Week 4

This week was exciting to say the least. On Tuesday, we left Bonn and arrived in Vienna where we spent the week. This was a great start to the trips to come. We visited several very interesting medical locations. First we visited a catacomb under a church where victims of the black plague were buried. Another place that stood out was the wax museum full of the parts of the body (like the hearts, lungs, muscles, and full body skeletal/muscle systems) it was cool to see the representations of these parts we learned about up close, but not actually real. My favorite place to visit was the Narrenturm (madhouse tower) where there were human specimens on display. This was probably the most intriguing and disturbing place that we visited. It was full of deformities and abnormalities. Grotesque fetal skeletons, skulls that had deformities or holes from murders. It had also recently snowed in Vienna so we got to have snowball fights and I got to make my first snowman! We also went to this one indian restaurant where there were not any fixed prices, only donations which was a very unique and lovely thing to see for a restaurant.

 Over the weekend we went to Prague and had an incredible time. On Saturday, it was gloomy, but we got to see Charles bridge and explore the city. We also got to visit the old Jewish ghetto, Petrin tower, the controversial sculptures of David Cerny, and the Charles Bridge twice, since the second day was a beautiful cloudless day. We even got to end the visit by going to this little café that was a hidden hole in the wall called Skaustky Institut where I had a glass of hot chocolate and people watched in the large square by the clock tower.