Interns@AutoCom

Hi guys! As we all know, Halloween is one of the most important holidays in America…for some (Dee) it’s even the most important one;) You could feel the excitement among people when Halloween came closer. Not only would your shopping experiences at Meyers and others turn out to be creepy…wandering around through shelves decorated with spiders and little witches, even if you drive down the streets of your neighborhood, you felt like visiting a Halloween museum. Since the Hella guys from Germany, Winfried and Steffen, have been in town during this sinister times, we were planning on discovering the real American Halloween spirit together. And so we did. We drove to a town called Romeo, North of Washington, where Steffen had read an article about a certain street where neighbors compete against each other with decorating their front yards. Actually, those owners did not only decorate their front yards but also their entire houses. They almost re-built them into castles and pirate ships. W...

Last weekend some friends invited me to the Michigan/Michigan State football game at the Big House in Ann Arbor. It is supposed to be the “game of the games” and I was really excited to go there. I left my home at 7:30 am and met my friends in Northville. At 9:00 am we started tailgating at the golf course in front of the Ann Arbor stadium. Tailgate parties have become popular in the United States as social gatherings events that take place in stadium parking lots before football games. One of my friends fit me with Michigan shirts. We had a great time, met lots of fun people, had good food and of course good drinks. Six hours later the game started. Since it was a very cold day, I couldn’t wait to stand close to some people. It was so crowded, almost every seat was taken. I was surprised how Michigan and Michigan State fans were seated together. In a German soccer game this would be impossible because of big fights between the fans. However in Ann Arbor the atmosphere was great and w...

Hey everybody! I’m the new intern at AutoCom Associates, and for the next six months I’m going to be part of your lovely family. So, who am I? My name is Doreen and I’m 24 years old. I study business administration with a major in marketing and tourism at the University in Rostock, Germany. Last November Larry invited me to an interview in Frankfurt, and two weeks after our meeting I was offered an internship. I’m sure you can imagine how glad I was when I heard this! I’m really grateful for having this opportunity, and I started to make plans for my stay in the US right away, because living here has always been a dream for me. Since then, October 9, 2008 has been the start date of a whole new phase in my life. After settling all matters, it took me more than 20 hours to land in Detroit, because I flew via London and Chicago. Tony picked me up at the airport and we drove to Royal Oak, where I moved into my new home and met my roommates. The first couple of days have been amazing. The w...

On July 24, Silke and I volunteered at the Detroit Institute for Children’s (DIC) Summer Camp 2008, which they held at their facility in Detroit from July 21 – 24. DIC is a provider of specialized diagnostic, medical and rehabilitative care to children with disabilities. The theme of this year’s camp was “Four Seasons” and the four days were divided into fall, winter, spring and summer. Silke and I volunteered on the last day, which was about summer and water activities. The DIC divided its facility into three areas representing the continents Australia, Europe and the United States. In Australia the children made boomerangs and afterwards they took an “airplane ride” to see the great sights of Europe. They ended their trip back home in the US – where they enjoyed water slide, blowing bubbles and a special visit from Disney Radio for karaoke fun. Forty disabled children and their siblings attended on that day. Volunteers gave their time and became “Camper Buddies.” Each volunteer took...

Hey AutoComers, You may be wondering who I am, why I’m at AutoCom, and why I’ll disappear before I get to really know any of you. I’m a senior at Country Day and my school has a program they call Senior Project. The basic idea is to get the seniors officially out of the school so they no longer have to deal with our senioritis. Thus, we spend the month of May and early June engaged in a project of our choice. The seniors can pick any field, in any place they want. People do projects as diverse as writing books, creating artwork, serving as a teacher’s assistant, shadowing doctors, and working for magazines. The only requirements are that we work thirty hours a week and turn in a brief paper at the end so that we can graduate. So why am I at AutoCom? It may seem like a strange place for a girl whose main interest is in history and politics and who dreams of working overseas for a non-profit organization, but it really isn’t. The skills AutoCom uses in public relations apply not only to ...

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 ...

May 10: It was a sunny day during a week full of rain. Christina and I met with Jack in Bloomfield Hills. He was so kind to give us a ride so we could enjoy the landscape. On our way to Port Huron, we picked up Jan who became the car DJ. Jack has satellite radio and so we could choose between the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, Bluegrass, Country, Jazz, Hip Hop, R’n’B, Rock, Blues, etc. I like the 60s and 70s, Jan the 90s, Jack Bluegrass and Christina Rock. As you can imagine DJ Jan had a tough ride… As we were in Port Huron one hour to early, we decided to have a little “wedding appetizer” at Wendy’s. After some fries, sandwiches and milk shakes we drove to the church where we met Larry Weis and Kathi McCarroll, Don Habarek and Nancy Arnold, Joe and Mary Cabadas, Jim Meloche and the other AutoCom girls. The celebration was in the St. Joseph Catholic Church. It’s a beautiful old church and Marty and Ruth had it decorated lovely. Marty’s youngest son Justin opened the service with the so...