The fifth week
This week was a bit annoying, because the first two days it was freezing and snowing so hard that by bike lock froze so I couldn’t get my key in it. I had to keep it in my hands to warm it up and hit something hard to finnaly get it to unlock. Luckily the rest of the week my lock wasn’t frozen anymore. Because it froze so hard I had to be careful when riding my bike to not fall. On monday, I started genotyping the zebrafish and I thought it was going good till I got the results back the next day. A lot of the samples were to faint to see on the agarose gel so I had to repeat the whole proces with the hopes that it would be better. So after I did the whole thing again the results were even worse than the first time. While doing all this I also learned how to execute another lab technique that I will be using in the future.
After work in the evening I usually go for a little walk to try and clear my head, it does not always work. On one of these walks I came across this public sauna that I will have to visit in the future. since it has been freezing hard in the beginning of the week I felt comfterable enough to go for a walk on the frozen lake, it was a bad idea of me to do this late in the evening. The weird sounds I heard while walking on the lake were a little unnerving. I really wanted to get of it after about a quarter of an hour but I underestimated the distance to where I wanted to get back on the shores, this caused my short evening walk to change into an evening hike. Then on friday I stopped working 2 hours earlier than normal because my brother was comming to visit me, when he arived and got settled we went to get a cup of coffee for him and a cup of tea for me. on friday night we went to the Ice hockey game Tappara against the pelicans, unfortunately Tappara lost, after the match we got something to eat and went home to sleep because he only slept three hours the previous night. on saturday we got up and went for breakfast in a café, after that we walked around in the city centre and and went to the market hall to get something to eat for lunch. In the afternoon we went to a couple of museums that he wanted to visit, among these were a video game museum and an ice hockey museum. we spent a lot of time playing games in the video game museum because they had this arcade in it, my brother is really good with the pinball machine, he got the highscore but I beat him in pong. In the ice hockey museum they had this machine where you can test you accuracy and power in ice hockey. At night we went to a burger restaurant where we had smoked reindeer burgers, they were absolutlely delicious. Then we went home and watched something before going to sleep. On sunday we went for breakfast before he took the train back to Helsinki to go home. When family comes to visit you really understand how much you accually miss home.
What I want to tell you is that persinstance is key, when you keep trying to do something that is going wrong all the time like me with my experiments, it is very likely that you will find where it went wrong and you shall accomplish what you want. The other is appreciate the little things, like going for a walk, talk with some friends, stare at the stars, these are all thing that can keep you from thinking to much and overloading your brain.
