Put on your Adventure hat

The past two days have included many great adventures around Leipzig!

Yesterday was a good work day for all of our teams. We had time both in the morning and all afternoon to get some things accomplished for our project. The clock is starting to tick on our project so we all made time lines for the next two weeks!

For lunch, Sylvia and I had our first adventure. After the Hong Kong Bistro incident, we were both a little hesitant to try Asian food again, but we decided to try out the Vietnamese Asia Bistro. The menu was almost impossible to read and the lady cooked the food on a tiny grill in front of us, but this adventure definitely payed off! It was AMAZING, and we will return frequently I'm sure!

After a hard day's work, we decided to attend a local Bach Concert, outside the ThomasKirche (The Church where Bach worked), in the City Center. Despite bouts of rain, we enjoyed an amazing concert while sipping some coffee and hot chocolate, and Eating the world's most amazing chocolate cake from the Bachstueb'l, a nearby cafe.

cappuccino

Laura's Amazing Apple Streusel

After the concert we adventured in search of the student life or a local band. We went to a recommended local hangout, but it appeared that there was a Gothic concert going on, so we opted for another option. We found a restaurant out in the middle of a Huge park, called the Glas Haus. We ordered our new favorite German snack, Pommes!

Eating our Pommes!

Today has been a whole new adventure! It was another big workday for the groups. My group went on a long search to find the city hall. This is what we found first...

This is the Court house, not quite town hall, but we were getting warmer...

This is a Fox we saw in a parking lot on our quest for the Townhall! Crazy!
Finally, we found it

Once there, my group experienced the language barrier in full force today. We were trying to figure out how to get a permit for the Eagles to set up an exhibition in the City Center. However, the lady helping us completely misunderstood our request, even though we used mostly German, and she eventually gave us directions to the Eagle's stadium. Defeated we went home, but learned valueable lessons in the differences between German/American culture, and also the difficulty of doing business with a language barrier.

This afternoon, Laura and I stumbled upon a HUGE market that apparantely only comes twice a week! I bought some fresh strawberries and bell peppers and Laura got all the incredients for some amazing fresh pasta, yum!
at 4, our group went for a tour of the DHL corporation. They workers all work from 9PM to 6AM! It was cool to see the incredible technology that allows thousands of packages to be scanned, sorted, and sent out in a matter of 24 hours in many cases. It's brilliant!

Yes, we actually had to wear these awesome vests on our tour

Our final adventure of the day was actually a Safari...to dinner! Some of the boys saw a safari places for dinner, and asked if we were going to take the journey. Well of course we can't say not to an adventure! Grant, Colin, Sterling, and Branson all ordered mystery foods, and liked them. I suspect Grant will be returning again because he LOVED his dinner. Miriam and Lindsey ordered Ostrich meat with vegetables for dinner, and Sylvia and I split Antelope meat! It was amazing.

Antelope Meat, topped with some sweet potatoe fries!

Luckily, dinner included some awesome authentic African Entertainment.
This guy sang Authentic African chants, complete with animal noises, drums, and tribal dances! It was a fun, entertaining dinner!

We hope to keep the adventures coming the next couple days, while working hard on our project. it is going to get harder over the next couple weeks as we approach crunch time, so remember us in your thoughts and prayers!

We appreciate all your comments, prayers, and support!

Love,
Jenny