Week in Review

So so much has happened this past week. I'll go by country:



Poland: 34 other classmates and two study tour leaders (alex and kristin, both doctors) and i drove for 12 hours to poznan, poland on what would become an incredible trip. poland is depressing and to top it off, we watched the pianist on the bus. overall not much to say about it though. they have an awesome mall and everything is cheap and i shadowed a pediatrician in the hospial there. we learned about lactose intolerance and then we sat in on an exam of a 7year old boy and when the doctor asked who was next for doing the exam, i was the only one to volunteer...when will i be able to do that again for at least 4 more years. i felt so grown up. after three nights there, we drove to...



BERLIN: alright, this is my FAVORITE place in the world. ive been twice and continually love it. we arrived on wednesday and within 1 hour got in a slight bus accident, no big deal but it was a great start... that night we went to unsicht bar-the blind restaurant...amazing just like it was last year. you eat in the dark and have blind waitors. afterwards, i became tour leader to about 7 students b/c i remembered berlin so well and can navigate. it was so much fun. thursday we did some cultural and educational stuff like going to the major hospital in berlin-charite and then we went to the olympic stadium and had a tour. so as we are driving back, im talking to some people about the perfume store i love there and who would have guessed, but we are driving on the correct street on the right block! so the driver pulled over and let a few of us off. we bought perfume and it was amazing. then i led the same group on a mini walking adventure to KaDeWe. that night we had a really lame dinner cruise. i ended up sitting next to both the tour leaders-alex and kristin. we had a really great conversation during dinner about religion in denmark and then some misc. stuff. after the boat ride, we went to the hopbanhopt big train station and got alcohol, then went back to the hostel...the events of the next 30 minutes can be asked directly to me. then me along with 8 other students and alex and kristin went to this awesome very local berlin underground club called Sage Club. There were about 10 different rooms, one with a live band. I hung out inthe live music room with maria and kristin, then alex came and got us to go downstairs to the dancing. we had a wonderful time there. Friday we went to the DDR museum and had a nice group lunch then had the afternoon free...so i bought birkenstocks. but, friday night was the hightlight so it gets its own paragraph.



Friday night!: about 15 of us and alex and kristin went on a pub crawel in east berlin and afterwards planned to go to this club called Panorama. At the first bar, alex and i talked about how excited we were for the club. of course i had dressed appropriatly for a club in europe...but no one else did. the leader of the crawel said that this club was one of the hottest in berlin therefore-appropriate clothing needed, no americans, no big groups, speak german. so, it ended up that after the third bar, alex kristin and i (he speaks german and we were all dressed right) snuck off to panorama. BEST NIGHT EVER. It was fabulous and they were fabulous and the music was amazing and the vibe was amazing. I danced till 545am and then we took a taxi back to the hostel. i had so much and didnt want to leave. the next morning i got up at 745am (next morning...maybe not) to leave for copenhagen.



BUS: the bus ride was painful. by the end of the trip though, i feel like i made a few really good friends and hoping that some new friendships develope in november when i return...even if two of those friends are doctors.



I got back saturday night at 7pm, packed, and left the next morning for LONDON with stephanie. We have had the busiest few days and tomorrow i go to MADRID to visit gilad!!



London: i will write about later because i just typed a lotttt.