Monday. I got up at 730 had a banana, yogurt and milk for breakfast before heading to work at 800. At work this morning I napped for an hour before we got some stuff ready for autoclaving, then watered the plants and stuff. Leo was back for the first time in a while and he leaves for good this Friday. Faith was in the lab with us. We filtered out some fungus to extract DNA from and talked about the tobacco plants. It seems that Yulan has two different experiments going on right now. She has tobacco that is transgenic for one part and then the knockout vector is another part of the experiment though it is for a different part. Lunch was good - they served my favorite foods.
After the lunch I headed back where I ground samples and and extracted DNA. This was done by: filtering first then grinding in liquid nitrogen. After this, a kit was used to get the DNA out of it. It was Leo's birthday today. He turns 22 and went out to eat with his family tonight. He got back from his grandparents home today. He does not like it there very much as there is no internet, and Leo has to have his LoL to play. We were talking today about random games. They have some weird stuff that they play, they lable stuff and then have another person finish off the label. It is weird. that is about all you need to know. I looked at some of the words on the GRE thing that Faith is studying and talked to her about spelling words and stuff. She thinks that writing in Chinese is easier then writing in English. I told her that writing in English is probably on the whole easier. How does one sound out a Chinese character?
This Friday is a lunch or dinner or something for Leo's going away, and it may be a joint one for me as well. Yulan decided to go to Frisbee with me tonight; Faith had to go to see her grandma, she is getting better Faith said, so she did not come. After we finished the DNA extraction I left to go get some frisbee stuff and change clothes. And so did Yulan. I told her to meet me at the north gate at 540. I accidentally left my passport and key to my room in the lab so I had to make my way back to collect that. I stopped by Silvio's room to ask if he wanted to come to Frisbee and saw what he was up to. He decided to come.There was another African, Albert, who just got back from the farm who talked to us as well. He thought about coming but decided that he should get a good nights sleep for the first time since Friday. Albert is the one that wants to talk with me about graduate schools in the USA.
I met the peeps downstairs and we headed to Renmin. On the way there Silvio and I were talking and Yulan was very surprised at the speed at which we talked. We told her about Portuguese and Spanish and some words that sound like bad words in Chinese, but are in fact,words like "grape" in Chinese. We got to the fields and started throwing the Frisbee. Yulan liked it, I think, though it was not a good day for me in terms of catching. The wind was crazy and blew the Frisbee every which way. A Kazakhstan person came and play with us. Hopefully he will come play again. He says that he swims every now and then.
We talked about how old Silvio is. He is about 26 and he is on his first year of a masters. When Yulan asked if he was a masters students she asked, "Are you a master?" which was very funny. Silvio likes The Lord of the Rings and so I impressed him with my Gollum imitation. Silvio is actually engaged to someone back in his home which surprised me as he still has another year at least to go here.
After throwing the frisbee for an hour or so we headed out. I was hungry and Silvio had to go see a friend off. He got onto the subway and Yulan and I went and had dinner. We went to the sesh wan place and had peanuts and soybeans along with meat on skewers. It was pretty good stuff. I think that I will go there tomorrow but we will see. If I go somewhere with Faith tomorrow I will have to see if Silvio wants to come with me.
I headed back, stopped and did a few pull ups and saw Wendy doing his martial arts stuff and waved.
Because I was singing all day, they want me to go to a karaoke night at one of the places. I may go; it would be fun.
I have got to work on the paper some more - I am up to 636 words.
Today many times I was told that I had a strong body. Yulan told me it, then almost every girl in the lab. While throwing the frisbee, an old guy walked up to me and told me in Chinese (Yulan translated), "you have a strong body". I guess that it is just something that they say and that they appreciate physical fitness.
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