Markus first impressions

Hello Detroit!

Leaving Germany in early summer, arriving in Detroit in rainy fall was my first impression when I found one’s feet in Detroit last Wednesday.
Bianca picked me up at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (greetings to Linda :-)

The first days Bianca helped me handle all the stuff every new intern has to do:

- Check in at the Oakland campus
- Apply for the social security number
- Get a bank account
- Get a car
- Having the first American burger with
- Bianca, Lei and Maggie
- …
Due to the current interns support everything is easier than I expected!

Really interesting was looking for a car:

Bianca and I went to Pontiac and stopped at different used car dealers:
People there where a bit strange; five or more sitting in a really small office, giving you car keys for test drives and saying nothin’ expect “this car drives perfect”.
(One had hardly working brakes; one had a bad wheel and another didn’t start)

My rescue was Biancas’ idea going to Wayne, who sometimes repairs cars for AutoCom.
He showed us an old Volvo, a red family car with a huge trunk.
I will buy it tomorrow, after he has repaired different things and did attendance.

Now it’s my second official workday and everything is going on well, the staff is really nice and I got the first instructions from Bianca, Lei and Dee.

On Friday Bianca, Lei and I will go to the Detroit Press Club Foundation awards event at six in the morning, which was arranged by Jack.
Once a week we have a “PR-Lunch” with Jack to discuss about public relations and Jack tells us about PR-Events we could attend as well.
Another event, which Jack offered us last Friday, will be a Public Relations night in June in the Palace (Pistons Basketball Stadium) where the Detroit Shock (Detroit female basketball team) will be playing.

But now let’s finish this post and hope the first exciting projects will come soon!

Markus