Hallo wieder! Yesterday was my last day with the group, as today I’m leaving to stay with my friend, Rebecca, in Stuttgart. Stuttgart is in Baden-Wurttemberg, which is a state that neighbors Bavaria. I had to wake up early as my train, called an ICE, departed at 10:01 on the dot, as trains in Germany…
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Tag Elf – The Final Company Presentations
Guten Tag! Leider, I’m feeling worse than yesterday, and of course it happens on the most important day of the trip: the day of the final company presentations. At around 2 pm today, I, along with the rest of my group, will be discussing Hoerbiger, its expected challenges, and how it’s adapting to the auto…
Tag Zehn – Schloss Neuschwanstein and Wieskirche
Tag! Today is my tenth day of the Plus3 program, and it is one of my anticipated ones, as today we’re visiting Neuschwanstein, one of, if not, Germany’s most iconic castles. While I had visited Neuschwanstein before, I was excited to revisit the castle, as parts of it are always under renovation, making each tour…
Tag Neun – Regensburg and Walhalla
Wilkommen zurück! Today was another busy day, as we spent most of the day in the Regensburg area, one of the few remaining Medieval cities in Germany, as most were destroyed during World War II. Miraculously, around 90% of Regensburg was undamaged during the bombing, as the city opted not to defend itself, sparing it…
Tag Acht – Dachau
Hallo Alle! Today is another day of visiting cultural/historical sites in Bavaria, though not super cheerful. Today, we’re visiting Dachau, a labor camp set up during the Nazi Regime. It is essential to say that Dachau was NOT a death camp for Jews or other “undesirables”, but a labor camp mostly for political dissidents. Because…
Tag Sieben – Back to Munich!
Wilkommen zurück! Today is my 7th day of the Plus3 Germany program, and we’re going back to visit somewhere we haven’t been since we arrived: Munich! We flew into the Munich airport on our first day, but were unable to see the actual city itself, due to the airport being located on the city’s outskirts….
Tag Sechs – Audi
Guten Tag! Today was our last company visit and it was our biggest one yet, Audi! Audi is headquartered in Ingolstadt, which is about an hour away from Augsburg. The Audi Headquarters is so huge in fact, that as we found out on our tour later, that it is roughly the size of Monaco, which…
Tag Fünf – Forvia
Hallo! Today was our fifth day in Germany. We started today with our first (and only) group breakfast: a traditional Weißwurstfrühstück. This breakfast is very popular in the Bavarian region, which is where Augsburg is. We drove about an hour out to the village of Baindlkirsch and into a Markt. This Markt serves fresh ingredients…
Tag Vier – Visiting Grob
Hallo wieder! For our fourth day in Germany, we visited our second company of the trip: Grob! Grob is a contract manufacturer, with contracts with Tesla, Siemens, and more. After breakfast at the hotel, we drove to Grob’s headquarters in Mindelheim, Germany. Upon our arrival, we were greeted with a massive plant and dozens of…
Tag Drei – Hoerbiger and Oberammergau
Today was another busy day! We woke up extra early to do our first company visit: Hoerbiger. My company presentation that I will present by the end of the week is about Hoerbiger. Hoerbiger produces technical products for many industries, including automobiles. We were able to tour two different facilities: one in Altenstadt and the…
Tag Zwei – Meeting the Germans
Our second day in Augsburg was another busy one! First thing in the morning, we rode the S-Bahn to the University of Augsburg, our partner school for the program. We will be working with business students from the University to present an automotive company analysis at the end of our trip. My group was assigned…
Tag Eins – Hallo Augsburg!
Hallo Alle! After two long restless flights and many weeks of waiting, we’ve finally arrived in Germany! We landed at the Munich International Airport around 7 in the morning. I have been here before (almost four years ago); Unfortunately, my favorite Imbissstand, which sold buttered pretzels, was closed, which really disappointed me. However, not only…
Hallo von Amerika!
Hallo Alle! My name is Isabella Catanese and I’m a freshman at the University of Pittsburgh’s College of Business Administration (CBA). I plan on double majoring in Finance and Data Analytics and minoring in German. I’m currently a member of Smart Women’s Security (SWS) and the League of Emerging Analytics Professionals (LEAP). I also work…