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Today my class 9 and me were the guests of the Department for Molecular Biomedical Research at the University of Gent (B). We were invited to join them for a day of science via the initiative Scientist @ Work (www.scientistsatwork.be/team/abs-class-9?project=8673). We have spent the whole day working in their amazing lab and we had Christine and Annelies guiding us through a whole series of steps to look at how aspirin is working on cell level. Every student was so keen and interested, they made me very proud as their teacher!

Here you can see 2 of my students working on one of the final steps, trying to get the glass slide with the prepared cells out of the well and then onto another glass plate so we could view the cells under the confocal & fluorescent microscope.

All in all an amazing day, so a thank you to the department for having us around for a day, a huge thank you to Christine and Annelies who guided us so professionally!

On a glorious winter's day, I finally had some time to go into town and buy a new warm cardigan, my old one literally fell apart... I also got myself a hat as cycling the girls to school at minus 9 and 5 Bft winds seem to freeze my ears!

Wednesday afternoon schools in Belgium are out. So there is a whole array of activities to be done for the kids on those afternoons. Ever since the girls were in in class 1 they've gone to art school and they love it!

Not that there fell a lot of snow, but it is the first time it actually it looked a little white this morning. Finally the crazy long month of January comes to an end...

Today it felt like it didn't get light. All day there was a thick cloud cover. It felt like it would start to snow any moment. Unfortunately for some of my students who have never seen snow there were only a few snows grits (in between snow and hail) falling down... This is the view from the science lab at 4.30 pm.