This is the first post to this new blog so I might start by introducing myself. My name is Andrew Fielding, I live in Brisbane, Australia and I've been here since 2004. I work at Queensland University of Technology where I am a lecturer in Physics. My main area of interest for teaching and research is in medical physics. I should at this stage point out though that everything in this blog will be my own personal thoughts and views - that's the disclaimer over with.

So what's this blog all about? That's a very good question and I am not really sure where it will go or how frequently I will post. The motivation is an adventure I am about to embark on and I thought it might be worth documenting, firstly for my own benefit and also there might be one or two people out there in this small world we live in who also might find it vaguely interesting. So what's the adventure? On February 27th I am going to leaving Brisbane to go work and live in Santiago, Chile for five months. This hopefully explains the title of this blog which amazingly Google tells me no one else seems to have claimed. I have been visiting Chile quite frequently over the last few years, building some collaborations with some fellow medical physicists, Beatriz Sanchez-Nieto and Paola Caprile, at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile (PUC for short) in Santiago. They have been developing a Masters in Medical Physics course and I am the co-ordinator of the QUT Masters in Medical Physics course. The new course will start in March 2012 and I am going to be teaching a course on Radiotherapy Equipment in the first semester. I am also currently developing a research grant proposal that will include them so hopefully we will find some time to start working on that. I also enjoy travelling and experiencing how other countries and cultures are both different and also very similar at the same time. So that's basically the motivation and I hope to post on anything that occurs to me over the next few months so that could include science, politics, music, religion, wine and food (by no means an exclusive list)

Andrew