Today, we travelled to the small town of Delft and walked around its city center. It was a very charming, small Dutch town with many canals and side streets, but also with a lot of history. We saw their church, town hall, and center square, and shopped at local shops, like a family cheese store [...]
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Logan Lippert- Day 9 Rotterdam
Today, we started by going to Erasmus University just outside of Rotterdam, where we had another collaborative university session with some of their students. After listening to a lecture about the oceans and international policies, we shared our thoughts about whether certain institutions are adequate enough to accommodate peaceful world trade. After that, we enjoyed [...]
Logan Lippert- Day 8 Rotterdam
Today, we started with a bike tour of the port of Rotterdam, along with a few other historical parts of the city related to the port, following the progression of the different docks and ports over the span of the city's history. Seeing it on a bike allowed us to explore more of the city [...]
Logan Lippert- Day 7 Rotterdam
Today, we set off for Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, to begin the last phase of our trip. After several delays on the train and a long bus ride across the border from Düsseldorf, DE, we finally got to our hotel in the center of the city. The main activity for the day was a walking [...]
Logan Lippert- Day 6 Munich
Today, we started by going to the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, which was a very eye opening and saddening experience. Standing in the exact spots where horrific tragedies happened in history that we learned about in school was shocking, and gave me a better perspective on what happened. The biggest thing I took away [...]
Logan Lippert- Day 5 Munich
Today, we started with a walking tour of Munich, which included tons of really cool stops. One good stop was the English Garden, which had so many cool walking trails and lookout points, but also a river that has an artificial wave people surf on! It was interesting to hear the history of the surfing [...]
Logan Lippert- Day 4 Munich
Today, we started by heading to Allianz Arena, where we got a behind-the-scenes tour of the stadium! We were met by some of our friends from the university, which was cool, and we saw all the different parts of the area, like the VIP stands, press room, and team locker room. I liked hearing about [...]
Logan Lippert- Day 3 Munich
Today, we got to have a collaborative university session with Hochschule München, and meet some of the students who go there. It was really cool to be able to learn more about what they were studying, along with working on the case study with them and comparing what we've learned. We also got to tour [...]
Logan Lippert- Day 2 Stuttgart
Today, we got to tour two different major German automotive manufacturers: Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. It was really cool to be able to see the differences between a larger manufacturer like Mercedes-Benz, which makes vehicles in a more mass production style, vs. Porsche, who are more individual with every vehicle, putting a lot of work and [...]
Logan Lippert- Day 1 Stuttgart
Today, something I found surprising about German culture was how focused their infastructure planning was on arts and culture itself. Our tour guide described how there was an entire street built to house the different arts instiutions, museums, and schools, and I found that to be surprising. Throughout the tour, our tour guide also pointed [...]
