Munich Mania

And so the end of our trip draws near, with what i like to call Munich Mania... for no particular reason, just like it. Well I'll actually start with hannover... definantly the busiest time of the trip, but probablly the most informative 3 days in a row we've had. We visited the Hannover Vet school and that was really interesting because they immediatly got us into to the gross anatomy part of the vet school since we saw horse heads half sawed off and dead dogs and cats used for teaching. I definantly won't forget that strong smell. Later on that day we saw how the follicles of a cow are extracted in order for use in embryo transfer and research. Then they let all of us also gear up and stick our hands in the cow's colon in order to get a "feel" for what it's like, and attempt to find the ovary's. Tuesday was exceptionally interesting because we went to the Bad Oeyenhausen heart and diabetes center. There we got what i would think to be a vip tour of the ICU and the artificial hearts in use today. Also we got to observe open heart surgeries which was really neat and a great first experience. Today in Munich we had a complete city tour and then we all pretty much went souvenir shopping. I bought a sweet bavarian flag for my room. I've decided that Bavaria also has the coolest "mascot" of any German state, it's a flipping Lion... how cool is that... they will eat your face!