Today we visited the University of Augsburg and created and presented preliminary presentations on our companies with the German students. My company is GROB-Werke, a company that produces products for creating autonomous assembly lines. The Augsburg campus was gorgeous. It had lots and lots of green space and natural plant life. We even saw the campus cat on the way in! We ate lunch at the dining hall with the other students, which was a very confusing experience given that none of us could actually read German very well, so we often had no idea what we were picking up. After lunch we got a short campus tour and started off on our scavenger hunt.
The hunt took us all around the city looking for the answers to our clues.

We visited Der Dome and St. Lyric u Afra. We also walked along the Maximilianstrasse and stopped at various statues, buildings, and fountains. I absolutely loved getting to explore the city, but there were some nerve racking times when we would have to ask an Augsburger for assistance answering a question or taking a picture. The people were evidently not used to being approached on the street so it made for some interesting conversation. We eventually made it to our last stop on the hunt, which was a beer garden. We tasted three different beers. I found that I preferred the lighter ones over the darker.

From the beer garden, we walked over to a little Italian restaurant called Dragone which, of course, had a dragon on the sign out front. I tried Spietzi for the first time (a mix of Fanta and coke) and got a margarita pizza to eat. I loved the Italian feel of the restaurant as it combined with the German culture. I particularly noticed this in the fluid switching from German to Italian. After dinner, we headed back to the hotel and got a little lost, but google maps ultimately helped us get there. Later in the evening, after procrastinating writing this blog post, a group of us decided to go to Pool City, a bar and pool room down the street from the hotel. We played pool (which we were very bad at) and had a good time talking and bonding.