Once I finished out my project, I was free to vacay. The crew and I took Thursday and Friday off to go to Puerto Princesa for our last trip. That Wednesday night, we left for Manila for our 5 am flight Thursday morning. We slept over at the condo for FNRI boys because they were …
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Successssss!
Once I knew that the better quality Taq makes a difference, I redid the whole process for all the samples with the Taq and was able to get more data. But two of the primers were still not giving me any data so me and Ratna had to brain storm to figure out what might …
What a Scenic Week!
I got in to work on Monday, ready to be careful and make sure I was doing everything right. That day Ratna wasn’t coming into work because she wasn’t feeling well which means that it was up to me to make sure everything was on point. It took me the whole day to get the …
Mellow week
The past Monday, I was able to finally meet my supervisor, Dr. Swamy, and talk to him about what I’ve been doing at IRRI so far. Shortly after, he assigned me to another PhD student Ratna. She just came back from Indonesia from visiting her husband and her two little boys and might I add …
One hell of a week
This past week I got to visit more departments in the IRRI. On Monday, we got to go to the Plant Growth Facility again to work with and observe some of the workers sorting the rice, one grain at a time. It was a tedious job but it has to be done in order to …
From Farming to City Life
For the first two days of the week, I was scheduled for some field work. So remember last time when I said that after you added the seeds in the dry bed, they will be ready to be transplanted in 21 days. Yeah so even though the ones we planted weren’t ready, there were other …
New Experiences
What you see might look like a grave yard but they are bamboo sticks that are used to differentiate numerous variety of rice. I had a chance to take part in seeding on dry beds last Monday. This is basically the first step in the harvest of rice. After the different variety seeds have been …
Week One
After almost a day worth of traveling, our large group of 20 students had finally arrived in Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Tuesday. We were greeted by the heat and humidity right outside the gates. Tito Mon was waiting for us with a sign, ready to take us to Los Baños for our orientation. We …
The Journey Begins
Thanks for joining me! Selam! My name is Dilyetna Tekeste Gebru trying to capture my two months in the Philippines. Hope you like it
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