Interns@AutoCom

Hi AutoComers, Thank you very much for the nice Christmas card you sent me. I was so happy when I got it and I thought back to my wonderful time in Michigan. I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas time with good food (unfortunately too much food for me in the last days) and leisure time with your family. I don’t know why, but the time before Christmas is always stressful for me. Lot’s of stuff to do for university, I have to get presents for friends and family and everybody is celebrating the coming Christmas days with parties or at the Christmas market in Stuttgart. But at least when it’s December 24th everything is ok and it’s time to relax and to write something for the AutoCom blog ;-) I know I’m a little bit late…. When I moved back to Germany I started the 5th semester at the university and also a new part-time job at a marketing agency in Stuttgart called “Seyther Kommunikation” ( http://www.seyther-kommunikation.de/ the web site is unfortunately only in German). It is tot

Hey AutoComers, First of all I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a wonderful time with your family and friends! How have you all been? I moved back to Cambridge this fall to continue my last year of studies. I was really really happy to be a student again after working for a year, especially after my pretty stressful internship at BMW…. And now I want to work again J never right the way it is… Life in Cambridge is fun. I live with 4 roommates and we share a flat very close to the city center and University. So this year we can actually walk places and didn’t have to buy bikes again… (yea mine was unfortunately gone after a year and a half left in the city center all by itself chained to a post) There has not much been going on lately, I have only been writing assignments for the last 8 weeks, my final year is very busy. Between my second internship and University, I got a job at Continental as a working student for a month in the sales department for Motorcycle ABS. It was good e

Hohoho! Santa Claus is coming tonight! After three weeks of Christmas music, Christmas lights and Christmas candy it’s time to write about this amazing time and about some differences between American X-Mas and German “Weihnachten”. In Germany, the Christmas time starts around December 1st with our advent calendar. It’s actually for kids to pass time of waiting until Christmas Eve. There is a Christmas picture with 24 little windows with each a number on it. Children open one window every day and find a piece of chocolate, a Christmas picture or a poem. In addition to the Advent calendar, you can find an Advent wreath in most homes, which is made out of bound fir twigs and four candles on the top. We start by lighting one candle the first Sunday in December and continue throughout the month each Sunday. The last candle is lit on Christmas Eve or the last Sunday before Christmas Eve. Typical German is the “Weihnachtsmarkt”, (Christmas market). The market place is full of booths and sta

Hey AtuoCom Staff, now it's more than a month ago that I left. I think I settled down again in Germany...! I just want to give you a little update. Really a lot happened in one month....! First of all....of course all my friends and my family were so happy that I am back. I still don't know what to answer, when the others are asking how I liked my 6 month in the US. Most of the time I just say great , because it would take forever to tell everything. Even showing all my pictures is too much for my friends. I have more than 2000 pics :-) One of my best friends. My other best friend is just in Rome and I can't wait to see her for Christmas! As u perhaps know I am living in Düsseldorf now, which is really famous for marketing and model agencies. After applying for some jobs I got quickly the first job offer. A really nice agency with a lot of fun clients. U see some of them in the picture. I am now working in the Daimler Team; project management is my new work field. I am s

HI AUTOCOMERS! Here are some pics of my trip to Honolulu, Hawaii (the paradise city!)… ...where the most beautiful beaches are! I spent 10 days (9/17-9/26) in Hawaii with a friend of mine who lives in Honolulu. The flight took me more than 24 hours… You can assume that as soon as I was in Hawaii I fell asleep. But the next morning the beaches were waiting for us! We went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay and Waimea Beach. It was awesome. Hanauma Bay is gorgeous! Believe it or not. There is crystal-clear water, big palm trees and this is for all girls who want to travel to Hawaii: Guys in Hawaii are sooo cute. At Waimea Beach we saw fish, very colorful as in the movie Finding Nemo! It was amazing to see all the different kinds. I’ve never seen so many colorful fish in nature! Unfortunately, we didn’t see sea-turtles. On Sunday we went to a pineapple plantation. Did you know that pineapples grow on the ground? Neither did I! But they do and it looks very interesting! On Monday we hiked on an ol