This summer was a complete blessing from God to be in a lab experiencing a taste of that work and also being able to have a chance at living as light in a workplace.
In my lab were an overly busy director, a friendly supervisor, and a jocular field technician. Other than those three, two who I rarely saw, the other five were four Chinese post docs and another student.
Mainly I got to know one guy, PG, over the course of weeks. We'd sometimes talk a bit after work in our office and we were both working on the same project. I found out he had a wife and two kids and started praying for them specifically. Later I found out he has gone to the Chinese Christian Church regularly for years, but doesn't have a close relationship with God and rarely reads the Bible. He is worried about the future and his kids. His wife has a home daycare and helps with children Sunday school. They invited me for dinner the last week I was in Saskatoon. I love this family and pray God would bless them and work in their lives, opening PG's eyes to all He is, helping him to trust for His provision in everything, and continuing to use his wife as the means by which faith may grow in this family.
As for my actual job, well, I could probably talk for a while about it. But basically it was a project where we were trying to find out what exactly the resistance genes against leaf rust in wheat actually do. Like the final disease state is well documented and visible, but at the molecular or microscopic level, what is happening??? So I was on the microscope a lot. > . < I really enjoyed my co-op term report / NRC presentation which I needed to do a bunch of research on the topic to prepare for. xP
I am not opposed to working in a lab again, but the open-endedness of my specific tasks kinda bugged me. I like having things that are completable.
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