Berlin, Germany
Sunday Oct. 3rd
The trip started out with an 8 hour bus ride from Copenhagen to Berlin. There were 33 of us in one giant coach bus.
Highlights:
-Exploring/getting lost in Berlin!
-Dinner at Unsicht-Bar: a dark restaurant, literally not an once of light. The meal was in utter darkness, and the food was all a surprise. We all resorted to eating with our hands, licking our plates, and there are rumors of the some of the guys taking off their shirts for the whole meal.
-Epic dance party at "Øktoberfest in Berlin," where we met this fine character:
And we all proceeded to dance with him. Good times.
Monday Oct. 4th
Highlights:
-Tour of a center for Molecular Medicine (see... there is some academic element to these trips)
-A sightseeing bike tour of Berlin! We saw the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, the Reichstag, the place that Hilter commited suicide (now an apartment parking lot), and lots of other building/memorials.
Me and my classmates in front of the Berlin Wall (I'm the one to the right of the girl in red)
-Soccer game in Berlin!! Lots of fun. Unfortunately the game ended in a 0-0 tie.
BUT my friend Barathi and I bought scarves, so we looked like legit fans:
Tuesday Oct. 5th
Highlights:
-Visit to the Berlin Medical History Museum: So cool! It was a museum about the old medical techniques that people used to use during wars and old medical "therapies." For example, they used to give sick people liquid mercury to "sweat out" their disease... the mercury of course made them sweat because it poisoned them and eventually killed them. There were also tons of specimens of human medical anomalies... a lot of which were fetuses that didn't survive. Very creepy but very cool.
-Wine in the TV Tower! It the highest bar in Berlin, and from the top, you get a complete panorama of the city.
-Pub Crawl with our ENTIRE group (33 college kids), plus what ever other people signed up. So much fun. We went to 5 different bars/clubs around Berlin, and you paid 14 EU at the beginning and got free drinks at each bar :)
Of course, with our gigantic group, we started the dance party where ever we went:
every person in this picture is in my class. so fun.
Wednesday Oct. 6th
Highlights:
-Tour of Bayer Pharmaceutical Company in Berlin (in the morning)
-Lunch at the Reichstag: (To give you some perspective of how my school spoils us) The Reichstag was the parliament building for Hilter's party during the Holocaust. We got personally escorted past a huge line and let in the side entrance and ate in the 5 star restaurant at the top. The meal was so good that FISH was the main course and I ate it AND enjoyed it.
We left Berlin in the evening, and set off for a 4 hour bus ride to Poland!
Poznan, Poland
Highlights:
-Arrived in Poland, had a delicious dinner, and then we all went bowling (on the school, of course).
Thursday Oct. 7th
Highlights:
-Shadowing a gynecologist in the morning.
-Trip to the most delicious chocolate cafe in the whole world... Cacao Republika. I would literally travel back to Poland for the sole reason of going here again.
Magical.
-A really fun night bar hopping in Poland :)
Friday Oct. 8th
Highlights:
-Shadowing a pediatrics doctor in the morning. The little kids were so cute!! Kind of made me want to be a peds doctor...
Us looking like legit doctors
-Tour of LECH Brewery (supposedly the best beer in Poland... although I still just don't seem to like beer that much. I gave the second half of my beer to one of the guys on the trip).
-Another DELICIOUS dinner
Me with my free beer from the brewery tour
Then, a 12-hour overnight bus ride home! I slept in the isle of the bus....
All in all, it was an awesome trip! Berlin is huge and has an awesome night life. Poznan is the cutest, most amazing, and cheapest city ever. I returned to Copenhagen with some amazing memories, and I became really good friends with all the kids in my core class. Great success.
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