Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The Lab: Sterilizing Beside Cockroaches

Emailed by Elizabeth to Neil:

We spent the morning making sure that our pressure cooker worked and collecting water for drinking, the lab work, and our emergency eye wash station.

We are finally to the point of trying a real test run with the agar, and it's almost 10pm. I guess college kids have the same habits wherever they go. We had been distracted by all the bugs that come out at night in the office. Another part of the hold up was our lighting situation.
One of our newly wired ceiling lights doesn't work, and the other has the best strobe light effect I have ever seen. So we moved to the best lit room in the building and sat on bundles of mosquito nets to watch our chemicals boil on a hot plate on the floor.

If all goes well we will be at this again on Thursday and Friday; after spending all day collecting samples in Nyambogo and interviewing each family we visit.

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