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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Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland
After relaxing for a few weeks post-Germany, I realize how grateful I am for this trip to have happened. Studying abroad in Augsburg, Germany for two weeks was an incredible experience that surpassed all my expectations. Not only did I get the chance to immerse myself in a new culture, but I also had the…
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…
A Trip To Remember – Personal Reflection Blog
For my final blog, I will be reflecting on this amazing trip. I initially felt two weeks was the perfect amount of time to be away from home in beautiful Germany, but now that I’ve been home for a couple weeks, I am ready to go back. As this program was my first ever experience…
Reflection on the Trip
It’s been a few days since the trip ended, and I’ve had time to really reflect on the whole experience. When I applied to the Plus Three program, I choose Germany mainly because of the car industry there. I really didn’t know much about the German culture. Ever since I was little and learned about…
Reflection
I can’t believe that the trip is already over. We started our trip back at 5:30am and travelled the entire day. Germany was such an amazing place to visit, and now looking back at the trip, I want to write a reflection post. The first week mainly consisted of visiting different companies and seeing how…
Reflection
This blog is for me to talk about the Germany trip overall and to reflect back on important aspects of the trip. Germany was a very enlightening and positive experience for me. Not only that it was the first time I have been outside the country, and I picked a good one to visit. The…
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…
Reflection
After taking some time to reflect about this amazing trip, I have come up with a few important things that I would like to talk about. The first thing being that this trip was one of the most unique professional experiences I could have ever done. We were given this amazing opportunity to learn about…
A Day in Saltzburg
Today was our free day so I went with most of the group to Saltzburg Austria!!! We headed out early for the day at 7am. We got our train tickets for the day and boarded the train. Our first train was to Munich. Then we got on the next train to Saltzburg, and it was…
Presentation Day!!!
Today was presentation day. For the first time during this whole trip, we finally got to sleep in. I slept in till nine in the morning which was amazing. I got breakfast at the hotel and tried the Belgian waffle machine. Their waffles are a lot better than the eatery’s. After that I made some…
Post-trip Reflection
Our trip back started at 5:30 am on Friday, and after about 18 hours of traveling, I made it home. After thinking about the trip for a little, I’m going to make my reflection post. The first week of the trip consisted of the company visits as well as getting to know the people in…
Seeing Harry in Munich!
As much as I loved being with the group and exploring Germany, today was by FAR my favorite day. I got to see Harry Styles perform live on his “Love on Tour”. I went with Lauren, Colleen, and Jules. The concert wasn’t until 7 pm, but we had to get there earlier for several reasons:…
No Kangaroos in Austria
As the title implies, there are no kangaroos in Austria, but rather, Australia. I didn’t originally believe this is something that people got confused, but on our last day in Europe we took a train to Austria, and I saw merch bearing the phrase, “No Kangaroos in Austria”. I got a good laugh from it…
Goodbye Germany
Today we sadly flew home. We left around 5:45 am which is relatively early. We all were able to fly from Munich to Charlotte together, but from there we went our separate ways. I personally flew back to Philadelphia with a few other students as it is closer to my home than Pittsburgh is. I…
Harry Styles
Today is our twelfth day in Germany which means it is our free day. Today some friends and I traveled to Munich to see Harry Styles in concert. Since we didn’t have any program today we got to sleep in again which was really nice after having to be up early for most of this…
Presentation Day
Sadly today was the last official day on program. Today all of our hard work visiting and interviewing companies such as Grob, Forvia, Hoerbiger, and Audi come to completion. We will give our final presentations with our group on the company to which we were assigned. I was given Audi. What I enjoyed most about…
Presentation Day
Today was the big day. It was time to present our presentations for our corresponding companies. The time to present wasn’t until 2 PM, so the teams (made up of German and American students) had up until then to prepare any last minute details. My team decided to meet up at the University at 11:30…