International Internship

Day 3: 7-10-2019:

Today was the day my internship would start. But first I had some family breakfast and around 8.00 am. I brought my cousin to the daycare and my other cousin to school. It was quite a long ride, but I had a lot of fun with the cuties. They were really sad when I left them behind, because I wasn’t going to see them anymore this week. I was upset as well. After that part my uncle dropped me at the tunnelbana, there I would meet Daphne, the person who let this happen and I was following her in the lab this week. I met her there and we already started. She gave me a complete tour of the campus. It was enormous, however in between buildings there were nice parks. Eventually we went to the biochem and physics building. It is not really part of the university. Here people really work, this their job or this for their Phd. Some take Swedish classes, like Daphne, but many of them do not study anymore. Furthermore, where there some people older than the average student age. I quite liked the building and the people as well, on first impressions. We immediately started working in the lab. She gave me full tour of her work area. There are several supervisors and each supervisors has its own lab and in those lab work people. Daphne was part of Gunters lab, they were called Gvh. The lab really looked like a lab you see in movies, I didn’t expect this to happen, it was so cool to see. She introduced me to almost everyone working in the building. I noticed something, there were people from all over the world, Spain, Germany, Ghana, Canada, England, Armenian and more and more. It was so fun to see a work space with so many different cultures, I really enjoyed it. After that we started working, we did a experiment were we had to make food for the bacteria. The departure studies DNA and bacteria. We made food for the bacteria was really fun, she told me what to do and I actually was doing all the work which was nice to do. I had to wear a lab coat and gloves just like in a real lab you see on tv. We were busy for 1,5 to 2 hours. After that I was allowed to work in the office. Each department has several offices, they have two and I worked in one of them. Around 12.30 Daphne and I were ready for lunch many workers there were having lunch too, I socialized with workers from the same department to workers from other departments. We had lunch for at least 45 min. I worked for some ten minutes more in the office and then Daphne and I were ready for some more experiments. The experiment we had done in the morning we would be finishing now and we would make some new samples for the experiment for tomorrow. So we did that and around 15.45 we were done so I went home. I gave Daphne my presents and her moms as well, she was happy about it, it were all Dutch treats. We walked to the Tunnelbana together, however I had to go one my own there. It was a bit scary, maybe I would miss something or couldn’t find something, it was really crowded. But luckily, it was much easier than expected. I went from the first train to the second and at last waited for the bus. At the end of the station I got out and walked the last part home. No one was home yet, I did some work watched tv and later on warmed my food, it was rice with chicken. I watched expeditie robinson the whole time. In between I washed dishes and hanged the clothes from the washing machine. Around 21.45 Muhammad came home. It was a short notice, because at 22.00 I went to bed, I was tired. I really missed Laniya and Lawin : (