Let's Get Our German On!

So, I finished packing roughly 5 days ago (I started 5 days ago too so, that’s pretty good and everything fit in a carry on *pat on back*), left College Station and headed home. I thought I was good to go but now as my flight approaches (t-minus 8.5 hrs) I am starting to stress out and can’t sleep. I have back-packed across parts of Europe and I have studied abroad but for some reason I think this is the most stressed I have been prior to a trip…ever! Yes, I feel like there are probably things I have forgotten and I am definitely going to miss my two furry punkins but, I think my biggest stressor is the fact that this program costs a butt load and I am beyond broke! Aside from that I am super pumped! Some of my closest friends, from school, went on this trip last summer and their stories were amazing! I can’t wait to do some of the things they did and go to all the places they did, plus we have an awesome group this time around!!!!

I really hope that I get to learn a lot about veterinary medicine from a different perspective, but I also want to learn about the culture and history of Germany. Each time I go to Europe I leave with a new appreciation for its’ historical beauty and now that I am going with a focus on the thing I am most passionate about I can’t wait to see what is in store for us! I am definitely tracking small animal and hopefully there will be an MPH somewhere in my future but I am super super hopeful that we will get to do surgery on a cow- like they did last summer :)…..hopefully the stories I have heard haven’t led me to have too high of expectations (that is impossible when one is going to Europe with friends, right?). I can’t wait to see the European vet schools and meet more students from ‘across the pond’; it is going to be a blast!

Anywho, I don’t think I am making a whole lot of sense and I am not entirely sure I completed this accurately but that is what happens when it is way past your bedtime. BTW I am excited that Dr. Pine is joining us and I am super excited about getting to travel around using the rails (I wish there were more metros/subways around here as they are very very very convenient and cost effective).