2nd June; Dresden

I’ve finally arrived at my placement, which means that from now on my blogs should actually have something relevant to say. Dresden is a beautiful city on the Elbe with a population of 350 000 (I was told this by a man outside a pub so I may be wrong), and I am working at the Technische Universität Dresden, which has been around for 175 years. My day starts at 7:30 when I wake up and try to scrounge breakfast off my housemates (I haven’t yet bought any food). At about 8:30 I leave the house with my housemate Rob and we catch tram No. 4 into town. (An alternative route would be tram No. 6 into the town centre, but due to rush hour traffic this takes longer). At about 8:45 we reach the VW factory where we change onto tram No. 10, we reach Dresden Hauptbahnhoff at about 9:05 (technically we should be in work at 9:00, but I’m not very good at waking up). We then catch any Southbound bus and get off 2 stops later at the TU Dresden. We could also walk, but it’s generally quicker by bus. We stop for lunch at 11:30 (I know, strangely early, but strangely comforting that you only have about 2 hours of work in the morning), and leave work at 5 in the evening. So far work is interesting and I have also been exploring the bars of the new town (you can smoke inside some of them, which is rather nice). I have also eaten lots of chocolate cake. I have included a picture of tram No. 4 courtesy of http://www.trampicturebook.de/, although I think the picture is a bit old because the trams are mostly more modern looking than this now.