A Nano Adventure in Venezia

A Routine Day in Venice

So what's it really like living in Venice and going to school? Well, have a look. First I walk along the boardwalk to catch the vaporetto (ferry). Our stop is called Palanca.

Here's the gang of us going to the ferry.

Here's the view from the ferry to go to the main station Piazzale Roma.

Here's our class....can you tell who's our professor?

On a lab tour at the Nanofabrication facility. We got a talk about Power Press Metallurgy using a combination of micro and nano powders to make metal products, which are stronger than the normal melting and molding process. And they use significantly less energy and tools to create them. The woman in brown was the Bulgarian researcher explaining the process.

Heading to the moon in our spacesuits! No..just going into a 10,000 clean room..which means that 10,000 particles are allowed in the room. So it's really not that clean, but good enough for us students.

Here's a small canal in front of our residence building.

A view of the Residence (Ex)-Junghans...that's what they officially call it since it used to be called that..but they haven't renamed it yet.

This is my part of the residence. My room has the 2 windows on the top floor to the right.

The local Coop grocery store where we pick up groceries for our dinners! And they pronounce it "Coawp".

Hanging our laundry out to dry. No....not really..we have washing machines and dryers to wash our clothes.

And finally, here's a picture of my small room...it' not bad...I use my window sill as a natural refrigerator for some food. One time, I believe a seagull was hungry and grabbed my bag of food!! Not kidding. Another incident was when the heater broke down...it was so cold..I slept my 2 layers of clothes!

posted by Suanne Tse @ 8:01 AM