Today wasn't very exciting, but it was rather full. It started out with a meeting about our upcoming trip to Berlin and Dutderstadt, where we will be touring and presenting for Otto Bock. It was nice, and gave me something to look forward to amidst all the planning of our project that's still going on. After that was our History of Medicine class, where we got into our groups and worked on our prosthetic. My group seems to have the basic ideas down, today was mostly about figuring out how to attach the device onto the residual limb without discomfort or introducing structural instability. Wow, I really feel like a prosthetic designer with all this brainstorming on how to fix the various problems that could possibly crop up. It's really fun to think that I'm getting a taste of what I could possibly be doing in my career. My design teacher was also impressed with our use of models to convey our ideas and the fact that I've kept every single scrap of paper that we've written on for this project, which is a good thing because we'll have to turn in a Design History Folder to her at the end of the project for our Design class.
After our brainstorming hour, we had signals review for the test that we'll be taking on Wednesday. I'm a bit concerned because I didn't remember a lot of the stuff she went over in much detail, but I feel like everyone else in the class is at that point as well, so at least we'll struggle together. At the end of that class, we took advantage of the fact that Sarah was an engineer to ask her questions on how to make our designs better or if she had any ideas on how to fix a specific problem.Well, one of the groups did. I had a really fun conversation about politics (revolving around Russia and how concerned we are with that whole mess) that eventually morphed into terraforming other planets and how we could do that as well as which planets were best suited for each kind of method. Yeah, we're a bunch of scientists that are just having a fun conversation. Actually, when Sarah heard what we were talking about, she got this really happy look on her face and told us that we were awesome, which was frankly the highlight of the day. That right there just shows how much we like her because that spot was previously held by getting free food, which as all college students know, is a really big deal.
Anyway, after that class was technically lunch, but a lot of us still had food left over or were still full from the food we had gotten earlier. All the people who were going to Paris started looking into where we were going to live over Easter weekend. It took almost 4 hours, but we finally settled on getting an apartment close to the Eiffel tower and splitting it among the 8 of us for four nights. The last night will be spent in a cheap hostel close to the central station because our trains on Tuesday are going to be really early. This gives us the benefit of being close tot the station as well as not having to make the owner of the apartment get up at an ungodly hour because we had to catch the 8 am train back to Bonn. I'm really excited for this trip, I think it will be quite the experience.
After fixing up the living conditions, I left to get home because it was already getting a little late and I wanted to eat dinner with my family. When I got home, I ate and spent some time with them. I even learned a little bit of a dance that Sophie was teaching Marie, so that was fun. Soon it was time for bed, so I went up to my room to write this post. Sorry, there's no pictures today, and probably not even tomorrow because the teachers will be gone and we'll have a work day all day. Oh, and apparently public transport will go on strike on Wednesday and Thursday, which really stinks because our test is Wednesday, and we're supposed to go to Aachen on Thursday. I'm sure we'll all get in though, after all we still need this grade and we definitely want to explore another region of Germany.
Gute nacht!
Erin Z
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