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…
Category: Education
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 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…
That’s All She Wrote!
These are just a few of my photos from our day in London! I’m so grateful for the experiences on the trip and the friends I’ve made along the way! I hope everyone on the trip enjoyed their time! I can’t wait to see what the future holds after this amazing trip!
Knowing Me, Knowing UK
My final photos of our day in London!
A very tourist day!
Today was our visit to Oxford and Blenheim Palace. As a history major, it was very cool to see the architecture and hear the stories of each location. There were plenty of reformation stories which are always cool to hear given their importance in Catholic history and theology. We started in Oxford near the location…
Thank You Oxford University and Many More!
Today is the second to last day of our stay England and I am certainly feeling sad about the matter. I’ve learned so much during my time in Birmingham, visiting Birmingham City University, the nearby museums, and meeting so many new faces. While I wish I had more time to expand the knowledge I’ve gained,…
I Belong in a Palace
Today I felt studious and smart visiting Oxford University. To begin I didn’t even know Oxford was an actual city in England, I thought it was just the name of the university. Furthermore I didn’t know that Oxford wasn’t a university like Pitt is, it’s actually made up of 39 different colleges. Although we saw…
Oxford leading us out..
It’s crazy to say that this is my last blog of my trip. I have had so much fun and learned so much. I spent my last learning day in Oxford. There were so many old medieval-like buildings, and tons of people on bikes and motorcycles. We were led again by Tim, who was our…