Class

Friday morning was a rough one to wake up for. We rode the tram to town, which is about a 25 minute ride. The public transportation is very easy to use much like most of Europe. My mentor was amazed that i drove my car 5 hours to dayton to catch my flight. We had the introductions to our Lean Manufacturing class and our History class.we then departed and went to the Cafeteria, which is about a 20 minute walk. The food is very good, and not overly priced at all unlike London was many years ago. After lunch we were set free in the city and told to find some differences and similarities between the two cities. We met a few very nice German girls that were handing out handy (cell) phone promotions. She said that we're all set with making friends cause girls love American guys, which lifted our spirits. :) After the guided tour, we went to a University sponsored dinner. I had spare ribs and fries, which were very good. My friend Dave had the best Venison i've ever had in my life. Others had Pork Legs or dumplings. A very good dinner to say the least. We then came back, showered up, and went out for the night. We were headed to a place called Killy Willy, pronounced Killy Villy. We were told that it was a good pub atmosphere. It was very fun. I did a shot of a liquor called Absinth, which is made with an herb grown in Holland that supposedly makes you hilucinate. It was a very very very potent Black liquorish flavor. and i did not hilucinate. Uck. We caught the night bus system home. It was funny being relatively sober and watching everyone look at us on the bus because we're such loud people. Even in an everyday conversation we speak very loudly.
On Saturday we explored downtown Leipzig going to the top of the tallest building to take pictures of the city and going to a cafe. We then came back, showered up, and went out for the night. One of our mentors, Cor, took us to a student dance club with a bar. It was underneath the tall building in town. It seemed to be an old bomb shelter or something. old red brick and completely under ground. it went down 3 stories to dance floor #1 which was US hip hop and dance music that was popular about 3 months ago. down two more flights of stairs was a Rock music floor, again, with american music. Down one more flight was the Alternative floor where they played heavier american Rock. I will take pictures of this place when we go back, cause i'm sure we will go back. I think alot of the guys enjoyed it because it was very loud, so we could be as loud as we wanted. Some of them even started a game of thumper on the table with some german girls, which is a VERY loud game. Good times were had by all.
Sunday, some of the guys went to the zoo. I chose to spend the day catching up on sleep, which i did. We then went to Champions sports bar, yes, the american chain bar, to watch the red wings and NBA playoffs. We go to BMW in the Morning. Pronounced BMV.

All of pictures up until now can be seen at:
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