Day 93 - Knee surgery

So as I stated yesterday, not much was going on today. It was mainly school work with a little bit of excitement thrown in at the end, but overall a really normal day. My first class was History of Medicine where we learned about Paracelsus and Hildegard Von Bingen, two really important people in the advancement of modern day medicine. It's of particular importance because we'll be doing a Hildegard workshop doing something (I know not what) and learning more about her life on Wednesday. After that was design, which was basically a class to work on the DHF that's due at the end of the year. We actually got a lot of work done in that class, only needing a few more sections before the assigned sections were completely done. Unfortunately, my computer died and I forgot my charger at home, so we were one computer down. It didn't help that our last member was stuck in Scotland because a late bus caused him to miss his flight yesterday and catch one today, so we were really low on computer power. Luckily I was able to still make myself useful with my ability to come up with amazing ways to word phrases to help my teammates as they tried to show our product in the best possible light.

After that, we took a small break for lunch before coming back just in time for the dreaded signals class, but luckily we stayed in relatively easy territory and mostly learned about the various proofs of established theorems and how they got to that point. We also got our quiz back. Haha, you remember that quiz I talked about on Friday? The one I said I did really bad on? Yeah...I did really bad on it. In fact, the entire class did bad, bringing the class average to be about 38 out of 100. In retrospect, it makes my 45 look that much better, but it's not a good thing for the class when that grade comes out to be the average. I could feel Sarah's disappointment as we looked over what we did wrong, which really stinks because she's actually doing a really good job at making us understand what it is we're supposed to be doing. The teacher back in C-Stat is so bad, the students don't even bother to come because they'll just be confused even more than they already are.

Once signals was done, we got back together to work on homework, both of the signals and the design kind. We finished almost everything up with the sections we had to do, and I went back home. When I arrived, I saw a full house that was there to check up on Sophie, who had knee surgery today. Poor Sophie looked so sad, carrying around her blood bottle so her knee wouldn't bleed everywhere and hobbling on crutches. We played a few games before dinner where everyone talked in German around me, so I just kind of faded into the background. I eventually went upstairs because I have an early day tomorrow and wanted to write this post, even if it's short.

I can't wait for tomorrow, which is the Rhein cruise. The weather isn't supposed to be that nice, in fact, as I write this I can hear rain pounding on my window and earlier today, I got caught in a short hailstorm. Don't worry, the hail was the size of small raindrops and melted quickly, but not an hour later it was sunny and windy. I finally found a new top to Texas weather. The Germans call it April showers because April seems to be the only month where the weather can be nice one minute, then horrid, followed by an innocent sunshine, continuing on for almost the entire month. It's supposed to be cold tomorrow with a small chance of rain, but I won't let it ruin the boat ride.

Till tomorrow!
Erin Z

P.S.: No pictures today, but stay tuned for tomorrow!