Monday, May 9

After finally getting some sleep we headed over to the University of Augsburg in the morning to get a brief lecture from Dr. Feick, which was a general overview of the project, and got in our groups to work on a small presentation that was due a little later that day. It was nice to get to know my other group members immediately, and get a head start on the final project that’s due next Wednesday. Following the presentations we had lunch at the Mensa, which is equivalent to our dining hall but much better, and got a tour of the campus. It has much more of a campus feel to it than Pitt and all of the buildings are relatively modern since it was built in the 1970s. I really liked all of the green space, and it seemed like a lively campus with a lot of kids hanging out on the lawns. After that we went on a scavenger hunt throughout the city, which required me to use my little German to ask someone to take a picture of our group among other things. It was cool to actually finally use some of the language that I took all of high school, but at the same time stressful. Dinner could not have come soon enough as 10 miles of walking around and getting lost tired the entire group out. We went to an Italian restaurant in the center of town which, like all of the food here, was so good. Following dinner we hung out with some of the Augsburg students, but everyone was tired so we got back at around 11.