BMW

We woke up early on Monday morning to go and visit the BMW plant on Monday morning. We arrived by 9 am by a combination of trams and buses. After arriving we met the BMW staff that would be accommodating us. They were very nice and spoke english very well. We did an orientation of the company dating back to 1918 up through present time. We ate lunch in the company cafeteria, bratwurst and potatoes with a gravy on all of it, very good. We were then led on a tour around the entire facility. It is about 2 square kilometers, a very very large plant. They even have suppliers on site that moved there. I will write later on the specifics of the processes later, because we are going back tomorrow. I also don't want to bore all of you avid readers with technical mumbo jumbo. Anywho, my feet feel like we walked about 5 miles today, which is probably an understatement. Upon returning to the dorms i recieved a call from Anne, my student mentor, she wondered if some of us would like to meet her and her friends at the carnival. A few of us accepted the offer and had alot of fun on some of the rides. It was rather pricey though, around 2.5 - 5.00 Euro for a ride. We only went on two, and we had to twist Anne's arm to go on the "big" rollercoaster. We made plans for the upcoming weeks, a student club called TV on Thursday night. We returned to the dorm around 20:30 and here i sit drinking a beer writing this. Tomorrow its up early and off to BMW again.

If you would like to see the award winning BMW plant that we visited today, here is a great link.

http://de.truveo.com/BMW-1-Series-BMW-Plant-Leipzig-Germany/id/1045708591

Chuse
(See ya)