Panorama -- looking out to Atlantic Ocean from the balcony.

Panorama -- looking out to Atlantic Ocean from the balcony.

I met Dr. Alan Harris and Robert Stephens at the airport, and Dr. Harris drove us to El Conquistador (the meeting place). There is much to see from the highway.

El Conquistador must be one of the best place I have ever been, I stay at a room which is faced to the Atlantic Ocean, with beautiful beaches, coconut trees and some remote islands to be seen from the balcony. I did not spend much time to walk up and down here but I'll do this in the following days.

The on-site registration opened at 3 p.m. and I completed it immeadiately, and eagerly hung up my poster at the Carribean ballroom. It appears I was the first to hang the contributed poster up. There some big-names around, like NASA or so, with their staffs busily hanging up their commercial poster -- or advertisement, on their research projects or products.

All right! The poster is up after traveled for more than 20,000 kilometers!

All right! The poster is up after traveled for more than 20,000 kilometers!

The Fajardo scenery and the meeting's atmosphere is great, it can't be better for me, and I can see those big-name scientists drifting around me, friendly and easy-going. However I'm feeling quite unease. Everybody speaks a speeding English which I must pay extra attention to understand and respond, all day long -- it could be exhausted for anyone. But the meeting is not yet began! What's more, even if I can get a quasi-infinite energy on processing those English, how to approach them? During the dinner time, the top scientists sorted into groups and speeding their English with lots of special words which I could barely identify, such as "2MASS", quasars, or galaxy redrifts. It's quite deflated.

Okay, even if I was indeed too confident about my English ability, now I have traveled across the globe and attend this top-class meeting, so I must work everything out. I'll listen to two sessions tomorrow -- Pluto and 2008 TC3, let's see what's over there. I should go for pre-study of these programs now.