Post# ?? Wochenende Nr. 8

This was a somewhat relaxing weekend.

At first, I had plans to visit Dorian Hall in Berlin, but in the end the ticket would have been 220€, so I decided against it. But in order to find that out, I was up at 3 in the morning, ready to catch the train from Klinikum Großhadern at 4:13, but at 4:12 I couldn't exactly remember if I'd locked my door, so I had to run back, and wound up needing to catch the train at 5:03. I wound up wandering the Hauptbahnhof until 6:30 gathering information about train schedules and possible other destinations that Dorian and I could meet up at. So, hopefully, we can meet up in Bayreuth on the weekend of August 1.

After I got back from this excursion, I slept for a few hours, and got up in time to be on Marienplatz at 12 Mittag. I didn't realize it until then, but at 12 that day was the official start of the Christopher Street Day Parade from Marienplatz to Müllerstraße. After watching this for a while, I went to the Westfriedhof and switched my iPod to Mahler's 2nd Symphony. It was a nice almost 2 hours. The Westfriedhof is very big, but not as old as the Alte Südfriedhof. (By the way, a Friedhof is a graveyard). But despite the depressing sounding nature of an excursion of this type, it actually isn't. The Friedhöfe here are very well kept, and with the amount of flowers that are placed around on the graves, it would be hard to feel depressed while there.

On Sunday, I went to Alter Peter for Mass, then spent the rest of the day quietly either wandering around the middle of the city, or back at my room.

Post#?? BMW Woche Nr. 8

Montag

Dienstag

Mittwoch

Donnerstag

Mittagessen: Wurstlasagna mit Mozzarrella und Gemüse. Es schmeckt sehr gut.

Ich habe mit einen total Fremde Person über einen Handy gesprochen. Es ist ziemlich gut gegangen.

Freitag

Post #?? Weekend in München

Well, yesterday was spent traveling with my Ansprechspartner Gunter to Motorrad Days in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on his motorcycle. It was a fun day; 2 hours there and 2 hours back. I have come to the conclusion that riding on the back of a motorcycle is like riding a horse. In order to keep steady, you have to use your legs to lower the center of gravity below the level of the spine(of the horse) or the seat(of the motorcycle). It was definitely interesting going at 150 km/h on a motorbike for the first time. Motorrad Days was a fun event. It was held at the base of the Zugspitze in Garmisch and there were a lot of motorräder there. For lunch, we went up the ski-lift and had a meal of bier, semmelknodel, sauerkraut, and the back of a baby pig. On the way back from this event, we made a stop in Trudering for ice cream. Unfortunately, a woman backed into Gunter's parked Motorrad and it tipped over onto the sidewalk. No major damage, just paint and a new side box.

Today, after going to church at Sankt Peter, it rained pretty heavily, so, since I had my trombone with me, I took it and practiced under the umbrellas on Marienplatz during the rain. It was pretty cool. It didn't last a very long time though.

Now, I'm just waiting for a little while before heading down to the free showing of Lohengrin at the Staatstheater.

Week # 5 bei BMW

Montag: Neue Praktikant: Cassidy DeSchryver

Freitag: Nach den Gruppenrunde, bin nach Hause gegangen um 13:45.

Discussion mit Herr Guitarrez-Sanchez über Musik.

Dienstag: 6:20 bis 17:30

Donnerstag: Gilbert und Sullivan "Die Piraten von Penzance"; Generalmajor.

Food Options at BMW FIZ München

For lunch everyday, there is a wide variety of options to choose from in the area of my desk.
1) there is a store across from Herr Leistner's office where you could buy a sandwich, drink, usw.
2) there is the Betriebsgastronomie (company restaurant) at the Formel Eins Werk where they have two stations that serve different things
3) there is the Betriebsgastronomie on the other side of the railroad tracks where they have 4 different stations
or
4) there is the Betriebsgastronomie in FIZ where they have 14 different stations, each with a theme and a selection of different foods.
- Sandwiches
- Asien - asian food
- Mediterran/Gyro/Gratins - mediterenian cuisine
- Terrinen/Süßes - sweet foods
- Mare - seafood
- Pasta - anything that has to do with pasta
- Bavaria & Co. - Leberkäse, and other bavarian speicalties
- Pizza/Gemüse/Salat - Pizza, veggies, and really big salads
- Schnitzel - schnitzel of all types
- Wurstl - anything that has to do with Wurst. (One day they had wurstlasagna)
- Steaks

Post #14 Weekend

This weekend was somewhat busy.

