Interns@AutoCom

I can’t believe that five months have already passed since I began my internship at AutoCom Associates. I was so excited about the people that I would meet, the work experience I would gain, and especially, the insights I would accumulate about the American culture.  I learned a lot in my time at AutoCom Associates and I met extremely nice individuals. I especially recall the fun that I had while sharing an office with my coworker, Emily. She was my age and we shared a lot of laughs. Overall I learned that it is important to have fun, but don’t lose sight of your obligations at work. I think Emily and I quickly developed a good balance between work and play. Emily taught me a lot about the American lifestyle and helped me to improve my language skills. Sometimes she found it hard to explain words but she was persistent, and I eventually got the hang of it. It was funny that she couldn’t always believe I didn’t know some of the ‘slang’ words. But we joke because I know

New York is one of the cities we have always wanted to get to know, since it is one of the most famous in the world. We were really excited when we started our trip to the airport, very early on Friday morning. When we finally arrived in New York   we checked-in to the hotel very early , so that we still had the whole day to explore the huge city and all it had to offer. Our hotel was in a nice neighborhood and really close to many famous places. This gave us the possibility to walk almost everywhere all weekend long. That was also how we started that Friday morning, getting to know probably one of the most famous spots in all of New York we took the 10 minutes’ walk to ‘Times Square’.  Fascinated by that amazing place, we got even more excited getting to know the City a lot more to offer. Eating some chocolate in the famous M&M’s and Hersey’s stores we had new energy to become acquainted with the ice skating rink at Bryant Park and to visit the theat