Austrian Dinner and the weekend

I know this is out of order but the Berlin post will come next ( I am currently uploading my photos as I type). After returning home from a very fun but exhausting trip. I had to dive right back into my project. However I knew the weekend would be busy due to an abundance of social events and work. For instance on Saturday night I partook in wonderful dinner prepared by my Austrian friends.

The prepared traditional Austrian food, like cooked cabbage, knödel, and a roast pork with potatoes. For dinner we had a traditional Austrian cake, strudel and a very yummy vanilla pudding sauce. It was all fantastic and I excitedly returned for seconds afterwords due to an abundance of knödel (basically a ball of bread and spices and other ingredients that is first boiled then bakes, similar texture to a matzah ball but different taste). The dessert was awesome as well, the warm vanilla sauce made the fruit cake melt and it was so very good. And to wash it all down with a cold Tuborg Golden Lady was a perfect dinner experience. 


After dinner we had some very intense ping pong action as Vincent and I formed an alliance and took on six others in the "running" ping pong game. 


Today I had yet another early morning working on my project. However I left early so I could catch the tail end of a brunch that was organized by the same group of people that had done the dinner. Luckily for me both events took place in my collegium. Even though I showed up about 2 hours late there was still some food left and it was all amazing. I dont think I have ever had such an unhealthy brunch but nevertheless it was still awesome. There was two types of banana bread, apple turnover, home made strawberry rhubarb jam( it was awesome), chocolate chip muffins, danish cinnamon cake, strawberry charlotte cake... you get the picture. And I had to sample all of them of course... So this weekend has been all about food or work but it was still a good one. This next week is gonna be a real hard work week as we try to get a most of the project finished because it is due in only 10 days