Prof Christoph's Visit!

It was really nice for Prof Christoph (our ETH Environmental Sanitation Professor) to contact Matthias that he would be coming down to Singapore for the World Toilet Summit, and therefore asked if he could meet up for dinner. It was initially supposed to be a day plan, but unfortunately, there was some misread of his schedule and thus, it was changed to dinner. Nonetheless, it was really a good time of meeting up and a wonderful opportunity and privilege to be able to be personal with our very own professor from Switzerland!

We thus tried to our best ability to plan out something nice and memorable for him to remember Singapore and to take home to Switzerland. So it started out with a nice stroll at East Coast Park, a widespread of local dishes at the hawker centre, a stopover at the marina barrage to see Singapore's night skyline, and then a drive through Orchard Road to see the Christmas lightings. It was simple, yet i think a great experience for him we hope. We enjoyed ourselves throughly, trying to play a good tour guide by giving him some historical background of Singapore. Christoph has a really friendly disposition, and we enjoyed his presence very much. We had a great time just chatting and talking at a personal level. Thank God for this wonderful meet-up.

It was a great pleasure for us both to be given this opportunity and we sincerely hope he enjoyed himself tonight. He said he would bring his wife and son down one day, and we hope to be able to meet up then and bring them around to more places. My other half has been a really good host today! :)

And that's our prof! (2nd from the left, with a broken nose back then when he went hiking)