Hannover

What a great experience...

It was great to see life as a vet student at Hannover...staying with the host students was a brilliant idea to get a glimpse of what life would be like going to a German university. I also got the extra experience of what it might be like to go to professional school as a mother....and to that I say "no thanks." :) Kudos to my host Kat for being so great.

As far as the program went...the lectures were pretty interesting but to be put back to back to back was a bit exhausting. I guess I've fallen out of "vet school" mode so it was difficult to sit in a classroom for that long.

I guess for me, I would have liked to have toured the school itself more and seen the clinics. Just like what we show the German students at our school, I wish we could have done the same here. I know Professor Breeves said that clinics are all the same, but I personally think it would have benefitted our students to see this type of thing here in Germany. Perhaps it was there way of enticing us to come back to see more.

Hannover itself was such a welcoming, easy-to-navigate city that I definitely see myself coming back. I would actually really like to come back during a winter break sometime for maybe a 2-3 week stint and really get into being a German vet student.

From what I can see...it seems to be a little more lax here in Europe i.e. all the class skipping that I saw and the Wednesday night dance parties :P

Until then I will have to work on my German.