Poznan --> Krakow, Poland!

Here we are in Poznan, Poland! The second installment of our organized study tour. Even though it seems like a completely random place to visit, Poznan actually had a lot of cool stuff. It felt very stereotypical in the Eastern European sense. A lot of buildings still look very communist in design which was interesting. This was their main square though and it was pretty cool. The coloured houses reminded me of Copenhagen. This was our last night together after a week of traveling to Berlin and now Poznan. This was our Medical Practice and Policy Group A at the local Brew Pub. The food was excellent and they had great selection of beers. This trip was unbelievable and the people were all really interesting and it was just awesome to meet all of them.
Now for traveling with my high school best friend Peter! We just arrived by train from Poznan in Krakow, Poland! Here I am with Goodbye Lenin Hostel in our background. It was a little sketchy but a nice hostel in any case. I guess you always meet interesting people when you stay at hostels and this was no exception! But the people were really helpful here and there was a good breakfast provided! Always a good thing.
This was our first excursion in Krakow, it was the Salt Mines! These are the stairs that are taken about 135 meters below ground.... Round and round and round until you finally reach the bottom. Then they take you on a guided tour around the tunnels and passages, with so many cool salt sculptures. It's ridiculous the stuff that they have down there and to believe that it's all made out of salt, even more impressive! The air is apparently very mineral filled and it smelled really fresh and cool. It's weird though that you are breathing such "fresh" air way below the ground!!
A random miner that we found and had to take a picture with hahha.

DIS Long Study Tour --> Berlin, Germany!!!! Let the good times roll

Sorry everyone that this has taken SOOOOO long to get a post up. I've been really busy traveling and trying to actually get some work done! It's been hard and now it takes me a lot longer to do the work I have because I haven't done any for so long! hahahah. In any case, this goes back a couple weeks to my trip around Europe for 3 weeks for my spring break! Greatest time of my life... so many good memories and lots of pictures to make sure that I don't forget! Here are a few. This first one is taken in Berlin at the Sony Center. It's a movie theater and I guess a Sony headquarters, but a great looking building no doubt and this was taken inside , between all the buildings.
This was the start of an awesome night. After all of our scheduled activities were done, three of us (Josh and Andrew) took about a 4 hour walk around ALL of Berlin and saw some great sights at night! Above is the Berliner Dome, an AMAZING Protestant Church that was gorgeous to look at.
Now I'm in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Really cool and has a lot of Greek architecture molded into it. It was huge.
There are bits and pieces of the Berlin Wall still standing in lots of different places around the city. Here is one of them and I had to touch it. Felt kinda weird... knowing what it once and still stands for.
This was taken on top of the Reichstag Building (Parliamentary Building). We had lunch at the top of the Reichstag and it is supposed to be a very prestigious and nice restaurant which is definitely was nice. Great 360 degree views of the whole city!