The third week started with going to church on Sunday, Jessica one of the fellows we’ve been working with at Rice 360 had invited us to her church, The city of refuge. The pastor delivered a wonderful sermon on stewardship and how to manage the different relationships God’s entrusted to us with, with that in mind I was ready to face the week.

Getting to work was great, we proceeded researching more on the cyclonic separation method of filtration, then we came up with a project specification that helped us in the process of brainstorming some of the possible designs that could well fit on an oxygen concentrator. Moving on from there we further did some calculation to determine the best cyclone separator sizes that would provide the best efficiencies with minimal pressure drop. We also took some time to design one of the viable designs using a design software called SOLIDWORKS.  On Friday we had a mid-term presentation in which Dr Leautaud and our project supervisors were the audience. After the presentation we received a very positive insight through the comments and questions that came from the audience.

Friday night marked a work pressure relief moment for us as went out with some fellows Jack, Sarah and Jessica together with Grant to a Japanese festival where we saw and learn about the Japanese culture from the exhibits, and we also got to play some of the Japanese games which was fun, we also tried some Japanese food which were being sold on the function. It was such a blissful moment getting to talk with the fellows on different non-work-related issues and dancing to the beautiful music that was blasting on the event.

Life in Houston is getting better and sweeter as the days go by. We’re meeting a lot of people outside work from of various nationalities who are nice enough to tell us more about the city. The weather has now changed from hot-humid to a cold weather which is very good for us.