Coffee

With our grueling schedule, coffee is essential. And strangely, the coffee at Caux is horrible. You would think that being in Europe would guarentee decent coffee, but Caux serves this instant stuff that's nasty. Fortunately prior to the program, a friend of mine gave me some German coffee as a gift.

How many Caux Scholars does it take to make coffee? Apparently, a lot.

This here is a picture of this weird machine in the kitchen next to our classroom:
Behind it, you see four sets of colored instructions in four different langauges, one of which is, of course, English. Despite the instructions, despite days of trial and error, none of us can figure out how to make a decent cup of coffee from this machine! Much good German coffee has been sacrificed. So some of us resort to instant, and die hards like me resort to tea or coffee made from this giant cone filter drip thing. It works pretty well actually.