The Sixth Day

This morning was the first time that I hit snooze in China. I woke very rested with 8 and 1/2 hours of sleep. I worked out with jump roping other exercises. Me Madre called me and I talked to her. It is always nice to see family; the video was working today. Thinking about America one thing that I really miss is crusty bread, all of the bread here seems to be sweet bread. I have yet to find a crusty savory loaf but am looking for one always. If I wanted to bake one I would not be able to as there are no ovens available for use by me.
I am about to head to breakfast with Ben. I will be sure to inform y'all about it.

The breakfast was good. We went to this kinda sketchy steamed bun and fried dough hole in the wall type of place out side of the north gate. I had 3 leek and meat(?) steamed buns and a hard boiled egg. They hard boil the eggs in tea, it is supposed to give the egg flavor but I tasted no difference. I may do a taste test.  After talking to eating and talking to Ben we walked back to the dorm. He said that the apartment district thing that I walked through yesterday costs about 50,000 yuan per square meter. At 6 Yuan to the dollar that is really expensive.
I went into work at about 810 and waited for people. they came and then we went to a lecture/meeting, 3 of the speakers spoke in Chinese, one spoke all English (she was from Argentina) and another spoke in a mix of English, Chinese. I learned about Argentinean soybean production, and about Epigenetics. from the two that I could understand. After this we went back to the lab and then to lunch. I had more tofu, meat and vegetable stir fry with rice and broccoli.
 it is not in a mirror

this is how they sell cinnamon 

breakfast

inside of bun

there was a tomato under the table at the lecture 

the second blue sky since arrival, this one is much better

lunch more of the fungus that is good

The air Quality is very good today. Hopefully it will carry into tomorrow and we will have good weather for the Olympic park. Right now the AQI is in the green range. I may go for a run this evening if it keeps up but I do not know.

Work this afternoon was more interesting but still not exactly the caliber that I am hoping for. I helped one of the aids make samples ready for electrophoresis. We made the gels, and then prepared primers for the samples then put the samples in the gel to run them. When the aid was pulling out one of the dividers in the gel she tore the gel and so we had to make more gels. Pimpan was taking seed from Arabidopsis to get seed for testing. Mister Chi brought in a watermelon and we all ate watermelon. I need to get a watermelon; the one the Mister Chi brought was good. 

I found out that the milk is pasteurized this morning and that different companies use different symbols to indicate that the milk is pasteurized. I also learned that Pimpan does not like cockroaches, she saw one on the wall and went crazy trying to kill it. 

 Water melon in the lab

For dinner I had a very good crunchy pear and nuts, to wash it down milk in a package. 

This concludes the Sixth Day