Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Katy here.

We all had an amazing last week!! I had a great host family and spent most of the time with Werner, his wife (Anna) is a headmistress at a high school and she was very busy during the week. And as if my brain hadn't had enough of a workout in the past 3 weeks, Werner challenged me with more mind games, chest tournaments, and other brain exercises.


One of our free days, Joseph's host Richard took me to Munich to see the re-development of a secrete American Base. They have made it into a sustainable plus energy development. It has residential including a hotel, offices and of course a pub. Their design can supply energy to all these buildings and give back to the gird. Although I don't think Australia uses the word 'sustainable' in the same sense as their production of energy is from solar and burning of wood pellets.

After that we went into Munich where we had white sausage and pretzel. They also peel their sausages here.

We have been to Marklin (the toy trains) where they make screws 1.2mm long and Schuler where they make cogs much taller than us!!!

We have also seen the Kasier Brewery and were allowed to pour our own beers out of the 21 000L tank....



They supplied us with dinner too. This is a typical Swabian dinner (This is what we had most nights). There are no greens, usually just meat and some carbohydrate. We've brought home a Swabian cooking book if anyone wants to try....


On the final night we went to Maintag a German festival, which was crazy. You're allowed to dance on the tables here!!! Everyone is on a table so i don't understand why they have tables and why they don't move them out and we all stand on the floor. It would be much safer.


To get a drink you cant approach the bar, but have to flag down one of these lady's. She does so well remembering what everyone wants and where you were standing.


It is very sad that our GSE experience has come to an end. It all went too quickly.

We would all like to thank Rotary International for supporting such a program along with our home district and exchange district. We would like to give a special thanks to all our German host families and everyone that made our time so special. We all appreciate the experience and will endeavour to stay in touch.

Our blog will continue to be updated with more info on our GSE group activities when we return to Australia.....
so stay posted!!