Labdag

After the international party the night before, I dragged my sorry but to Labdag ("labday"). This is a day of fun activities organized by people in the medical biology section of the UMCG, for the people in the medical biology section of the UMCG. Kind of a day for bonding outside of the lab.

The theme for this year was "around the world in a day". We started our day off on our bikes, towards a kind of retreat near the countryside. After an hour of teatime, we started the day of with a bang by getting african drumming lessons. In the pic is Maaike doing some fancy drumming. Maaike was also on the organizing committee.

After drumming, we did some painting. Half of us were split into 6 groups and each group got a canvas with a rough sketch drawn in. The trick was that each canvas was one panel that, when put together, the panels make up a whole painting. Pretty cool, actually. So we had to run from canvas to canvas and group to group and try to match colours of paint and stuff. I was responsible for the actual painting part. How nostalgic it felt! Though my paint protection gear was not so fashionable, as you can see.

(The full paintings are now on display near the front entrance of the UMCG for anyone that wants to check it out! You can also buy it for the low, low price of 300 Euros)

After lunch, we did chocolate making. This was a very tasty activity! We made truffles and chocolate art. You can see that I made a fairy with my chocolate. The wings are chocolate leaves. The fairy tasted really good, too. The coloured chocolate is flavoured like lemon, strawberry and white chocolate... Lekker...

Later we had a tapas feast and sat around some candles inside. Finally we dragged our butts back home because it was a Thursday and everyone had to work the next day.