Sometimes, even the smallest little thing can brighten my day. Today, I had to go back for another control check-up at the AKH hospital at 8:00am. I wasn't exactly excited about getting up before the sun to go sit in a waiting room for an hour just to have the little doctor tell me to keep taking my eye drops and come back in a week. I usually don't like going to the doctor at all, because it is pretty impersonal over here. The conversation usually goes something like this, "Hi Ms. (butcher my last name). Your eye is still broken. Take these three times a day. See you soon. Bye." There isn't much more to it than that. I've never been asked what I was doing in Austria, or really anything about myself before. My visits to AKH are all business, and not very friendly, so I always try to get out of there as fast as possible. I got into the examining room after about an hour of waiting (as expected), and saw my regular eye doctor waiting for me. Also in the room were a few nurses bustling about and two medical students waiting to see the American girl with the crazy eye. -- It didn't take the doctor very long to look at my eye, and then he turned to his desk to write out some notes and give me an Rx for some more medicated drops. While he was scribbling away, the boy medical student looked over at me and smiled. He said, "Well hi! Where is it that you are from?" I was quite surprised that he was talking to me! While the doctor worked, he asked me all about the weather in Kentucky, my studies and travels, life in the US, and about my crazy eye. He ended up being German, so then I told him that later today I would be traveling to Germany for the weekend. -- He got very excited and just talked and talked about how fun it was and how he hoped that I had a great time! :) This time, when the doctor said that he would see me next week, I was kind of sad to leave. The short conversation that I had with this guy really made my day start of wonderfully. He was so friendly! -- I am quite confident that this medical boy will make an excellent doctor one day. His bedside manner is the best I've seen in Europe!!!