Well guys, here goes my last blog post. I’m devastated just thinking about going back to work, taking summer classes, and not having anymore delicious Bavarian pretzels! Traveling to Germany through Plus3 has been one of the most phenomenal trips of my life. I’ve become so close to so many kids from Pitt and Germany and…

Today was our free day and a group of us chose to spend it in Munich again. We never got a chance to visit the English Gardens so that was the plan for the day. We started the morning off by getting breakfast at a place in Augsburg called “Picnic,” and I got a spectacular…

Ulm was on the agenda today and so was the 768 step climb we have all been excited (maybe?) for. The church tower we climbed was the highest Catholic church tower to exist and we did it first thing in the morning. I wasn’t feeling too hot because it was a lot of stairs that…

Today we presented our PowerPoints on our companies that we have been creating over the past week. Not much happened today other then last minute touch-ups, practicing the presentation, and then actually presenting. But before I talk about the presentations, I’m gonna touch on how amazing my lunch at the University’s cafeteria was. I had…

Today was the day we got to visit Neuschwanstein Castle, a castle this crazy king built to hide out in so he could avoid Munich. This king wasn’t too found of being king and did not want to rule. Therefore, he built a castle to run away to. Unfortunately, I was a little disappointed in both the…

Everyone seemed to be extra dressed up today because we visited BMW headquarters in Munich. I expected the tour to be very interesting, but it surpassed what I expected. In the beginning, we got to take pictures and sit in the cars on the showroom floor which was fun. The i8 series car they had on…

I have been looking forward to visiting Munich for so long that I was fully awake this morning. I enjoyed taking the regional train from Augsburg to Munich because I was just relaxing with my headphones in and staring at beautiful Germany outside my window. In Munich, we took a tour starting in Mary Square, “The Heart…

Today was the day we visited the company I am specifically working on, SGL Group, who (basically) uses carbon fiber to make automotive parts. While there, we toured areas where carbon fiber was being made and used to make parts. I also saw a KUKA robot being used. (Robots are crazy!) It was very interesting to…

I definitely woke up the most awake this morning as we were able to sleep in a little bit, and we were headed to a restaurant called “Baindlkirch” to eat a traditional Bavarian breakfast. Don’t get me wrong, the hotel breakfast isn’t bad and their coffee machine is fantastic, but it is a hotel breakfast so it’s…

Today was out first company visit and there was no rain! Woohoo! We traveled to Faurecia, a French company that is a top manufacturer of car engines and exhaust systems, among other products, in the automotive industry. We had to put on safety googles, a lab coat, and steel toe safety shoe slip-on’s to be…

After a good ten hours of MUCH NEEDED sleep, I woke up and headed to the University of Augsburg to meet the rest of the German students to start, finish, and present our first presentations. My group consisted of four American students and three German students and the company we were assigned was SGL Group. At…

These past two days have been extremely draining. I did a lot of traveling, waiting, and not sleeping, so when we finally got to Augsburg I was struggling to stay awake. We had a layover in Newark airport for around 9 hours, so we were all anxious to make it to Germany and complete our lengthy…