Gunter had secured a ticket for me for the Patentorchester Konzert in the Herkülensaal in the Residenz. This concert was pretty cool; it was all American composers and american music.

On Sunday, I went to the Heilige Geist Kirche for Mass. It is a very pink church. two concerts. Heilige Geist Kirche. Lunch with Joe at Chinesicher Turm. Band.

Post # 13 Week at BMW

This was an interesting week.

On Monday, I went was told that for the rest of the week, I would be working on my own for the rest of the week because Herr Schröter would be in Ulm for the rest of the week. As part of their new employee training procedures, we had to attend what they called the "Erstinformationsveranstaltung" which is a big fancy word for "a presentation where they tell us about what to do in an emergency in these buildings, and what the different signs mean". It was interesting. I got a piece of paper, where I am supposed to collect signatures every time I get a safety discussion. (So later that day, I got the safety clearance to use the Rheometer). But immediately after the Erstinformationsveranstaltung we had our first Technikumsrunde, which is a meeting between our Chefin and all the people who work at the Technikum. As I've since learned, there is a meeting before this meeting (usually) for the people who work with Adhesives (Klebstoffrunde), and then every Friday, we have a Gruppenrunde in which all the people who work for BMW in the department get together and exchange information. (Most of the people who work in the Technikum are actually employees of P+Z Engineering).

After work, I went to a store called Münchner Blech. This is where I rented a trombone for the summer. All together it will cost me about 25€, so I'm pleased to have it for the summer. (despite the fact that I left the bulk of my music at home). I had a nice discussion with a very helpful employee there about renting a trombone, ( completely different attitude from the previous music store that I went to).

On Tuesday, I sat down with Herr Hermann Schwippl and went through a PowerPoint presentation about the safety procedures specificly for the Technikum. After that, I needed to return to my apartment to pick up my Passport because I'd forgotten it that day and needed it for my appointment at the Hypovereinsbank on Frankfurter Ring. I sat down with the representative at HVB and set up a bank account so that my earnings from BMW could be delivered to me, the payment for the Studentenwerk paid, and (as I found out later) the payment for the trombone paid.

After this appointment, I went back to Münchner Blech and finalized the transaction with the Trombone (which included giving them my bank account information so they could charge the rent directly). Like I said before, the people here were much more helpful than the other store.

On Wednesday, we had a Gruppenrunde in the Technikum conference room. This one was, in addition to other information exchange, specifically to get to know Ramsey and myself. So we got to announce to the entire Technikum who we were. It was interesting. This day, I was the last person still working at the Technikum. Due to the safety protocol for that work space, nobody is allowed to work there alone, so, as the second to last person working there, Herr Severin Mayer waited an extra 5 minutes for me to finish what I was working on and walked out with me. It was a nice chance to talk a bit with him. (Interesting fellow. Eventually, I'll write a bit about everybody that I've met).

On Thursday, I got to talking with another intern from Germany, Christoph Schmid. He was a very nice person, but then his internship was supposed to end the next Wednesday. He told me that he would almost believe me if I told him that German was my Muttersprache (original language). That was nice. Later that day, I went to the Personal Direkt and dropped off my Bank Konto information and then found out that I still needed to square away my insureance information, so I went directly over to BKK BMW; BMW's internal insurance agency. This went very easily. The lady at the desk filled out all of the paperwork for me.

Friday was fairly uneventful, except for the Computer crashing twice during the same test that I was running. It wasn't especially fun.

Voller Liste Von Leute die ich kennengelernt habe:

Frau Garth, Herr Leistner, Herr Gunter Schröter, Herr Vladimir Djuga, Herr Robert Landman, Christoph Schmid, Stefan Hartmann, Herr Schwippl, Herr Marcus Müllerhoffer, Herr Valentin Guldean, Herr Severin Meyer, Sandro Cifaldi, Herr Luis Guitarrez-Sanchez, Frau Christiane Scheffler, Herr Prof. Dr. Stauber, Herr Wolfgang Schmitz, Herr Helmut Glas,