Hi! It’s me
again. This is a quick post in the mix of my larger Italy trip posts. We are
now back in Graz. Everything is good and we are going take it easy for at least
a couple of days. I will keep posting the Italy trip events every few days and
hopefully in a week or so I have all of the posted.
Today we broke
our recovery from our travels with a visit to the town hall or Rathaus of Graz.
There we attended a welcome reception held by the mayor of Graz. It is a
tradition that mayor holds twice a year to welcome the incoming exchange
students. All the exchange students gathered in the rathaus and listened to the
mayor give a speech. It was a nice speech where he told us that his daughter
was doing exchange studies somewhere and she had felt that the city didn’t
welcome the exchange students well enough. This made the mayor of Graz decide
to start personally welcoming incoming exchange students to Graz. There were
also a few speeches from people from the university and two students got to
tell their experiences so far. After the speeches we got to visit the balcony
of the town hall which gives a great view of the main square and Schlossberg.
Then we got some food and drinks and headed home. It was a good experience and
always fun to see the other exchange students and to hear how they are doing.
That is all for this post, the Italy posts will resume in a day or so. See ya.
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| Town hall |
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| The Rathaus was beautiful inside as well |
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| Mayor giving his speech, we were on the balcony so we didn't see too well |
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| One of my favorite pictures of the whole trip |
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| Gotta take a bite out of the free food |
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