought?