Expoquimia

Because the biggest chemistry expo of the Mediterranean area is in Barcelona this week, Expoquimia. I couldn't say no to an invitation to this event. The only downside of this day was that it was 26C and everybody had to wear something decent like a suit. So most people were quite overheated, the good part of this was that I had to wait for my colleague to park her car (and so did 500 other car owners tried at the same time) so I sat in the shade and watched them all rushing by.

After we got in we ran into our other colleagues and we figured out what where was and where we should go. The expo is big, really big. And we wanted to go to a few stand for some information about our chemical cell and my other colleageas wanted to go to some companies who purify water en sell machines which do that. After 10 minutes of arguing where everything would be, it turned out to be all in the same room just one door away.

In the morning we did some 'serious' shopping and got a lot of information, after lunch my colleague went home and I went to IKEA. Since the building is right next to the exposition building. I didn't recognise it as IKEA cause it is not a blue box but it is just one big construction side. The inside luckily did look like IKEA :)

After the small shopping (light bulbs and wrapping paper) I went back to Expoquimia because there were some companies which I found interesting to might be doing my next internship. Since I wasn't buying anything and I obviously did not come from the Mediterranean area (I was the tallest person at most stands, that included the men), they knew I wasn't coming there to ask for some brochures. I did ask them if they have interns and do projects. And I did find a nice company I really liked and they are located around Valencia. I might get lucky again next year :)

After I got home the neighbours complained that they thought something was stuck in the ventilation fan on the roof. So I climbed on the roof to find some feathers (?!) but nothing was stuck, and I had a nice view of the sunset.

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