Foreign Perspectives

The breakfast was a pretty basic two sausages, egg and tomato with a selection of cereals plus tea/coffee/chocolate, juices and toast which is fine for a residential as you just end up putting on weight with the big meals.

The morning went in pipetting samples of plasma to determine the glucose levels. With 42 samples to work through that took quite a while and then we’d to measure the glucose levels and plot the results. All that took us up to lunch time and seemed mainly designed to get us used to working in a laboratory.

Lunch was in the staff canteen and had quite a wide selection. The £7 voucher was enough to pay for a main meal, dessert and two drinks which worked out at pretty good value.

After lunch it was into a new laboratory and we went through a range of tests for blood pressure and pulse rate which took an awful lot longer to do than we’d expected. No white coats this time as there weren’t any chemicals involved.

The evening sessions are to be looking at what we did earlier in the day and what we’ll be doing tomorrow (which is split between the first and second themes).