The fact that an entire two weeks have gone by since my flight from Dallas to Frankfurt, Germany is hard to process. It seems like yesterday I was unpacking my things to my new room in Oberdollendorf. I can't tell whether it's because I'm having so much fun or the fact that we stuff so many activities into a day. I'm thinking it's got to be a combination of both. Last week our whole class spent Tuesday-Friday in Vienna Austria and then the majority of us hopped on a bus to Prague for the weekend. Anyways here's the breakdown.
On Tuesday May 30th it was an early morning wake up in the village of Oberdollendorf. Joseph and I had managed to be on time to class everyday despite the 30 minute transit time.... EXCEPT for the one morning the whole class had to catch an early flight to Vienna. We missed the tram by one minute and ended up being 20 minutes late. Shout out to for Henny accounting for someone messing up because we ended up being slightly early for our flight 🙏🙏. After landing around noon in Vienna it was off to our hotel the Deutschmeister to set down our bags and get to exploring. Dr. Wasser had told us that we would be accompanied by an Austrian doctor for our first tour which we were really all wondering why we'd need any one other than Dr. Wasser to lead our tour of anything. It turned out to be his medieval plague doctor alter ego "Dr. Schnabel"who led us around the city and gave us an overview of the medical history. After this we went to Sigmund Freud's house which is what I thought to be one of the coolest things we did. Dr. Wasser put it in perspective that we were actually inhaling the residual cigar particles that came out of one of the many cigars smoked my Dr. Freud. It's actually amazing getting to learn about such an important part of history in the most relevant place possible. I feel like I was able to gain a lot more appreciation of the topic just from learning in that location, which is a funny thing to think about.
We finished the first night at a group dinner where we were first introduced to delicious dish of goulash, in which we'd become very familiar with over the remainder of the week. I learned that in Vienna most of their schnitzels are made of veal which was delicious in contrast to the pork schnitzel I had in Germany the week before. Day 2 had an early start and headed out to visit the josephinum. This was my favorite museum because of the incredible wax models ordered by Emperor Joseph II. I just finished biomedical anatomy this past spring semester and had probably too much fun being able to classify arteries and nerves from the well preserved wax models. Unfortunately we weren't able to take pictures of these but we were able take some of the amazing artificial heart section of the museum. After the Josephinum we made a couple more stops to The House of Music and the Capuchin Crypt which were both very interesting in their own ways.
During our last day we visited the natural history museum in Vienna. Naturally being a guy and a Myles Garrett fan I loved everything that had to do with dinosaurs. They had life size re creations of smaller dinosaurs with feathers. Scientists now have indicators showing that the T-Rex was actually covered in feathers, even though we may never know what color they might've been. After this big group of us headed to the train station to catch a ride to the Prague.
When we finally made it to Prague we were slapped in the face with yet another entirely new currency and language whooop. We thought german looked funny on paper but thats only because we hadn't seen Czech yet. It really wasn't as bad as it seems because we had a fun time walking around with 2000 Czech korunas and feeling rich (Thats equivalent to about $86). We ventured to the castle on the second day and spent about ten minutes just climbing a spiral staircase to attain the view below. Needless to say it was very much worth it.
We finished the first night at a group dinner where we were first introduced to delicious dish of goulash, in which we'd become very familiar with over the remainder of the week. I learned that in Vienna most of their schnitzels are made of veal which was delicious in contrast to the pork schnitzel I had in Germany the week before. Day 2 had an early start and headed out to visit the josephinum. This was my favorite museum because of the incredible wax models ordered by Emperor Joseph II. I just finished biomedical anatomy this past spring semester and had probably too much fun being able to classify arteries and nerves from the well preserved wax models. Unfortunately we weren't able to take pictures of these but we were able take some of the amazing artificial heart section of the museum. After the Josephinum we made a couple more stops to The House of Music and the Capuchin Crypt which were both very interesting in their own ways.
During our last day we visited the natural history museum in Vienna. Naturally being a guy and a Myles Garrett fan I loved everything that had to do with dinosaurs. They had life size re creations of smaller dinosaurs with feathers. Scientists now have indicators showing that the T-Rex was actually covered in feathers, even though we may never know what color they might've been. After this big group of us headed to the train station to catch a ride to the Prague.
Going forward I've been trying to see Europe with a Da Vinci state of mind and it really had made things more interesting. Next week I'm excited to explore and learn even more with all these great people.
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