Week leading to break

Personal: 

After school and AIB activities had finished up for the week, I got to see my parents on Friday. They had just landed in Frankfurt as my classes finished then got to Bonn a few hours later and were noticeably exhausted from the over night flight. Still though, I got to show them around Bonn for a bit then the next day cologne. It was really odd seeing them for the first time in a few months so far away from home. Then we ventured to Munich and took some day trips around that region. We first went to Garmisch and hiked around then took a cog wheel train to the peak of the highest mountain in Germany. This was the first snow I had seen this entire semester. It made all of us wish we had rented skis as this was why most people were there. We also took a tour of some castles outside of Munich in the Neuschwanstein area. Our tour guide was very funny. Half way to the first stop, the bus started slowing down and her super calm and happy voice came on the speakers "excuse me, I have something to tell you. Our bus is broken. We will now wait on the side of the road for the next bus... All drinks are now free".

AIB:

A lot of work was done on the Ottobock project this week. Our groups of three came up with some pretty solid initial ideas. We presented these in front of each other and our professors in power point form and all of them seemed well received. Unfortunately, though our Skype with one of the Ottobock engineers showed us that Ottobock's expectations were headed down a slightly different path than some of our ideas so a lot of us got pretty discouraged after the Skype. Another presentation was set for the next day. This presentation was much more encouraging as our group got past the previous days discouragement and came up with new ideas or adjusted their old to fit the goals of the project better. We still have a lot of work to do but it was nice to see everyone rally back and continue being smart and great.