Last Friday, October 2, our group in thesis planned togo to Ajuy to perform our bio assay. We went together with our beloved test animals--50 white mice. We we're supposed to perform at Joy's house at, but since we considered the expenses as well as Hannah's presence in her sister's debut, we opted Ajuy. No one disagreed because the trip was like a package--we can perform and get tired with the assay and we can also fill our tummies with the bountiful food from Harriet's debut (Hannah's sister) and enjoy the sun and the white sand beach (Marbuena). Who wouldn't agree to that? Oh well, despite the rush and the warning of an incoming supertyphoon, we pursued our plan.
At 2pm on the said day, we met up at Tagbak terminal to wait for the bus to bring us to the place. Despite our preparations, we forgot to bring one of the most important apparatus that will be used in the assay--the oral gavage. So the others went back to the university to retrieve those stuff from the stockroom. When we're all complete and sure that nobody and nothing is left behind, we headed for the bus, then of we went.
We arrived at Hannah's 'mansion' (haha) at around 6 in the evening (since the bus we have ridden left at around 4). We we're warmly welcomed by the people in the house. After fixing our stuff in the room spared for us, we had dinner specially prepared by Tita Heidi, a.k.a. Anabel (we rather call her with the latter). Roasted spare ribs and calamares are my favorites! Good thing I brought with me antihistamine! Haha! After dinner, we rested for a while in the living room watching TV. Then, around 8pm we started to do our first sacrifice initiated by yours truly (I was the one assigned to do the honor of "killing" the poor mice and disecting it). Tadah! Success! One down. Then we continued to do the excision of the first batch--10 mice administered with NSS. Then off we went to dreamland at around 12 midnight.
Everyone woke up around 7am the next day (it's hard to wake up late at a place like theirs where everyone seemed to wake up at wee hours in the morning! Dang!) It's Harriet's birthday already. We we're supposed to celebrate it in the island, but due to the weather, we weren't able to travel because according to the "sailors", we won't be able to battle the big waves using even a bigger pump boat. And so our energy went down to zero. Instead of thinking what should we to instead, we went back to our room and slept. It was so embarassing because we we're awakened by the noises of the visitors. The celebration was still on the go and was held at their residence. We panicked because we haven't got ourselves cleaned yet. So, we hurried to the bathroom and proceeded to have lunch. Really embarassing. Just then, the embarassment faded after a little while (mga kapamuks muh!), and we started taking pictures with the celebrant and Tita Anabel. Haha! To add more fun, we had a video marathon at a hanging cottage nearby. We had so much fun. We also went at Neca's house to view the island we were supposed to visit (hanggang tingin na lang). Then we went back at 6pm and had our dinner a little later. We have to hurry and get busy with our assay because we still have 4 batches left. After finishing the 2nd batch--administered with atropine--we found out we weren't able to weigh our extract, thus we could no longer continue. That one sucked all the energy we have left. It's barely midnight and we're still on the go to finish 2 more batches. Even we still want to, we no longer couldn't go further. So we decided to hit the covers and went to sleep. Tomorrow is another day. We could only hope and pray that we can finish everything the next day.
Sunday was our last day at Ajuy. Tita Anabel even offered to bring us to the island even the party is over IF, only IF, we finish our task at luch time. And so, that was our energy booster. We started at 8am and finished EVRYTHING at 12! Exactly what Tita Anabel asked us to. And so, as promised, Tita brought us to that island. We left the house and loaded the vessel to take us to the place to be around 1:30 pm, or so. We reached our destination after half an hour. We have finally stepped to the island they call Marbuena. We we're even given the oppurtunity to tour the whole island (since it's not that big), took photos and videos while hiking (some paths we're really a little steep), had snack after the hike and went swimming right after. Since we don't have enought time, we went home drenched around 3:30 (because we still have to catch a bus to take us home). When we reached their house, we hurriedly cleaned ourselves, said our thank yous and bid our good-byes to everyone. The time has now come for us to leave. We're all so thankful that despite some mishap and the rush, we we're able to accomplish what we should finish during our weekend stay at Ajuy. Not to mention that the almost-not-fulfilled-trip to Marbuena was fulfilled. Weehee!
