Doente

Doente means sick in Portuguese, and thanks to one of my roommates, is the state I currently find myself in. I knew I was in trouble as I heard him hacking up his lungs every night over the past week, and sure enough I too started to feel some gunk building up in my throat. Luckily it isn't too severe, and I'm already feeling my body process it.

In other news I showed some of the people from the lab here how to use a software package to analyze gel photos. I struggled through it in Portuguese but I think that they all got the gist of it. Over the next week I'm going to have to spend time with each person individually to make sure they understand all the nuances of the program. That was pretty much the big event of the week here. Other than that I've been going to some nice places for lunch, although the whole white rice thing here is getting on my nerves, I still don't want to see that stuff after my experience in the Philippines.

Today is a semi holiday here in the Nucleo, people are cleaning up their labs or just surfing the web. As such not too much for me to do, I'll probably go check out the hospital in the afternoon, wander around and see what's up. Tomorrow I'm going paintballing with some people from the lab. Apparently it's in a big warehouse, so I'm looking forward to that action. I'm off to go read some articles in the library, until next time.