TUD Orientations

The first 3 weeks of the summer semester was a blast! Thanks to the various activities organised by the TUD Exchange Alumni and the almost daily parties. Below are some photos of some of the events:

Darmstadt Tour

The mini tour of Darmstadt ended at a Bier garden, naturally. Here's me with all the English-speaking guys from US and Aussie plus Mamoro from Japan.

Landesabend

Landesabend was an evening about getting to Germany. It was held at Brasil, a usual hang-out pub for exchange students. It was an interesting evening with German quizes and learning a bit of Hessisch (the German dialect of this region). Here's me with Adam from Sydey and Maureen from the states.

Blind Dinner

We were all supposed to cook something from our homeland and I bravely attempted pineapple rice, in a pineapple. It looked much better than it tasted! We were hosted by 2 Spanish guys Ignacio and Jesus which spent lovely Sangrias the whole night long.

KneipeRally

Unfortunately I accidently deleted all the photos from this event. Nonetheless, it was a crazy evening where the whole exchange community were devided into 5 big groups of about 20 students each... and we went around Darmstadt for a massive pub crawl, competing which group could drink the most. By the time we were at our 3rd pub, the judges at the pubs were already too drunk to keep count.. so eventually there was no winning group. The night ended at An Sibin.. the local Irish pub where all the groups gathered for a night of singing and dancing...

Heidelberg Tour

This was my 4th time in Heidelberg. This time with someone who actually knows its history and he explained the sites well. Heidelberg still one of my favourite cities in Germany and I would recommend any visitor to Germany to stop by there.


The Darmstadt group at Heidelberg train station


On the Altebrueke with the European guys: Juha from Finland, Sarios from Lithuania and Jonny from Hungary.


Drinking the strongest beer in the world (33%) with Ilse and Adam