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…

Somehow, it’s our final day already. It feels like we just arrived in Augsburg and got sandwiches at the bakery yesterday, not 2 weeks ago. Even though I was sad how fast the trip went, we still had our free day to enjoy. The majority of our group decided to all go to Salzburg, which…

The day has come; presentation day. The project that’d we have been working on with our group along with the German students is being presented today. I don’t have too much to talk about today because the majority of the day was preparing for and doing the presentations. In the morning, I woke up early…

Today we woke up and hopped on the coach bus with a little bit of fear considering we had the same driver who hit the sign yesterday. Luckily, we made it to the castle safely. Unfortunately, it was pouring when we got there and did not stop once until we left. We began by walking…

Today we visited the fourth largest city in Bavaria: Regensburg. Unlike many of the cities in Germany during WWII, Regensburg did not suffer much damage. Although a military plane factory was nearby and was destroyed, the city itself did not lose as much of its existing buildings. This was the reason that we got to…

Today we had more of a somber activity to start off. We went to the Dachau concentration camp, which was the first constructed in Germany, and was used as a model camp for the others to be based off of. Our tour guide gave us some general information about the camp, and also explained how…

After a nice late start to the day, we left at 9:40 to go to Munich! I was extremely excited to get to see a larger German city – the third largest in Germany. We took the train for the first time, which was pretty cool. After getting to Munich, we exited the train station…

I woke up this morning after a great night of sleep and couldn’t wait to get to our site visit for today – Audi. On the ride to the factory in Ingolstadt, Fox, Evan, and I played Crazy 8 on our phones for an hour and a half. It was definitely the hardest I’ve laughed…

Today we woke up bright and early to go to our Weißwurstfrühstück, which is a German breakfast usually containing a white sausage made of pork and viel, pretzels, and mustard. The Germans also typically drink beer with it, but we chose to pass on the 8am beer. The sausage was very interesting, and came in…

Today we had a chance to sleep in a little bit later than the past few days, and we left to visit the GROB complex at 9. Our favorite bus driver, Cristian, was back today, so it was a great start to the day. On the bus ride there, I tragically lost a game of…

The extremely long day began at 9:00 am Pittsburgh time, when we hopped on the bus to the Pittsburgh airport. We had a quick flight to Charlotte, followed by a three-hour layover before our flight to Munich. The flight to Munich was about eight hours, so I tried to get some sleep on the plane….