Bayer and Hannover

We just got on the train headed to Switzerland! I am looking forward to the 5 hour train ride so I can get some much needed sleep. This week has been so busy that i have had no time to blog. So much has happened too!

Monday we went to Bayer research facilities. The research animals were quite impresssive. Normal when you think research animals you think sad animals in cages all day, but not here. All the cats would clamor to the front of the cages for attention, and tje dogs would be howling and wagging their tails happy to see a new face.

Hannover was fun but again much to short. It was great to stay with a host student. Mine, Louise, was a sweetheart, her little flat was so cute and decked out in IKEA(pronounced E-K-ah).

I am very impressed with the size of the school, I am sure they have more acreage than our school does. They also have 200 people per class! That is quite impressive considering A&M has the 2nd largest class size of any US school at 132.

The first day in Hannover we went to the state Hannoverian stud farm, where they train and evaluate Hannoverian colts, as well as some collection. The horses were absolutely stunning and the facilities were impressive as well. They have automatic feeder so all the horses in a barn get fed at once to stop horses from getting impatient. Then we toured a great little town called Celle. It was the ideal little German town, very small, clean and beautiful.

Then on wed we listened to 3 presentations by the proffesors of TIHo they were very interesting presentaions, from a very different prospective. We also toured their musem on the history of vet medicine. I never really thought about the development of this profession so this collection was quite interesting. It is very impressive to see the developments we have made.

This morning we had free to see the sights, but many of us went to the Hannover zoo. This was a very very cool zoo. It made me wish i was 10 again, because not only were the exhibits very cool but there were awesome little playgrounds everywhere.