Audi, Bad Wimpfen and the Easter weekend

Last weekend the school took us on a trip to  the Audi factory in Germany. We got to see how cars were put together from beginning to end and it was really cool to walk through the factory and see how everything works. We walked through the Audi R8 factory and it was crazy to see that everything on that car is hand welded and hand assembled, with the exception of one or two robots. We also got to walk through a different factory and see how the "cheaper" cars were almost entirely assembled by robots. The craziest thing was to see how extremely accurate these robots were, and its almost impossible for me to figure out how you would program a machine to do such intricate work. I tried to sign a lease and get a car to take home with me but they weren't havin' it :(. Maybe in a few years haha.
After we saw the Audi factory, we went to a small renaissance town near by called Bad Wimpfen where we had lunch and walked around for a while. The town was surrounded by a wall, just like you would picture any renaissance castle or town, and it was so pretty. They had a huge extravagant church (what Germany city doesn't have one of those) and watch towers that you could climb up to look over the whole town.All in all that was a fun day, and it got us out of class so I can't complain too much!

With the exception of an exam, we have only had one day of class this week and we are leaving for Berlin tomorrow for just under a week. Needless to say, life in Germany is rough! This last weekend has been pretty laid back. The town has been closed on friday, sunday and today for Easter celebrations. We did get to get out of town on thursday to see Würzburg a bit, and then saturday to see a little bit of Heidelberg.(some pics below). This whole weekend we have been lucky to have 70 degree days, so even just being stuck in small ol' Bad Mergentheim hasn't been too bad. For Easter Sunday some of us headed to the Luthren Church for Easter service. Even though it was all in German and we couldn't understand the entire message, it was still a good experience and on the upside, only lasted just over an hour. We were afraid it would last like two hours or so. After church, we packed up some food and hiked up the hill for an American style BBQ with hamburgers and steaks. It was an unorthadox Easter, but enjoyable none the less. Today is yet another relaxing day around town, and tomorrow we will be taking a bus trip to Berlin until Saturday night. We have plenty of museums and various things planned (the trip is with the school so they planned some stuff for us) and hopefully some free time to explore and do stuff on our own.

Wurzburg pics: