It was a lovely night out yesterday as it was an annual dinner organized by my faculty for its graduate students and its soon-to-be graduates. I am one of the soon-to-be grad .

Held at the Eichbaum Brewery House (Eichbaum Brauhaus), I didn’t realize that there was quite a big turn out of ex-students and some of my former classmates were also there. It was really nice to see some familiar faces again and also to meet some ex, ex, ex students that I never met before. The dean of the faculty was there and also many of my profs. Too bad I don’t have any pictures for the night because I forgot to bring my camera!!

The food was nothing to brag about. I wasn’t that hungry anyway but I ordered a Flammkuchen sort of a German pancake the size as big as a normal pizza with some ham, onions and some spinach with gorgonzola cheese. The first few slices was really tasty but after 3 slices I was full due to the added cheese and I ended up having gastric because I was too full!!

I was thinking with whom I’ll be sitting next to at the dinner table on the way to the restaurant but didn’t realized I ended up sitting next to the former dean of the faculty who really has an amicable character. I attended his lecture once during my first semester. It was funny listening to him recounting his funny stories during his teaching profession and his overseas experience as a guest professor at universities all over the world.

At one point he was saying:

he : there’s a lack of women in germany

me : but that’s not true..i think there are at least as many women as men in germany.. ( me confused alrdy) .. maybe there’re few women who study engineering in germany..

he : yes ..that’s why we import them ..

me: ???

Then it dawned on me that he was referring to me and the lack of involvement of women in engineering field in general. I think it’s true somehow. The aren’t a lot of German women who work as engineer in Germany. Engineering is long known as a male dominated field especially in this country. Sometimes I felt a little conspicuous as I was the only female in lecture. Well, it’s not bad though, at least you can get quite some attention from the lecturer.

Sigh..I missed my uni days.