dead body exhibition

After my typical Saturday routine at the gym and in the lab, I went to Grand Central to meet up with Dave yesterday afternoon. He took a train to the city, and we went to "Bodies--the Exhibition" at South Street Seaport. My classmates and I were talking about this exhibit just a few weeks ago, and I really wanted to go see it. Well, the exhibit was GREAT. It freaked me out a bit that all the specimen came from real human bodies but it was amazing to see how our body looks like inside and how it functions. It was very educational. This may sound cheesy but I thought that people are not too different underneath our skins--indeed, each one of us share 99.9% of the same DNA. and I also learned it's important to use sunscreen, not to smoke, and to have mammogram after seeing melanoma skin, lungs of smoker, and breast cancer tissue. They are powerful tool for health education, I think. I strongly recommend this exhibit to people who are interested in human anatomy.

After spending 3 hours in the exhibit, we went to a Thai restaurant close to my school for dinner. Food was decent. As usual, food made me happy. I always wanted to try this restaurant and I think I would go back there for lunch sometime.

Then, I went to see Dave off at Grand Central and got back home around 9:45pm. It was fun hanging out with him! I hope he'll come back to NYC to hang out again.