The first week in the lab was amazing!
There's two postdocs: Lucia and Lisa
grad students: Jerrad, Wendell, two Sarahs, Naxeily, and I think that's it....
A guy named Andy (I think he's a postdoc but he may just be a faculty member, i'm not sure)
and the Undergrads: Savina, James, Abbie, and I!
Jerrad took me under his wing for most of the first week because Lucia was still in Spain and I finished most of my work by about 1 or 2.
Didn't do much during the days after work except read/work out/ watch things on my laptop.
Then came the weekend.
First was Friday night, we were partying up in Carmelita's room and we played circle of death and salsa danced... I met Matt, Shantelle, Brenden, Tanya, Vikki, and Crist.... I had already met Nelson and Jess my first night here.
I went wandering around with Brenden after we finished playing circle of death... Danced salsa and tango with matt and some of the other guys
Saturday morning we got up and went to Buffalo Bill's wild wings which is in Rice Village... It was me, Sylvia, Anita, and Dre. On the way there it started POURING rain, so we jumped in a car that was being driven by a guy that andre knew.
We got food and then a bunch more people showed up to watch the Spain vs. Paraguay world cup game, which was amazing (spain won 1-0)
We all piled in Matt's car to get back; there were five of us in the backseat and I was squished up on top of all the guys hahaha
Saturday night.... We started partying up in Sylvia's room after going on an errand run but it took forever and we couldn't find anywhere to buy stuff, so we started partying around 10 or 11. I was drinking buddies with Crist and we left with Matt and Carla partway through to get more stuff but that part was confusing; I don't know the area very well yet
When we got back the party had moved up to Ross and Dom's room so the music was really loud. We cleared out the bedroom to make a dance floor and went crazy... then the cops rolled up and we had to quiet down and clear out. Dre and I walked Anita down cause she wasn't feeling too hot. Once we got her taken care of we went back up to Dre's room and chilled out for a while. Everyone else left except me and Ross, then Andre came back so Ross and I sat outside till about 6 am.
Sylvia called me at 8 the next morning cause she'd been locked out of her room, then I slept till 12 till Matt called me because he'd disappeared before the cops came the night before.
We were all moving really slowly and went to the 59 diner for a late lunch/breakfast then just chilled out and watched movies until we went to Arindam's for a 4th of July party which was awesome once the dance floor formed.
Today was my first day with Lucia there; I also met Dr. Bartel!! I was tired as hell so I only absorbed some of the information, but Lucia is amazing and Dr. Bartel is just plain awesome.
I just got back from going to Smoothie King and Sonic with Matt, Anita, and Sylvia which was fun...
This summer got started really fast and crazy lol. I can't believe I've only been here a week; it feels so much longer.
I'm going to miss everyone here so much when they leave halfway through my time here.
The weather has actually been kind of nice. That, or I'm just getting used to the heat.
Oh, except that we got the tail end of a hurricane last week. That was interesting.
So far, it looks like everything really is bigger in Texas.
