Last Week Impressions
Last week was an extremely busy week for me.
My only really free day was Thursday on which I had to study for a pharmacology seminar on Friday. Fortunately, I passed that seminar yesterday. Dissecting lab afterwards wasn't too bad as well, but after standing 3 hours bend a neck and trying to get through to the thyroid gland and below was making me feel a bit sore.
What was great, however, is that on Wednesday I got my examen results - from the big examen on February 23rd - that I am very satisfied with.
So, yesterday night, two friends and I went to see "Elementarteilchen" based on a novel by Michel Houellebecq with Moritz Bleibtreu and Franka Potente among others. Moritz Bleibtreu got a Silver Berlin Bear for his role at the Berlin Film Festival. It was an excellent movie in regards to realism in portraying relationships and "basic things". The story was about two brothers, who were left by their mother at an early age and turned outh completely different from each other. One of them, the scientist, tried to prove that sex wasn't important, while the other, a writer/teacher, was obsessed with sex. Both of them change throughout the movie. Although it was rated 14 years + over here, I think it might be R-Rated if not more if it ever crosses the Atlantic. There are some funny moments, but many serious ones. You don't leave the cinema thinking the world is bad, however. The actors all did an amazing job. It might be a bit "too German" for some of you by being very direct and making you think about lots of things while watching the movie.
Afterwards we went to this small café decorated in 60s style.
And now something completely different. Over the past few weeks I've come to realize that there are tons of male medical students in my lecture hall and doctors and professors at the Medical University Vienna who either look like actors I know or like they could be American in general.
Well - to name a few - there is the substitute we had last Monday in "Physical Examination" who looked like Daniel Brühl. My friend thought so too.
Then there is the doctor who heads a seminar I have to attend who looks like a younger and dirty blond Tom Cruise. I think it's funny, but that does not mean that I like Tom Cruise, I actually don't.
And one of my physiology professors looked like Sir Alec Guinnes as Obi Wan Kenobe in the Star Wars.
My only really free day was Thursday on which I had to study for a pharmacology seminar on Friday. Fortunately, I passed that seminar yesterday. Dissecting lab afterwards wasn't too bad as well, but after standing 3 hours bend a neck and trying to get through to the thyroid gland and below was making me feel a bit sore.
What was great, however, is that on Wednesday I got my examen results - from the big examen on February 23rd - that I am very satisfied with.
So, yesterday night, two friends and I went to see "Elementarteilchen" based on a novel by Michel Houellebecq with Moritz Bleibtreu and Franka Potente among others. Moritz Bleibtreu got a Silver Berlin Bear for his role at the Berlin Film Festival. It was an excellent movie in regards to realism in portraying relationships and "basic things". The story was about two brothers, who were left by their mother at an early age and turned outh completely different from each other. One of them, the scientist, tried to prove that sex wasn't important, while the other, a writer/teacher, was obsessed with sex. Both of them change throughout the movie. Although it was rated 14 years + over here, I think it might be R-Rated if not more if it ever crosses the Atlantic. There are some funny moments, but many serious ones. You don't leave the cinema thinking the world is bad, however. The actors all did an amazing job. It might be a bit "too German" for some of you by being very direct and making you think about lots of things while watching the movie.
Afterwards we went to this small café decorated in 60s style.
And now something completely different. Over the past few weeks I've come to realize that there are tons of male medical students in my lecture hall and doctors and professors at the Medical University Vienna who either look like actors I know or like they could be American in general.
Well - to name a few - there is the substitute we had last Monday in "Physical Examination" who looked like Daniel Brühl. My friend thought so too.
Then there is the doctor who heads a seminar I have to attend who looks like a younger and dirty blond Tom Cruise. I think it's funny, but that does not mean that I like Tom Cruise, I actually don't.
And one of my physiology professors looked like Sir Alec Guinnes as Obi Wan Kenobe in the Star Wars.