Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Last Lab Session - Coffee and Cake
Markus, who is darn good at solving problems during tutorials.
1st row: We were getting bored in the lab. To make life more interesting and to promote international interaction, my Italian lab partner, Marco suggested learning each other's language. There will be a sentence each time and we will take turn to translate them into our native language.
2nd and 3rd row: Around the lab where we work.
2nd and 3rd row: Around the lab where we work.
2nd row: Quentin (French course-mate); another cake; Hanna, Emelie and Me.
We're all enjoying this last coffee-and-cake.
The advanced chemistry course at Lund University has a tradition of a coffee-cake break at 1500 during every lab day. This makes senses since a lab day is long (0800-1500); the interaction and talking cock over coffee breaks the monotony of lab work.
There is also a list in which one can sign up to bring cake for the lab break one desired. I had mine last week and prepared a shake-and-bake cake. The form of the cake is too big and the cake turned out more like a brownie instead of being moist and soft. Over a lab course of 15 full days, we had a different cake each day. Not too fancy ones of course, but I can see that my European course-mates enjoy baking: trying out new recipes and some very good classic recipes. And everyone is looking forward to 1500 because (1) abt time to go home (2) seeing what cake is on the table.
Anyway, today is the last day which the class will gather at the lab (it's a clean-up day). To capture this moment of memory, I brought along the camera and started snapping! Oh yah, another thing I found out about my course-mates is that they're not camera-shy. This is a rather different behavior which my Singaporean friends. (Since this is a back-post, I will proof my point that Europeans are less camera-shy than Singaporeans once again in the Lundakarneval.)
I wonder if my Singaporeans course-mates will accept this concept of having a tea-break together during lab work days... Or are they workaholics?
# posted by William : 1:25 PM
