One of the many rats we had to handle
This week started with Kacy and me finishing the catheters. We had to make twenty more catheters. While we waited for the catheters to dry, we used a razor to clean the excess cement from the edges. Once we finished the catheters we helped Molly take inventory of the rats. That involved us going into the different rooms and writing who has the rats, how many rats there are, what gender they are, and what experiment they are being used for. Once the new rats came in, Kacy and I were put in charge of handling them. This is to make sure the rats get used to being held and moved around so they do not have issues later on. We had thirty-six rats for our experiment and twelve for another scientist. While we were handling them, we also labeled their tails and weighed them. Since there were so many rats to work with, it took us three hours per day and we worked for three days.
The US Olympic women and men’s rugby teams, a few track and field members, and three BMX riders
The view from the top of the hill near Pacific Beach.
On Sunday, the tenth, Kacy, Michelle, and I went to the Birch Aquarium with some people from Michelle’s lab at UCSD. I had a lot of fun while we were there. There was one lady from the lab that knew a lot about the animals that we saw and had interesting stories to go along with them. On Friday night Tom took the three of us and Sam to the Giants and Padres baseball game. While we were there, the Padres got three single home runs and one run. We left before the seventh inning started when the score was four-one with the Padres in the lead. After we left, neither of the teams scored so the Padres won. A lot of people were surprised at the outcome because the Padres had lost the previous nine games against the Giants. On Saturday, after Michelle left to go home, Lora and a few other people from her Rotary Club went to Mexico to go to a ceremony for people graduating from their program. Kacy and I got to go with them since we had our passports with us. While we were there we learned what the program is for. In Tijuana once students reach a certain grade their education is no longer free and many families cannot afford to keep their children in school. The La Jolla Rotary Club and Tijuana Rotary work together to help keep the children in school by paying a stipend to help the families.
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