Today we started off our day with our first site visit to
SGL, which is a carbon fiber company that is located in Meitingen. We had breakfast
at the hotel, where Sonia and the Germany students met up with us to take the
coach bus to SGL. Since this was our first site visit of the trip I didn’t really
know what to expect, but I was really curious to find out. When we first got
there we were escorted to a big lecture room that had huge class windows. What I
noticed about the building itself was how modern it was, from the way it was
design to the technology used. After the lecture we took a tour of the factory
where they used labs and equipment for product development where they would
test the different fibers. The tour itself involved a lot of labs, which got a
little dry towards the end of the tour but was really interesting once you were
able to see the finished products. We saw products such as golf clubs, chairs, car
door, and this object that they used to manufacture which would use electrodes
to melt down steel, when steel was more of a prominent business for them. At the
end of the tour the provided us with lunch where I had bacon covered chicken
and pasta with broccoli, which was delicious. It was very nice to see that SGL
took a lot of time out of there day to provide us with a very informational and
organized visit.
After our
visit we stopped at the hotel to change out of our business clothes and then
headed down to town hall to listen to a lecture on migration in Germany. The part
that I thought was the most interesting is when the women addressed how people
are able to get citizenships in Germany. Directly following that we took a tour
of the Grand Hotel, which was my favorite part of the day. Basically this hotel
has 6 floors with the top two being a normal hotel, middle two housed refuges and
the bottom two floors were hostiles. The unique thing about this “hotel” it isn’t
just an ordinary hotel. First thing is all of the rooms are painted extremely creative
and designed very cool. Pictures following show some of the rooms but my
favorite was a hostile room that was shaped like a tree house. The floor had a
cobble stone path and the beds were like a tree house.
After the
Grand Hotel, we had the rest of the night free to do whatever we wanted, so all
of the kids went out to eat to Konig Von Flandern, a traditional Bavarian restaurant
where I order sausages and sauerkraut. Later on that night we all hung out
together with the German students at a fake beach on a rooftop which was pretty
awesome. End of day 3 and I am very tired but still having an amazing time! So grateful for all of the new friends and relationships I have made so far.
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