• Question: what's the strangest experience you have ever had

    Asked by Nell to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 17 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Lidunka Vocadlo

      Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 17 Jun 2015:

      @579frcc29 I was the only woman invited to a conference and they gave us a traditional dinner, sitting on the floor. I was there, the only woman, in a floor full of about 50 men. About half way through I looked up to see they had all got up and disappeared to the side of the room leaving me alone in the middle of the floor. Very very odd!!!!

    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 19 Jun 2015:

      It was a good kind of strange, but I was with friends in Japan at a traditional soba restaurant, and the woman who owned the place found out I was an astronomer, and got very excited, and came back with a print of a painting of a dragon that she had been given by the artist. She had put gold leaf on it herself before giving it to me, and said she was really glad that I had come, and that she thought I had been brought to the restaurant so that I could have the painting. It was a really humbling experience, and very unexpected. I mean to frame the picture and put it on my wall as a reminder. It’s kept safe in a folder for now.

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