Trip to Hamburg 2013

Thursday, 18.04
This day was used to start writing the reports. Our group worked very well with the corresponding energy group in Hamburg. We finished our tasks and used good time to write about what we had experienced the day before, both when it comes to the experience and when it comes to learning. This day was also used for another excursion. On the agenda today, was the large port in Hamburg. Hamburg has one of the largest ports in the world. It was very cool and stylish to see how this great port was driven and how everything was organized. Tens of thousands of containers were stacked and placed in different sections. The containers, all coming from different parts of the world, showed us how enormous this port is.
In the evening we all went to a cozy restaurant where most of us got to taste the German specialty, Currywurst.

A small part of the port in Hamburg

Trip to Hamburg 2013

Wednesday 17.04
This was our first excursion. The Energy Group and the waste group traveled by bus out to a waste incineration plant and a biogas plant. There we were met by a guy who told us about the general waste combustion in Hamburg and how this system worked. It was very interesting and exciting to see how it worked.
After a short tour around the plant came another man who told us about biogas and how the process of biogas works. It was also this time a tour around the biogas plant. Despite the extremely bad smell, it was fun and exciting. New experiences and new information!

At the waste incineration plant and the biogas plant. Photo: Hjalmar, Johannes and Vegard.
Photograph: Riad

Trip to Hamburg 2013

Tuesday, 16.04
Around 12 o'clock we arrived Hamburg city. Martina, the German teacher was meeting us at the airport. She seemed very nice and after some talking we traveled to Heinrich Hertz-Schule to meet the German students that we were going to spend the next 10 days with.
As soon as we arrived and met them, every student, both Norwegians and Germans had to present themselves.
We then met our partners and then we went down to the cafeteria for lunch. After a couple of hours at school, we went home to our host families.