Day 17 - John Deere Internship!

22.02.12 - Mittwoch, Wednesday

Normal day of class, aside from talking about passive and beginning a discussion on Atomenergie/ Kernenergie (Atomic and Nuclear Energy). Then for lunch there was something called Hausgemachter Texasbratling mit Salsasauce & Gemüse Reis & Dessert (House-made Texasbratling [veggie burger thing] with salsa sauce and 63/64 rice with 1/64 vegetable with an apple as dessert. I didn't eat it all, but the veggie burger-y thing was absolutely delicious! The food is so weird, but delicious. I think I will have to take pictures in the future.

Also, today I received an e-mail from a John Deere HR rep saying "We are pleased to inform you that we can offer you an internship from 16.07.2012 until 31.12.2012." I'm really excited about this! I get to work abroad for 22 weeks! It's a little scary because I still haven't been completely culturally immersed and because I've never done real engineer's work, but again exciting because I get to do engineer's work and in a different country! I'm glad that everything is falling into place. Now all I have to do is get all the classes I want at HS (Hochschule) Mannheim, but I won't get to do that for two weeks.

Before the exciting news, I went to the post office and my mind completely blanked on the world for a stamp, so that was a bit of an issue, but not bad. On my way back I stopped in a store called Netto Diskont to check out the prices. That's when I realized I was trapped. The only way to the exit was through the cashier lanes, when I tired to go out the entrance because I didn't buy anything some alarms went off and I went back in the store and bought (scrumptious) Käsebrötchen (Cheese bread), two big chunks for ,70 cents. I also found something... very interesting the "Amerikaner". Underneath it says Sandbrötchen, which means clay bun or something like that. I didn't buy it because it didn't look very appetizing, and I have no idea what it is. A thick sugar cookie with glaze?

Furthermore, I went running. People seem to be amazed that I'm running or that I'm wearing very bright clothes, I don't know. I haven't figured that out yet...