Wednesday, August 1st - VKS and the First Group Dinner

Wednesday... A great day of the week. So this Wednesday started out with a nice late start, plenty of sleeping in for the lazy. Or, for the more motivate, a trip to the Oost Market. Which I hear was a lot of fun (I was in the former of the two categories). In the afternoon we went to VKS (Virtual Knowledge Studio) to learn all about the facility and a few of the projects that were going on there. Paul Wouters, along with two of his colleagues gave great lectures on their fields of study and a few projects they were working on.




After the lectures were over we all headed back to the dorms for a break prior to dinner. Sathi and I chose to walk the whole way back, and encountered a few cute pygmy goats. AWESOME.



We also go to pass by a good share of cool and small cars. That rocked too. For anyone who doesn't know, there is a infinitely larger selection of TINY cars here, like the SMART car, there are also tiny little cars made by many other manufacturers and tiny trucks as well... But don't worry, the people are normal sized. In fact, the dutch are Giant people, with an average height of something like 5'10".



After a short session of relaxing and maxing, we headed out to dinner as a group, which was totally Klumpy. The food was REALLY good, and it was nice to have a dinner as a group. You may see the video clip of Clifford giving a toast here, and hopefully it isn't sideways... if it is, I'll fix that soon. On the other hand, the food did take forever to get to us, so I guess that was NOT klumpy. Dinner was like a marathon... one that you were destined to lose... in last place. It took almost 4 hours to finish. But to the restaurant's credit, their kitchen was VERY small, and the waiter was very nice, helpful, and understanding. Luckily, we had only been together for a week or so, so we were all able to put up with each other for the whole dinner. After dinner, I personally went home, and slept the night away... it was awesome.