Einstein Easter Eggsperts

Wednesday

As you may or may not be aware, Einstein's on Wednesday nights is for international students and if I'm not triapsing around Europe, I will usually end up here after korfbal training, attending an organisation meeting for the Leiden international Short Film Festival (LIsFE), or a get-together with the student mentors. The bar/daytime restaurant is named after Leiden's most famous resident academic. In fact, Einstein himself worked in the law building which I now attend.

This Wednesday, on the occasion of Easter, there was a special Easter egg hunt, whereby if one finds one of the 40 hidden Easter eggs placed around Einstein, one is entitled to a free drink.

While my friends were vainly looking for eggs and found perhaps only a few, on this particular day I was particularly lucky in finding 5 eggs, and as karma for giving 3 away, kicked one with my foot in a packed bar. I even spotted the egg hanging from the lamppost on the street, but by the time we made our way outside, the egg had mysteriously disappeared.

However, the award for Eggspert goes to Andrea and her German ingenuity. As you probably may not be aware, Einstein, towards the back, has a very high ceiling, lavishly decorated to harmonise with the Einstein motif of the place (with portraits of Einstein hanging everywhere and physics books lining the walls). Hanging there high out of reach was a single egg - a seemingly unobtainable goal.

After we had all exhausted our ideas, Andrea found, leaning behind a fireman's hose, a long pole with a hook at the end. With it, she weaved through the crowd and onto a table. After seeing the ridiculous sight of a long pole waving back and forth from within the crowd, we applauded as Andrea later emerged victorious with the egg. Kudos.