Yesterday was pretty nice as our teachers all went to Dusseldorf for a teacher meeting. The only thing we had on the schedule was to meet with Professor Jane Brucker so she could help us out in our presenting. Before we started in with Jane, Frederike came up to us to make sure that we would still be able to get to school through the strike the next few days. It turns out that I'm 3 miles from Bonn, and 2 miles from Bad Godesburg (the nearest station that would be working.) Because I'm so far away, I would either need to walk for about an hour or more, catch a ride from my host mom who works in the opposite direction of where I needed to go, get a cab, or get a bike. I decided to go with the bike option. After all, I have a bike back home and have a lot of experience with biking places. How difficult could it be?
After I told Frederike how I would be getting to and from school, we followed Jane over to the back table where a bunch of craft supplies were, and she showed us all the different things that we could use to make a model of our prosthetic. We got into groups and started in on the model, but after only a few minutes, we realized that model making was no one's strong point and our leg looked too skinny and misshapen. Instead, we started doing our own thing and made a 3-D model in inventor and a 2-D drawing of the internal view of the body because we're including osseointegration in our design. At the end of our time period with Jane, she reminded us that we were presenting with our power points the next day. There was just one problem: none of us had known that and spent the last 3 hours trying to make a model like she wanted. When we brought this up with her, she just said that we should have known and it would have been smarter to work on the presentation if we were so far behind. So that was added. There was also the small fact that the test over the material that none of us knew was going to be the next day. Oh, and we still needed to finish up the models that we had started. Yay.
I went out to lunch with a bunch of other students and had a great time, but needed to leave early so I could get my bike from AIB. Luckily there was a bike that was working at a satisfactory level, so I planned to bike home to get the rout in my head while the sun was still out. Then I would take the tram back to AIB and leave the bike at home and stay out late studying and working before catching the night bus before the strike started at 3 am the next morning. For once, my plan actually worked out. The only thing was the fact that the bike was a little small for me, and I had to get used to biking in the bike lane...on the roads in the middle of traffic. I made it home and only had time to say hello to my family before leaving to go back to AIB. I spent my time there looking up hostels to stay in because the lady whose apartment we were going to rent was banned from the site we were using. At 7, I took a break to watch a movie, but I was so restless that I left only an hour into it to study for this test. Let me tell you, I've never been this concerned for a test, and I'm pretty sure everyone was getting aneurysms because of the stress we were putting ourselves under. At midnight, I caught the night bus to go home, but couldn't sleep and so looked at more places we could stay in Paris. Why do I always take the night bus? My regular tram is a 20 min walk from my house, and as safe as the neighborhood is, I don't really want to walk it at night if I don't have to, so I take the bus that drops me off a block from my house.
Today, I had to wake up extra early to make sure I would get to school on time because today was day one of the public transport strike part 2. So I biked. Everyone else must have had the same idea because there were packs of bikers going into Bonn today. On the bright side, my commute is about the same time-wise, and I get to see the sights of Bonn as I get closer to the city center. It was rather relaxing actually. I got to school much earlier than I anticipated, but used that time to go over signals material before my Physiology class. In Phys, we actually had a lecture instead of working in our groups, but it was probably poorly planned because most of us were stressing so hard about the test and the power point presentation later that day. Next came the worst of the day: Signals. I was actually able to put something down for every question but the bonus, but there was definitely a portion of the test where I blankly stared at the page...and earlier people were saying they would need to tie me up in the corner so I wouldn't blow the curve!
A really interesting building I saw on my commute
After that hour and a half, I worked on the model some more and one of my teammates worked on the power point. We worked through the next class period and right through lunch, but we got something on the paper that we could present to the class. Physiology lab was the last thing on the agenda for the day, and that was mostly presenting our prosthetic and getting feedback from the group. It seems like everyone is almost done with their designs, we just need a little bit of external input on how to fix potential problems. After the presentations, we improved the power points a little bit more before people started to drift back home. My group finished up before starting on the Design History File due Friday (it was moved back from midnight tonight.) When my computer was almost out of battery, i packed up for the day, but was reminded that we still needed a place in Paris. I looked for a bit, but it was starting to get late and I wanted to get home before it got dark and being seen would be harder. I went home and ate with my family and just acted a little goofy with them before settling down on the couch for a bit before going to bed.
Tomorrow is our field trip to Aachen, so that will be very interesting. hopefully I can get a post up tomorrow and not skip another day.
'Till then,
Erin Z
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