Kristin

Hi guys!
My name is Kristin and I had the pleasure to spend my six month internship at AutoCom togehter with Heike. For me personally AutoCom and the U.S. in general were a great experience in every way. I travelled a lot (California, New York, Chicago, Toronto and the Great Lakes of course) and it was particularly exciting to be in the U.S. whilst the elections. However I still hadn't gotten enough of cultural differences and challenges so I decided to go to Shanghai for another internship afterwards. Meanwhile I am back in Germany and I gotta say the 'cultural shock' backwards (meaning when I had returned home) was far worse than expected. You should really never underestimate that everyting and everyone moved on while you were gone and it's kinda hard settling back in. Now I am about to finish university, I am studying International Business in Landshut btw, and I am really looking forward to being done and finally start working. For anyone who is going to the U.S. and in particular to AutoCom I can only recommend to do and see as much as possible-it's a great country-you'll see. Even Detroit! Before I left to the U.S. at that time a lot of people were sceptical since they had heard that Detroit was dirty and the typical 'industrial city'. I couldn't see that-for me it had a lot of charme since I lived there-it simply is on you to see that! I will probably be coming back to Detroit this year since my brother's gonna work in Troy for two years. So, I guess I'll see some of you guys there!!

by Kristin