Hello again. ;) Well, I arrived successfully in Germany and have found my new favorite food Duran!! It is a pocket of lamby goodness topped with vegetables and a garlic sauce and the best part is that it is only 3.50 euros!! I have already eaten 2.
On Monday we went to an organic farm and learned about organic farming in Germany. I love gardening so this is a subject that I am very interested in. Also, I spent 2010-2011 in Portland, Oregon which is a very organic community. The practice of people being able to rent out a plot of land to farm is a great opportunity for the locals to get back to the land through harvesting from it. In the afternoon, the group headed for an animal research laboratory on the campus of Bonn university. There, we learned about the process of embryo transfer in mice as well as the equipment and upkeep of the facility. For myself, the ventilation system and the self sealing cages were quite impressive.
On Tuesday, the group visited a doctor of homeopathy which is for myself hard to accept due to the lack to scientific studies and proven medical research saying that homeopathy works. Also, it was a bit difficult to understand how different combinations of flowers were used in order to cause symptoms for a particular disease. For myself, I am not against using homeopathy in combination with a more western treatment regiment, but by itself would be difficult to recommend to a client. In the afternoon, the group went on a tour of Bonn which was delayed halfway by hail and pouring rain. ;( We all managed to make a penguin like formation to protect the weak like myself who had forgotten their umbrellas from the hail and bitter cold. The best part of the tour for myself was the discovery of the 2000 year-old floor and tiles. To think that the town was so old and full of such history was amazing.
On Wednesday, the group visited a dairy farm on the other side of the Rhine river and listen to several PhD lectures regarding movement, nutrition, and lameness in dairy cattle. For myself, I found the second lecture in regards to measured movement in cattle and lameness to be the most interesting because at Oregon State University a team from Israel came an did a similar project, so I am familiar with the subject matter. In the afternoon, we visited the House of History and I completely loved it. From a young age I have always loved history and politics and the tour blended them beautifully. The most interesting part of the tour for myself was the fall of the Berlin wall and the reunification of East and West Germany. I remember my father talking about it often in 1989 when I was only 6 but to him it was unbelievable because he grew up in during the cold war and never believed that West and East Germany would be reunited. Truly for the German people, it is one to the high points in their history. Tomorrow, we are going to the zoo in Koln and I am looking forward to it. For now, it is sleepy time...I will blog again soon.
Kris
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