Days 13-19

Pondering: Thoughts During Passage of Time

So I’m riding the bus now to work a bit until Beate comes back from vacation. I did ride with a coworker, Miroslava, but she’s taking a couple days off. Bus riding isn’t that bad. The 120 buses, I ride, come pretty often, every ten minutes, and they have this cool thing called a busway here. It’s like an interstate, where you drive fast, but it’s only for buses, no cars allowed.

The other day in a bus, I saw a sign that said no spitting allowed. Offenders will be prosecuted and that bus operators are equipped with DNA testing kits. I just found this hilarious, to be able to spend so much time and money on testing for finding someone who spat in the bus.

Doing stuff in the lab is as fun as ever even though I feel like I make quite a few mistakes. Oh well, I’m learning and it’s all part of the process. It’s cool though to realize that you are understanding more and learning the steps to certain bioassays.

I’m beginning to feel at home here, with the left handed streets, it’s going to be bad trying to adjust back in the US especially since I’m supposed to drive back to school two days after I get home! That’s like asking for an accident.

The money here is part plastic. It feels smoother and is nearly impossible tear. It’s a great idea to lower the wear and tear that bills go through by doing this. The money is really colorful too! Gorgeous, I’ll try and post some pics of it sometime. The coins are confusing to me!