Photos from HAW Welcome Week

As promised . . . here are the pictures from our activities this week.  Fun times!

Me before the Meet & Greet

The Art/Design & Engineering students at the Meet & Greet (I'm in the back row,  just right of center)

Playing a sort of musical-chairs game at the Meet & Greet

Playing "meet as many people as you can" at the Meet & Greet

More of the same game

The International Students at the start of the scavenger hunt in front of Dammtor Station.  (I'm on the right side, between the people wearing the red scarves.)

"Team Schneller" at the start of the scavenger hunt

Europa Passage, the fanciest "galleria" mall on the Mönckebergstraße

In America they carve their initials into trees.
In Europe they lock their names onto bridge railings!

Stairs leading down to the Alte Elbtunnel, which runs underneath the Elbe River

Alte Elbtunnel

Team Schneller at harbor side . . . we had lost 3 team members by then.

Bowling!

Me, Siru (Finland), Hendrik (one of the HAW tutors), Tiina (Finland), Mona (another tutor), Carissa, Kaitlyn, and Elisha (USA), and Ninni (Finland) at our bowling outing with the Hamburg flag

Elisha has her own special bowling method . . . and it works pretty well!

Ninni, Siru, Carissa, Elisha, Tiina, and me

Ninni, Kaitlyn, Carissa, Siru, Elisha, and Tiina

Feeding frenzy at the International Potluck!!!!

Somehow I ended up sitting with American students at the potluck . . .

Delicious potluck food from all over the world! (That's elk meat in the center . . . they eat it in Finland and it is GOOD!)

Outside the Rathaus before our tour

Being silly in the Rathaus

St. Petri Kirche from the Rathausmarkt.  That's St. Jacobi further in the background.

All ready for our harbor trip on the ferry!

Petra (my next-door-roommate) and her fellow Canadian, Dani

Front of the Rathaus

Inside St. Petri Kirche

Inside St. Jacobi Kirche

Me in the Rathaus sub station, next to the Hamburg icon.