Hey guys....!

I can’t believe it has already been two months since I left... Time went by so fast! Hope you are all good!

I have also settled in pretty good here in Munich. My internship here also turned out to be what I was looking for and is also really fun. I’m a “shared” intern between the guy who is responsible for management and sales training in our markets as well as the lady who does customer relationship management. And of course – and who could be better than I for this task – I’m responsible for the department’s car pool J So I get to drive really nice cars all the time, my absolute favorite right now is the new 3Series convertible with the new 3.5l engine and 306 HP – and of course the M6 J As you can see, the crazy German has found the crazy cars

Besides the cars… Munich is also a really really great big village, as a lot of people say. And with my city guide “Munich for people from Munich” I’m finding the insider places…thanks Nicole!

The mountains are also directly next door, so I already went 2 times skiing for the weekend. Unfortunately, winter has been too hot, so there was never really a lot of snow and therefore not a lot left L

I really miss Motown, the office, the cool concerts (especially the Maggie man’s one) and clubs, Royal Oak, the cool (and not evil) roommate, the Zsuzsu car…….

I really honestly have to say – AutoCom and everything revolving around it has been a great experience and has helped me personally and also for my professional career – I think I would have gone down at BMW without all my experience from AutoCom! Thanks a lot again for the opportunity – you’ve all been great.

Next time I’ll have some pictures to post to show you the way I’m living here

Sometime I hope I’ll be back and continue enjoying the American way of life!

Talk to you soon, Susanne

Greetings from Linda

Hi everybody,

how are you doing? how does it go for you? I send you many greetings from the north of Germany, more precisely: from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. I started with a traineeship at the Jacobs University (a private university, former called: International University) in March and try to settle down in this foreign city. The University is about 30 minutes away from the city itself, but fortunately I found an nice room in an apartment- sharing community which is in the heart of the city. Therefore I theoretical have the chance to enjoy the nightlife every day but to tell you the truth: when I come home during the week I am definitely too tired to go out to party (different from the weekend, of course). At the moment we have ugly, windy and cold weather but I was told that it´s normality if you are living in a city almost next to the coast...


Maggie: Beside your nature I mainly miss the legendary happy Friday... I try to establish them into our pr department (but it´s not comparable to Einstein-Bagels)

Dee: Who provides me with the advise of the day???

Don: Hope you´ve found delicious dark chocolate in the meantime?

Jan: Are you still looking for freedom?

Marty: Did you put through that the Oreo-cake is officially adopted as the ceremony-candy?

Larry: I bet you could win a contest in pronouncing "Eberspaecher" professionally??

Lauren: I am planning to open a Panera Bread store in Bremen. Are you my first customer? Onion soup is for free...

Jen: How is life without the permanent attendance of workmen?

Joe: Yesterday I bought a popcorn-machine, yippie!

Jack: Is there time for a Bremen-visit during your next trip to Germany ;)?

Nicky & Mareike: Hope you both had a good start and got used to the "crazy Americans" J

Letty & Paul: It´s too bad that we couldn´t meet each other in person but I am sure you have a lot of fun with my ex-colleagues...

My First Impressions

Nearly three weeks ago I arrived in Detroit. It's unbelievable how fast time goes by. I‘d like to tell you some of my first impressions I had during my first weeks outside the office and I‘d like to show you the places I have been.


Como’s Restaurant & Pizzeria
On my first week, Letty, Andrea, Lauren, Maggie, Paul and I went to Como’s Pizza for a welcome gathering. We ordered a big size pizza with pepperoni and meat, which tasted very good and I enjoyed this evening.

Gracie’s Underground

On Friday was a birthday party in Gracie’s Underground. After a long search for my house, Andrea and Lauren found me eventually and picked me up. Thanks for stamina! Letty and some of her friends were already there and we had a lot of fun together. I like the music (house) and the people there and I will certainly come back soon.


P.F. CHANG’S
Stephanie, my roommate, is not only very nice; she is also a very good cooker. But last week we were lazy and went to Somerset Mall in Troy. We ate “Mongolian Beef”, “Dan Dan Noodles” and as dessert the “Great Wall of Chocolate”, hmmm…delicious. After the meal we visited the shops and walked across the Skywalk over Big Beaver Road.

BBAC - Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
The BBAC is a non-profit regional art center. Last Friday was an Arts Competition and Andrea, Letty and I went there to see all the beautiful work form the artists. We met Jack and his wife and they showed us the exhibition.

The new girl at AutoCom

My Name is Nicky. I am a 22 year old girl from Stuttgart, a city in the south of Germany.
Prior to joining AutoCom, I trained in business and worked in human resources at Siemens AG in Stuttgart. Currently I am a student in media economics at the Media University (HdM) in Stuttgart-Vaihingen and this internship is part of my studies.

Nearly one week ago I arrived in Detroit. So I just want to tell you some of my experiences I had during my first days. After a long journey to the US, Paul picked me up from the airport and drove me to my new home in Oak Park. My roommate Stephanie was waiting for us when we arrived. We all went to a Spanish restaurant in Royal Oak together for dinner. The next day Paul drove me to a lot of offices where I applied for my social security number, car insurance, bank account etc. Thanks a lot Paul!
Now I’m at the office and I’m very excited for what will happen in the next few months, but I’m sure that I will have a great time here and I am going to learn a lot about PR and the American way of life.

Nicky.

Future Intern Mareike

My name is Mareike, I am 22 years old. I grew up in Leer, a city in the northern part of Germany, very close to the North Sea. Since 2004 I have been studying Media Science, Business Studies and German Literature in Bonn. After more than two years of living in Bonn, it has become a second home for me, but sometimes I still miss the sea, the daily tea-time and just the northern way of life. But Bonn and Cologne (only 20 min away) are really great cities. The best thing for students of course is the tradition of carnival.
A few days ago I left Bonn and my apartment-sharing community. Now I will stay at my parents house for the last few days and I already miss my two roommates and my friends.



My intership will begin in April and I am really excited. When I was 12 years old I visited the USA for the first time. My parents, my big brother and me traveld six weeks from west to east. Later I visited the USA twice on my own. Because my mom worked as a voluntary for an international student exchange program, we always had a lot of American students staying at our home. Now they have already started their own families but of course they had a little room for a German guest. So I stayed in St.Louis for four weeks in 2003 and five weeks in Atlanta in 2005. But I’ve never been to Detroit before.

Mareike.