Jenquisha, Berlin & Poznan

And I'm back from the dead. Sorry for the week long hiatus! After I got back from long study tour/Budapest I literally got slapped in the face with school work. Not to mention we got back from Budapest way later than expected because our flight was delayed by 5 hours. So 4 papers, 2 tests, and 1 critique down, I still have some more to go, but I'll make it.

Anyways, study tour was awesome. Our first stop was Poznan, Poland after an excruciatingly long bus ride. Poznan was cute, but also in a state of disrepair. The hospitals we saw there were definitely different from what we'd seen before-they were well kept, but way behind on technology.

Start of the trip-on the beach waiting to take the ferry to Germany

Poznan, Poland early morning

 Pretend doctors...

Walking tour

Funny story about the walking tour: At lunch before the tour, I was trying to remember how to say thank you in Polish. I couldn't remember how to pronounce it and accidentally said "jenquisha" instead of "jen-koo-ya" (actually spelled dzienkuje??). After joking around about what that sounds like, I had it down. At the beginning of the walking tour our guide asked us who knew how to say thank you in Polish. Super excited that I just figured out how to say it, but a little over confident-I yelled out "jenquisha" instead of "jenkooya." I just about died. The tour guide stared at me, then continued talking. So embarrassing yet so funny. Whoops.

Uh yeah, this was the look on his face...shooting daggers

(photo credit: BEN)

After two days in Poznan we got back on our retro-funk bus (bit of a downgrade from the space bus) and drove to Berlin. I LOVED Berlin. Theres so much history there. There's this saying in Berlin, "We're poor, but we're sexy." Haha I liked it. We went on a really fun bike tour while we were there, and also a pub crawl. Our pub crawl leader was named "Stefan." And yes, it's pronounced in the ridiculous snooty way with the accent on the 'a.' Never thought I'd meet a real person with that name...haha anyways it was a pretty good time. As for the academic part, my favorite was the Center for Anatomy where we saw a bunch of cadavers and organs. It was crazy and gross, but also really interesting.

artsy district in Berlin

 first German beer in Germany

bike gang

 Reichstag, the white house of Germany, where I had the most expensive meal of my life (40 euro!)

top of the Reichstag

the hotel where MJ dangled his kid from

The dome church-you can see the pollution

More of the bike tour

Group shot in front of the Berlin Wall (photo credit: Nshunge)

 At a communist bar on the pub crawl

 Yay we love Berlin

 another piece of the wall

Instead of taking the bus back to Copenhagen, I went to Budapest with three friends for the weekend. We were exhausted, but Budapest was so beautiful we had an amazing time. I'm going to upload pictures on another post though since this one is already pretty long. All in all, it was an awesome trip and I can't wait for our travel break!