It was a pretty unusual experience in Microbiology today. We were learning about bacteria and the different types of motility they have to move around. While listening to the professor, I turned my attention over to a little bug on the empty chair in front of me. I told my cousin (who is in the same class as I am) to look at it, to see what it was up to. Turns out, that it was on a girl's scarf at first then a couple minutes passed and somehow traveled to the next empty chair that had her purse on it. Immediately, my cousin and I looked at each other and joked about how the bug was an example of a bacterium jumping from host to host! Perhaps the little bug was attracted to the texture of her scarf and wanted to use it as its sleeping bed. Everything that our professor was lecturing, suddenly came to life! Just as every Bacteria has a specific way of motility and preference to which host it will stick to, the little bug seemed to not like the girls' purse. It was a lucky day to just randomly experience a real- life experience!
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