We are now entering the final 7 days we have left here in the Netherlands! I can't decide if the time went by fast or slow.. but now the pressure is definitely on! Not only is there a lot to do to finish up our goals in the lab, but we have found ourselves struggling to see everything we had hoped to see in Europe. We have been here about 11 weeks now, and until last week I had not even done the "must see" things here in Delft! So, Audrey and I spent a quick afternoon at the New Church in the city center. The church itself has so much history. The Oranje Royal Family is all buried at this church, the stained glass windows are gorgeous, and then there is the tower of the church. Without a warning of what we were about to embark on, Audrey and I paid our token and began the journey to climb the tower to the top of the church. Little did we know, 365 steps later, we would make it! There were points along the way where you could go outside onto a very small ledge/ balcony and have a gorgeous view of the city. Each time we thought "there can't be more steps, could there?!" But, we did it! We made it to the top! We counted the steps on the way down to see if we were just wimps or if we had really climbed to the top of Mt. Everest or something! 365 steps was right, our legs were definitely still shaking once we reached the bottom again! But I'm so glad we decided to do it!
This week is crazy busy trying to put all of our data together from our time in the lab and put it into presentation form. We are also working on writing a paper about our experiments in the lab. This is the first time that I've had to anything like this, so I am quite nervous (especially for the presentation next week!)
Packing up all the stuff we brought here (along with everythinggg we've acquired since we've been here) is going to be a difficult feat in itself!
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