Went for my 1st morning run in Germany at 7.20am with Dayang and Yongwei :)
We met Prof and the group at 9.30 am after our exactly similar breakfast as yesterday and took the train from S to U and alighted at Universitat.
Universitat is where LMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität is located. Today was our first visit to the university and the dean is welcoming us by giving us an introduction in the morning.
We walked to the lecture hall and waited for everyone to settle down. We brought our big jackets along as we thought it would be freezing cold, but guess it got warmer as the sun was began shining above our head :) This is the summer that we are talking about!!!
We were given a LMU shirt, which is slightly small for the girls and extremely large for the guys, cause they run out of stock.
These are some pictures to show the surroundings and interior of LMU. It is really nice as it doesn't feel like a school but more like a musuem, very classy to be a student there :) Very different from our local universities, very modernised and high tech look.
The dean brought us for a stroll and also to the Mensa (school canteen) for our lunch.
On our way, I spotted a bicycle path for the cyclists in Munich. It is really interesting as most of the students travel around by bikes as the cos of public transport is pretty expensive for them. How i wish i could travel around in bicycle too, it is really a new experience for us. Furthermore, they can bring their bicycles on the train after the peak period.
We top up our Mensa card with 10 euros at the start of our 2 weeks in Munich, but u know what, we all got back pretty close to our cost or even more, some earn a profit too :P cos the card has a deposit to it, but as it was given to us by the university, we didn't have to pay the deposit but got to keep it :P
Took some photos while waiting for the rest to top up their cards too...
Queued up for our food, kinda of like prison- style....take a tray and choose what u want, hehe :P but of cos, the difference is, we have to pay for it :P
I chose this dish which I first thought was pork with some special sauce, but it happened to be a vegetarian dish, in jam sauce...something like pancakes ba, taste pretty nice though. Their coke tasted slightly different from Singapore's, I think it was nicer actually :) Oh ya, their bottles can be recycled and u will get a refund or 0.25 euros, depending on what kind of bottles, but that is pretty interesting, at least it makes everyone return their bottles...
We made a trip to Englischer Garten which is just a few minutes walk away from LMU. We came to the main attraction, Chinesischer Turm. It is actually the Chinese Tower. There were alot of people gathered around this area as there was FOOD!!! :P It is like a bier garden...Something like our hawker centre but with better atmosphere and with GERMAN BEER!!!
We had the pork knuckle as usual, because it is a MUST to eat when u are in Germany. We girls shared the pork knuckle and a chicken, not forgetting, our 1 litre beer :)
Cheers to our trip, it is such an amazing experience for us, even if it is just the beginning...
Oops...the cups were almost empty in the picture, hehe, we all became heavy drinkers le :P I brought back one as a souvenir as the deposit of the cup was just 1 euro, so...hehe, it is much cheaper than me buying a new cup ma, me cheapskate la... :D
We took our 1st bus ride to LMU, back to where we came from...as we were lazy to walk all the way back to LMU as we were kind of in the centre of the garden.
That's all for our 2nd day in Germany... :) Hope u enjoyed this post!
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