Internship Complete – Time For Traveling

The last six days are over, my vacation begins. The last days were a further proof for it, time is flying by faster and faster. For my last day, Merle brought tasty classic Doughnuts to the office, which weren’t existing anymore shortly after lunch. Yummy :) Thanks again!!

Famous Doughnuts

I will definitely miss the AutoCom team, my work in the office and even the fact driving to Bloomfield through Woodward Ave every morning. It was a pleasure to meet you and to work with all of you together. Even on busy days, we had a great time and fun! Fortunately we didn’t have say good bye yet, because we will meet again for a final dinner in May, before I go back to Germany.

From right to left: Jack Ferry, Jack Harned, Denise Bell, Merle Lueckens and I - Owe you a picture with Larry ;)

One of my personal goals was to improve my English skills in meetings, while writing e-mails, during conference calls or just in short chats. But I was also trying to catch up special sentences, which were not usual or common for me or just sounded funny. Starting from “opening cans of worms” up to “nailing topics down” or “killing two birds with one stone”, you can find some of my favorite empty phrases and hilarious sentences below:

“They’re marching to their own drum.”; “He is running around with his hair on fire.”; “How are you?... I am living the dream!”; “Happy Friday”; “That’s kind of loosy goosy.”; “Then the little doggy is chasing his own tail!”; “Don’t be like stiff and staffy”; “That is completely dodo!”; “Google is wrong!”

As I took my vacation in the end of my internship, now I am able to travel a couple of days longer. I will start my little road trip in Toronto, plan to see the Niagara Falls and to visit Buffalo, Washington, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. Couchsurfing the country, I am looking forward to this next period in the U.S., to meet up again with extraordinary people who show me their way of life.

Bye bye for the moment – Maybe I will update with a final blog post, when I am back from my trip.

From now on our new intern Nikolas will update you about his experiences.

Comments

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