At 2pm on the said day, we met up at Tagbak terminal to wait for the bus to bring us to the place. Despite our preparations, we forgot to bring one of the most important apparatus that will be used in the assay--the oral gavage. So the others went back to the university to retrieve those stuff from the stockroom. When we're all complete and sure that nobody and nothing is left behind, we headed for the bus, then of we went.
We arrived at Hannah's 'mansion' (haha) at around 6 in the evening (since the bus we have ridden left at around 4). We we're warmly welcomed by the people in the house. After fixing our stuff in the room spared for us, we had dinner specially prepared by Tita Heidi, a.k.a. Anabel (we rather call her with the latter). Roasted spare ribs and calamares are my favorites! Good thing I brought with me antihistamine! Haha! After dinner, we rested for a while in the living room watching TV. Then, around 8pm we started to do our first sacrifice initiated by yours truly (I was the one assigned to do the honor of "killing" the poor mice and disecting it). Tadah! Success! One down. Then we continued to do the excision of the first batch--10 mice administered with NSS. Then off we went to dreamland at around 12 midnight.
Everyone woke up around 7am the next day (it's hard to wake up late at a place like theirs where everyone seemed to wake up at wee hours in the morning! Dang!) It's Harriet's birthday already. We we're supposed to celebrate it in the island, but due to the weather, we weren't able to travel because according to the "sailors", we won't be able to battle the big waves using even a bigger pump boat. And so our energy went down to zero. Instead of thinking what should we to instead, we went back to our room and slept. It was so embarassing because we we're awakened by the noises of the visitors. The celebration was still on the go and was held at their residence. We panicked because we haven't got ourselves cleaned yet. So, we hurried to the bathroom and proceeded to have lunch. Really embarassing. Just then, the embarassment faded after a little while (mga kapamuks muh!), and we started taking pictures with the celebrant and Tita Anabel. Haha! To add more fun, we had a video marathon at a hanging cottage nearby. We had so much fun. We also went at Neca's house to view the island we were supposed to visit (hanggang tingin na lang). Then we went back at 6pm and had our dinner a little later. We have to hurry and get busy with our assay because we still have 4 batches left. After finishing the 2nd batch--administered with atropine--we found out we weren't able to weigh our extract, thus we could no longer continue. That one sucked all the energy we have left. It's barely midnight and we're still on the go to finish 2 more batches. Even we still want to, we no longer couldn't go further. So we decided to hit the covers and went to sleep. Tomorrow is another day. We could only hope and pray that we can finish everything the next day.
Sunday was our last day at Ajuy. Tita Anabel even offered to bring us to the island even the party is over IF, only IF, we finish our task at luch time. And so, that was our energy booster. We started at 8am and finished EVRYTHING at 12! Exactly what Tita Anabel asked us to. And so, as promised, Tita brought us to that island. We left the house and loaded the vessel to take us to the place to be around 1:30 pm, or so. We reached our destination after half an hour. We have finally stepped to the island they call Marbuena. We we're even given the oppurtunity to tour the whole island (since it's not that big), took photos and videos while hiking (some paths we're really a little steep), had snack after the hike and went swimming right after. Since we don't have enought time, we went home drenched around 3:30 (because we still have to catch a bus to take us home). When we reached their house, we hurriedly cleaned ourselves, said our thank yous and bid our good-byes to everyone. The time has now come for us to leave. We're all so thankful that despite some mishap and the rush, we we're able to accomplish what we should finish during our weekend stay at Ajuy. Not to mention that the almost-not-fulfilled-trip to Marbuena was fulfilled. Weehee!
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