Saturday, May 18th marked our last day in Germany. I had stayed up late the night prior, so 7 AM came bright and early for me. We took the bus to the Munich airport, where security took way longer than I thought it would. However, we thankfully made it to our gate on time. As…

My 13th and final full day of being in Germany was our group’s only free day, where we could chose what we wanted to do. Hearing positive things from last year’s group, we decided to go to Salzburg, Austria. It was about a two and a half hour train ride from Austria, which wasn’t so…

My 12th day in Germany was our last day of official planned events, and it started with a two hour bus ride to a city to the northeast of Augsburg. I slept the majority of the bus ride, as I stayed up pretty late the night prior. I think I’ve said this in a prior…

My 11th day in Germany was the day our group was finally going to present. In a way, this was a culmination of the whole trip, from our trip to Forvia, our trips to the other companies, and forming relationships with the University of Augsburg students. I was just a bit nervous to present in…

Hallo! My 10th day in Germany was a day dedicated to working on our powerpoint for the next day’s presentation. The Pittsburgh and Augsburg students in my group agreed to meet up at the University of Augsburg to work on the presentation together, so that meant taking the tram to the school. I got to…

My 9th day in Germany started off with another bus ride, this time to the Audi headquarters in Ingolstadt. This was a bit of a longer ride, so I took the opportunity to take a nap on the way there. To anyone going on this trip next year, a neck pillow is your best friend!…

We began our 8th day in Germany with a bus ride east to Dachau, a concentration camp located near München. I knew this would be heavy day, but a very important one. When we arrived at Dachau, we met up with our tour guide who said the remembrance site was emptier than usual due to…

Day 7 of marked the halfway point for our trip to Germany, so what better way to celebrate that than going to the largest city in Bavaria, München! Technically, this was not my first time on this trip in München as that’s the city we flew into, but I was so tired I don’t even…

On our sixth day in Germany, we went to a little historic town called Landsberg. It’s about the same distance from Munich as Augsburg is. It was our first time as a group taking a train, as we’ve either taken the tram or a bus to all our locations so far. When we arrived in…

Day three of our trip started early, we met in the lobby at 7:15 AM for our bus ride to Hoerbiger. Hoerbiger is a company that makes a ton of different products, and we only two of their factories. The first factory we saw was where they produced their piezo valves, which can control the…

After a 1 hour flight to Chicago, 4 hour layover, and 9 hour flight, we finally arrived in Germany! Due to the 6-hour time difference, it was 10 am when we arrived in Germany, but 4 am back home. Needless to say, we were all very tired! When we got to Augsburg, we did a…