Stomachs in Jars?

Dear Family, Wednesday November 26th 2008
I got up, and went to meet Willow and Annalise at an U-Bahn station for a cultural trip Annalise had planned. That ended up not working out, so we went to the opposite end of the city to visit another museum. When we finally got there we discovered that it was closed on Wednesdays, so we looked in our Vienna books and went to the closest museum in the area.

That museum happened to have been a medical school, so the displays were all diseased stomachs in jars, models of people with a disease of the retina, their eyes half the size of their face, etc. It was pretty gross, but the wax figures of bodies were pretty cool. They had wax models of every organ and muscle and bone, so going through the rooms you got to see everything. Needless to say, we didn't spend long in that place.

We headed off to our Opera and Theater class, where we discussed' “Salome” and “Rebecca.” Afterwards I went to a second hand store with a bunch of friends and we desperately tried to find some dirndls. I was the only one who didn't find one. It was awful. We did have loads of fun though.

After not finding a dirndl, we went to Institut where we listened to a lecture from a BYU professor about evolution. That was kind of pointless, as I'd heard that entire lecture at BYU last year, so I didn't really learn anything new. However, afterwards I talked to my friend Stephan for an hour and a half, so I got loads of German practice in.
Love,
Anna