Farmer's Pharmacy - International Rotation: Day 18: Friday, October 25

I guess first things first - HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM... You're still so young for me but Maria and Sarah won't be able to say that when their my age. Haha!!:). I love you and I'm so glad you came to Ireland to visit!!!!:)

This morning it was so nice out, we've had beautiful weather this past week in the 60s. We headed down to Dublin town center at 9 AM to spend another day at the RCSI pharmacy school! We sat in on 4 classes about liver disease, phytochemistry, microbiology, and Parkinson's disease. We never had a class called phytochemistry but we did learn a lot about medicinal uses of plants in Dr. Schiff's classes. Their class notes were printed out on power point handouts, they looked just like our notes at home!

I decided to be studious nerd and took a lot of notes:)). I'll share the ones for liver disease and Parkinson's disease!!! I loved listening to their professors because the accents but they teach very similar. It is a lot more hands on lectures back home because today we literally sat in the same room for 4 hours and 4 different classes....and them just talking. It was definitely very very good but very Informstion driven!!!!

The first lecturer was The original program director and she did a fantastic job with incorporating a case with the liver disease- otherwise though it was pure information and this was the 3rd year students!!

After lunchtime today... We went to the Guinness storehouse so Cayla could explore it!! It was slight rain on the way but a nice walk!!

It is soooooo cool -- made up of 7 floors and in the very center of them it makes the shape of a pint, which is considered the largest pint glass in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records! If it was filled with liquid, it could hold 14.3 million pints of Guinness.

We did the tasting experience and I felt bad for Cayla because the people were not as good as last time I came with my mom and Jeremy!!!

The foam at the top is very thick because it contains Nitrogen. It's important to bring the glass up to your mouth and tip it back so you get more than just the foam which tastes very bitter! The actual beer itself is a deep red!

With our admission ticket, we got a complementary pint of Guinness and actually got to pour it out from the tap ourselves! To start you had to pull the tap towards you to add the nitrogen in so the foam could form. After pouring it 3/4 of the way you had to let it settle, then top it off by pushing the tap away from you so no nitrogen would be added. The foam is so thick it reminded us of ice cream..

Cayla got some Guinness stew and mashed potatoes in Arthur's bar before we headed out into the beautiful day:)

I cooked us a delicious meal of tortellini and tea with honey for my dang cough won't go away..but it actually tasted delicious!!!! I was quite proud:)