Hi everyone!
Thank you for continuing reading the next part of my blog 😊 It is unbelievable,
the first two months have already passed here in Buffalo, time is flying so
fast!! This month, I am at Leukemia, Internal Medicine at Roswell Park. The
attendings here are rotating every week, so I shadow and round each week with a
new attending. Most of the patients here suffer from acute myeloid leukemia and
treatment is mostly chemotherapy. Students have the possibility to see a lot of
bone mearrow biopsies and they can even join the attendings at the Laboratory
Medicine, where the exact diagnosis and type of hematologic disease is made.
One weekend we visited Old Fort Erie with T. É., a lovely lady who
taught us a lot about that special, historical place. Getting to Old Fort Erie
means travelling to the edge of the Niagara River to experience the sights and
sounds of a fort under siege at the War of 1812 National Historic Site. We joined
British, First Nations, and American soldiers on a tour of the grounds and
learned more about Niagara’s pivotal role in the War of 1812. Stepping back in
time and reliving history by musket demonstrations and the annual Siege of Old
Fort Erie Re-enactment was a unique experience. Even though 200 years ago it
was a place of war, today it is a very pleasant, calm spot of New York.
We also had the chance to visit P. Bácsi in Toronto. One phone call - 2
days full board for three girls. As soon as he gets to know that we do not have
any cranberry and orange jam at home, he rushes into the cellar and gets us
also some typical Canadian maple syrup. Everything homemade, naturally. He is
currently writing a cookbook with old recipes and adapts them to modern cuisine. Obviously, he bakes himself as well - you can
see his famous apple pie in one of the pictures with the „HMAA“ logo on top.
And all that at the age of 94. Not only his cooking skills are amazing, he
tells us a lot of impressive stories about his life: The experiences he has
made and people he has met make your jaw drop. It is really instructive talking
to him.
But now a little bit more about Toronto: Compared to Buffalo, it's a
complete different experience. Lights, huge buildings, people on the street!
Lots of people! We loved it. A mini New York City I would say. We walked a lot
in the city, visited the beautiful Aquarium and the Distillery District which
is a historic industrial quarter that is now used as an arts and entertainment
district. It consists of several listed brick houses and is the largest
collection of Victorian industrial buildings in North America. Built in 1832 by
Gooderham and Worts, the destillery became the largest one in the world in the
late 1860s, most of it was for export. Located at the port and connected to the railway network of the Canadian National Railway
it had a good connection, not only to Canada.
In the attached pictures you can see Toronto skyline from the CN tower,
which lies in the southern part of Toronto. It is a 553 meter high television
tower and landmark of the city and was the highest television tower in the
world from 1975 to 2009. It serves the telecommunications and the dissemination
of over 30 television and radio programs. Even if the ticket to get all the way
up to the top of the tower is not that cheap and even if you have to wait quite
a lot until you get up there, the view is absolutely worth it!!! So I recommend
it to everyone visiting Toronto! We tried to see as much as possible in these
48 hours, but on Monday work was waiting, so Sunday evening we had to go home.
To be continued in 4 weeks – bye for now!
Lumbach Réka
2019. augusztus
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