Post #11 Week #3 at BMW

Well, this "week" is now officially over for employees of BMW in Munich. Tomorrow is Fronleichnam, so we get the day off, and because the company decided it wouldn't be worth it to come in for one day at the end of the week, we all get Friday off.

So, on Monday, we started the day at the Ausweisstelle. Here, I got my official BMW ID. It is nice. Now, I don't have to make a visit every morning and afternoon to the security desk at the gate. Following this, we had the Departmental weekly make-sure-we-are-all-on-the-same-page meeting. This was an interesting 2 hour meeting. It never really struck me just how different Bayrisch can be from Deutsch. Several people were almost completely non-understandable. At this meeting, I found out that I would be working with Herr Schröter and on a project that involves Rheology. It should be interesting. We covered this a little bit in the Fluid Mechanics course, but only a little bit and not this in-depth.

Tuesday and Wednesday were spent running two tests under the subject of Rheology. I don't believe that I am at liberty to discuss what they are more, but it has been interesting, and I am learning quite a bit in this field.

Also, I think it has started. I'm learning Bayrisch. "Nein" has become (pron.) "neh". "Gut" (pron. "goo-t") has become "goo-ut"). It aught to be interesting to see how far it gets.

I just saw the requirements for my German 351 class this next semester. It looks like it will be a lot of work, but I should be able to handle it; especially if I get started on in now.

Anyway, I think that it would be pretty cool at some point to go to the hill at the Olympiazentrum and watch the sunrise over München. Or sunset. Just a thought.

Bis später.