Post #8: Failure, Success, and Final Preparations

Well, this post is a little late in coming. Or a lot late in coming.

Anyway, I was not able to find a place on my own despite contacting two different people. Thanks to Peggy with CDS, I have a place to stay. So, Peggy, Vielen Dank!!!!

Tomorrow, at 1pm, I start my trip. 5:20, my plane takes off to arrive in Frankfurt at 7:40 Friday morning. It's exciting, but at the same time, I am a little nervous. I still have to get a Eurail pass. I think I'll be going for the 8 days over the course of 2 months, which should allow me 4 weekends of international traveling to Austria, Switzerland and Italy. The other weekends, I'll probably spend closer to "home".

As part of German 350, I need to come up with a list of goals for this summer. So, here is my list of goals for the summer. I'll be expanding on them later, but for now, I'm just wanting to get them written down.

1. Have an enjoyable experience.
2. Gain practical experience.
3. Learn how to work in a professional environment.
4. Learn more engineering/technical German
5. Become more fluent in daily German Usage
6. Be able to bring back what I learned from the internship to my studies at UM.

I'm sure that this list will change as the summer goes on, but for now, that is what it is.

For now though, I need to start moving things around. I've got to be completely packed and T-1 day ready for moving back to Ann Arbor at the point I leave tomorrow in addition to being ready for 3 months of international.....living/working/traveling/fun-having.

Bis dann.