Berlin

Monday the program started again, which meant no more sleep and long days. The day started with a guided tour of Berlin. Fortunately this was the coldest day yet and we were outside for the tour. Luckily the tour guide did a good job of finding time to talk to us inside when he could. Also I had all ready taken my own tour of the Brandenburg gate, Reichstag building and Holocaust memorial, which was good because the tour wasn't able to spend much time at these places. After the tour we went off to visit a medical school. They teach the alternate curriculum, which is focused on problem based learning. In fact we got to do a little hands on learning ourselves.

On Tuesday we got up early in order to travel to Dresden. Some of you may know this town from the Kurt Vonnegut book "The Slaughter House-five". During the was this city was firebombed and much of it was brought to the ground. In the time since then the old part of town as been reconstructed in its old fashion. After the city tour, we went to the German Hygiene Museum. The museum was very interactive. I wish I was able to understand everything in it because I feel that I miss out on a lot of the exhibits because of the language barrier.

Wednesday we were back in Berlin and had a tour of the Max Delbruck Center for Research and the Otto Braun Center for prosthetic's. The work that goes on at both of those places is amazing and it is incredible what they are able to accomplish.

Today we left Berlin to make our way to Hanover. After battling through a train cancellation and overcrowded train, we made it to Hanover. Once we made it we toured the new facility of the Large Animal Veterinary hospital and then had a tour of the small animal teaching hospital.

I'm off for the night, next time I post it will be from Switzerland.