Team dinner > beer with LC members > metro

I guess I haven't introduced the concept of team dinners so far... let's do it now.

Team dinners
It's a great concept, sourcing from these presumptions:
- there is around 20 people working in the office during the most of the year
- they all need to eat something for their dinners
- they are coming from different parts of the world and don't know each other very well at the beginning
- they used to be students recently, they don't like spending 10€ per dinner (after spending the same money for lunch that day)



Voila! Team dinners are here!
Four cooking teams (Mon-Thu), each one of them being responsible for preparing a dinner with drinks and a desert for the rest of people. It must be under 3€/person. You wouldn't believe how delicious meals you can do with such a budget!


Right after the team dinner, some people set off to join local members of AIESEC in Rotterdam at their regular "LC* drinks". AI members have been invited this time, so I was looking forward.
*LC = local committee of AIESEC, Rotterdam in this case

LC drinks
It's something similar to our "pub", in terms of the last point on our LC meeting's agenda. Actually it's pretty much the same... LC members get together, they drink beer and talk. What is more, it's held on Tuesdays, too. There are two main differences, quite major ones: the size of beer (see below) and the venue: whereas in Prague, we go to a pub and we sit, people here go to a club and they stand. Music (below-average disco quality) is playing loud all around the place (so maybe it slightly resembles "Krakora" 10 minutes before a closing time:)).
Despite the music, no one is dancing.
Because of the music, you can hardly chat with other people...
I just didn't get the point. Otherwise it was fain;-)

BEER - size, price, quality
Oh - my - god! :)
When I ordered a beer for the first time I thought they are kidding me! I got ready for lots of things (you can check them in this post), but nobody warned me they serve beer in shot glasses (0,15l). As I got to know later, 0,2l is more common, but that's not much better, he...;)
All in all, smaller amount wouldn't be such a problem if accompanied by lower price. And this is the second (and quite important) aspect which sucks! You pay 2,5€ for 0,2l. Or 5€ for 0,5l. Honestly, this is nasty! As a result, I don't drink beer so much here:(
Fortunately, local Heineken is a good beer. At least this.


Metro
On our way back, I realized I don't know that much about Rotterdam. OK, it's the city of architecture, as I tried to acknowledge in my previous post, but it has also a metro! The scheme is quite simple (sufficient for les than 600,000 people): 2 lines, first going from the south to the north, second one going from the east to the west, one changing station in the centre. Because I'm generally interested in metro systems, I didn't forget to take a picture...