3rd Wk in Darmstadt

Merck






The Chef






Our dish, Spargel mit Hollandaise sauce, of coz there will always be a meat item that accompanies it.






The dessert of the day












Some printing block exhibition outside the printing museum in Mainz






Some modern artistic structure contrasting with the old church in the background





The main door of the church, there's some inscription on the door if we look closely.





The very nice inner cloister of the church.








Path leading to the catacombs, well.. you can try finding Andariel in there, lol.





The red signs leads to the river while the blue ones ran parallel to it, interesting.





The half meter long sausage!




Well... I kinda thought the 3rd wk was boring. The day we got back to school, we had an excursion to Merck in the afternoon. It was this pharmaceutical product production factory, no pictures were allowed in the compound and well... neither did I bother about taking pictures from outside. Seriously, I wasn't interested in that area maybe coz i'm just a mechanical engineer. The rest seemed very enthusiastic about it, keep asking questions and stuff.. and to me was.. zzzz. Well, the only thing good about it was, there was a tea reception... lol, the cakes were alright, but the tea there was... well.. maybe i didn't really know how to appreciate them. Ended up mixing 3 different tea bags into a cup. LOL. They all taste like crap anyway, might as well right... haha.
On wed, we had a cooking lesson. We had the cooking lesson in a hospital, what a weird place. Guess wad, more spargel.... zzz.. I've had a lot in my host family and now we are gonna cook more spargel??! Spargel with hollandaise sauce is what the Germans like, totally not my interest. Well, anyway, we were like specially brought there to learn how to cook this dish... so as always... for show... i'll just say its good to the chef and stuff - like i always do. Well... sadly, i do not have photos for this event as well, too lazy to take out my camera n cook at the same time ya noe. Well... of coz I can get pics from my friends but then again, i think i'm getting lazier by the day - Even changing my hard drive coz my pics are in the other one, its such a chore keep plugging my hard drive in and out ya.
Lastly for the weekdays, we went over to Mainz. Another city in the vicinity of Darmstadt. From what I remember, we were brought there to look at the river Mainz, some architecture stuff, a museum (forgot what the name was, some bible printing and originality thingy - printing museum i guess.) and to try the brewery over there. It didn't really leave a strong impression on me other than the street signs. Coz there were red and blue signs and i think the red signs led to the river while the blue ones ran parallel to the river, so as to facilitate putting out of fire in the olden days, interesting. Oh, and and that buildings around the churches were left intact as the olden day bombers needed the tall churches for navigation purposes so they couldn't destroy their only ground feature, lol, reminds me of looking out for ground features when I was flying, they call it visual flying. Hence you can see a lot of old buildings in Germany surrounding old churches. Well, we ended our day with a dinner at a brewery in Mainz. The half meter long sausage is what we ordered - we didn't expect the sausage to be curled up really, was thinking of how else they were gonna serve such a long sausage, it didn't really look that 'wow' on the plate anyway.