Sara Furtwaengler

Hello to the AutoCom Team

I loved reading all your postings on interns@autocom. For someone who does not know you yet it seems like you are all one big family. I like that.
Why am I writing on this blog? I want to become an intern at AutoCom. I just arrived in Michigan two months ago. My hometown in Germany is Heilbronn next to Stuttgart, but the last six years I studied in Konstanz, which is really in the south of Germany, directly at the border to Switzerland (at the swabian sea). I am 27 and my stay in Michigan will be my second US stay. I studied one year in Oregon, which made me love the US and convinced me to come back. Why Michigan? Because Markus, my husband, works in the automotive business…and well, you know that Metro Detroit is an automotive paradise…so to speak.

Some of the things former interns wrote seem already familiar to me. I know about the beautiful downtown area in Royal Oak, where it is a lot of fun to go out at night and where –very surprisingly- you meet a lot of Germans. I also know that you find thousands of really good restaurants in Metro Detroit. Markus and me went up north for a short vacation and fell in love with the beautiful landscape. I of course have not experienced winter in Michigan yet (what everybody told us is a good thing, since this winter must have been a tough one), and I am looking forward to a hopefully nice summer that I expect to be long long long….much longer than a German summer…which is not hard to compete.

We found a really nice place to live in Royal Oak and we met so many nice people. The last month we spent a lot of time at IKEA, but now we are fully equipped and ready to get started. Everything seems perfect. I love my new home and am eager to discover Michigan and Metro Detroit in more detail. What I am still missing is a nice work place with nice people and a fulfilling work to do. I hope I will find that within your firm and hope to meet some of you very soon…can’t wait…

Sara

Comments

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