Day 2 - The meaning of being intercultural

Day 2 started with a big breakfast at 8:15. After that Hans Tubbax (one of the belgish organizers) picked us up at 9:00 and lead us to the building which is our workplace for the next two weeks. We were introduced to the school, a participating company and the project. The school gave us guest student card so we were able to use the computers and Toledo, some kind of groupware. We also were seperated in several teams. Every Team consists of one student from each school. At the end there were 10 multi-national teams with 6 members. An online personality test gave us the opportunity to find out what kind of person each one is. It was meant to help us forming the team. The next stop was lunch at 13:00. Soup, hot meal with meat and a dessert. What else do we need? It also tasted good of course. The program continued at 14:00 with another speech from Hans. The official part ended with a lecture given by our Prof. von Schwerin. The topic was Business Intelligence. Finally we made it through the first day. Some of us celebrated too much the evening before. And some of them even had less then 2 hours of sleep. So the next stop was the bed in the youth hostel. But this joy lasted only for one and a half hours. At 18:30 we met to prepare our german apperitif. There was a program in the evening for this day. Every team had to bring some typical food and drink from its country. Our german food was Leberkäs (some kind of german sausage), salami sausage, cheese and bread ("schwäbische Seele" and dark bread). And our german drink was Jägermeister, 3 bottles of it. The interesting fact was that every country brought a plenty of whine, beer and hard liquor. This was going to be a tough evening. Every Team had to present its food and drinks. After this little speeches the party started. As you can imagine the mood changed in a very short time. Almost everybody drank. There are 7 different schools. You had to drink at least 7 shots to taste all of them. Of course the most of us had to taste more than one drink. It was an amazing scene. Almost 60 students and professors... well, i think this is called intercultural. When all bottles were empty we had to change the location. We went to "de Planeet", a pub next to the youth hostel. After our arrival we made a club out of this pub. The lights were dimmed and the music turned louder. The party went on. The last people left around 5:00. Germany represented more then half of these people.
It was a fantastic day... how are we going to survive this INTENSIVE program?