Things are really looking up!

Last week was really good ....Maybe because I didn't have any horrible labs to stress me out...
On Monday I had genetics which was good. But I'm still looking forwards to cytogenetics, that's what makes me really excitied!!! Spent the afternoon working on my media essay on 'Stereotypes in To Kill a Mockingbird'.

Tuesday and Wednesday came and went. Had a media lecture on NZ sports! We compared sports in NZ to sports in Holland! Wednesday as usual I had a 2 hour genetics lecture in which we learnt about human evolution! Haven't done that since first year! Really interesting!

On Thursday for the first time this trimester I actually enjoyed the bio lab! That's because we were doing cytogenetics!!! My favourite ever! Our BIOL 341 lecturer Dr Rickards and Dr Ryan took the lab and for the first half we analysed a pedigree chart. We also got our blood samples taken! We were going to analyse them in the following weeks lab! We'll get to see our own chromosomes! After the lunch break (and my media tutorial) we got back and studied Allium!!!! We had to figure out how to locate meiosis in the Allium plant! It was really amusing! I made about 10 slide preparations trying to figure it out! At the end of the lab Dr Ryan showed me how to do it right...! It was really fascinating! Like it took me ages to figure out that meiosis is best seen in the anthers of the flower!...thanks to my minimal plant knowledge :( But it was interesting to finally see mitosis! We had to write up the method for locating meiosis for next week. And I knew how!

On Friday I handed in my media essay. Whew! That's out of the way! We had our last lecture on molecular biology. The following week we would be starting cytogenetics!!! On Monday we would be having Dr Rickards back for cytogenetics!!!! Yahoo! Can't wait!! :) I've been looking forwards to that since the course began! :) ...not that I don't like molecular genetics...it's just that cytogenetics makes me...really excited!!! :)

On Saturdey I went to Tanya's birthday. We went to a restaurant.... and Christina was there!! Yea!!! I haven't seen her since she left for university at the begining of the year! She came to Tanya's birthday with Adrian. I knew it! I was suspicious she'd be there...!! It was great to catch up! ;)It was a really interesting restaurant. First you chose a whole bunch of raw food and then you watch it get cooked! I had soo much seafood!...two plates full! ...and there was dessert...Tanya, Erin (Tanya's friend) and Christina....

...and dessert! It was great to see Christina and Adrian, and catch up!...
When I got home I had my genetics assignment to do... which was also really interesting!
I didn't really have a weekend that week because I had to do my essay for genetics on a human genetic disease. I studied the Fabry disease. First DiGeorge, now Fabry... That should be interesting.... I wonder if our last assignment will involve writing an essay too... :)