Friday August 6, 2010
Wednesday we headed to the Molecular Medicine Center. Then we went to a lab area where we learned about technological breakthroughs in surgery. They had things like 3D views, a simulation that you could “feel” and look around a guys face, a texture board thing, and the guy said they’re even thinking of devices that allow you to “smell” sickness. That was pretty neat stuff. Afterwards we headed into town where we saw the Otto Back building. We saw lots of neat things and prosthetics. There were many simulations that had you thinking about prosthetics and orthotics. Overall it was super neat! It really made me think about just being a bioengineer and not a PA. I just want to like what I do. Hopefully some internships will let me see what’s going on. After the girls went to the Hachense Markt or something to that extent. It was neat to walk through houses and stuff in the tunnels but the shops weren’t anything spectacular. We went to a Mexican restaurant we’d seen earlier. It was SO good! I got a burrito with chicken and cheese and after we all got ice cream. Overall it took about 3 hours but we had some great convos throughout the entire thing. Fun times!
Thursday was Dresden day and I figured out that Dresden is beautiful! It was kind of like a little America in Germany! I liked it a lot. We went into a Lutheran church that got ruined during the war and was rebuilt. It was so pretty inside! We went to the hygiene museum in Dresden and all got assigned rooms to present. I thought a lot of the museum was very interesting! After the museum we headed back to the Hbf and came back to Berlin. Once here we went to a “sand bar” kind of thing where it’s exactly what it sounds like: A bar that people put a lot of sand around to make you feel like you’re at the beach. There were even volleyball nets!
On the last day we went to the Charite Museum and had a little tour before heading to the med school part of Charite. It was really neat! A med student working there prepared little rooms for us and taught us cool things! The first room was checking ears; the second was IVs( which I wasn’t very good at);the third room was learning to suture (all great skills to learn!). I was pretty bad at suturing too…so hopefully I’ll get better? Yes…anyways we’re getting ready for dinner now, packing for tomorrow, and finishing up our last blogs so the next time I’ll write will be in the good old US of A!
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