Hannover!

We are now in Hannover! I am so amazed at how nice my host student is! In order to give us the full German experience she made coffee and breakfast every morning (the most important meal of the day in Germany!). Also I realized that when you are invited to a friends house they tend to offer their own bed for you to stay in! Which honestly was slightly awkward for me as an American :) It was a new idea for me, and something that I am sure no one in the US would even have thought about doing!

The area around here is so much fun because there is a forest right next to the apartment and my host student and I went walking there with her dog. Which was really great to watch because her dog is so well trained! It is kind of like watching a free style dog show routine :) I was very impressed!

Later we did a small excursion to Badersleben in former east Germany. Here the veterinarian in this small town showed us a bit of what it was like to be a veterinarian in the GDR. I was surprised about the lack of plastic in general. I think it would be very difficult for me to imagine a hospital today without plastic!

In general Badersleben was a lot of fun due to the common link between veterinarians and their students. We definitely had cross cultural bonding over pathology! It was a lot of fun for me in particular as it was my first direct translation experience. It was exhausting but I learned a lot and have a new level of respect for the real translators out there!