Patrick Lam

Thoughts and travels of Patrick Lam

August: Europe, Canada, then back to New Zealand despite an Air Canada strike

Grenoble, Montreal, Beaver Valley, stuck in Ontario, and then Auckland. Master’s graduates +1. Lots of service and volunteering.

July: more travels and some scholarly outputs

Mount Olympus (Greece), the Tour du Mont Blanc, and a VSTTE submission.

June: more travels and some scholarly outputs

Trips to Gold Coast and mostly Seoul (also Shanghai and Narita); submitted a paper.

May: exams and travels

First month of Spring term; off to Montreal, Estonia, Calgary, and New Zealand!

April: exams and travels

Still had exams to give but was able to start moving on with my life this month.

March: last bit of the term (a doozy)

I guess it’s accumulated work catching up with me towards the end of the term, such that, despite having no trips longer than a weekend, free time was at a premium.

February: still teaching three courses, plus a hiking trip to Japan

OK, this month had a trip to Japan. Aside from that, I got to Toronto once, and to Kingston just at the end of the month. February is a short month, though.

January: a month of teaching three courses, and two trips

Well, that was a whole month. Arrived in Canada on January 6. Teaching ECE 459×2 and SE 465, and had two weekend trips the next two weekends. A bit less busy now.

December: Last month of sabbatical and two trips

Back on the move, with a trip to the South Island and a trip to the Pacific Islands (French Polynesia), before returning to Canada to teach in the Winter 2025 semester.

November: almost all in Wellington

In a contrast from October, all but the last two days in Wellington.