Scifest, Scifest, Scifest. Or Scifest Africa, as it is now called. You want a crash course in new media, go to Scifest.

Tracey, one of the girls in my class, and I are preparing an audio slideshow on patients with TB, writing an article on genetic modification, writing an article on using science and technology on solving waste problems in Grahamstown, and I’m probably doing an audiocast on whether or not science can prove or disprove the existence of god.

So this morning was spent at one of the TB clinics, taking photographs and interviewing people. We then sprinted off to a lecture being held by Professor Marc Zimmer to interview him and take photographs. Which is very intimidating, but there you go.

I’ve always been a bit uncomfortable with interviewing people – I find that the whole process is very invasive, and I don’t really enjoy stepping deeply into people’s private spaces. But taking photographs is somehow so much worse.

Yes you can hide behind the camera, but here it’s capturing – in immediate form – a moment of somebody’s life. It’s a very strange feeling, but I think I could get used to it.

So this week is topped by my 21st – and I can see indecent amounts of Red Bull being consumed by the end of this week.

Wish me luck – I’m going to need it. And yes, this is a short post. But yes, it’s going to be a very long week.