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The beginning of our MBA Study Abroad program.
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After a 5.5 hour train ride from Bayreuth, Germany to Bremen, Germany I arrived and dropped of my bag and headed to meet up with the group. They were finished up a Beck´s Brewery tour and we all grabbed some dinner by City Center and gorgeous old churches. A few of us stopped by a German Irish pub on the way back which was both very busy and unique. It gave us more time to get to know each other and enjoy our first evening together.
We made it back to our hostel safely and bright and early caught a train to the northen coast (Cuxhaven) where were there a small piece of the sea ground recedes twice a day allowing people to walk out into the ocean for miles. This is before high tide brings the water back to depths of over 12 feet where you previously were walking. It was a very quaint ocean town and learning about the sea was intriguing. That evening we enjoyed the laughter and good times of a German Karaoke night. My one karaoke song I sing wasn´t an option so I was able to get by without making a fool of myself.
The next day was Monday and started our actual program. We toured Airbus (the airplane manufacturer and main competitor of Boeing) that morning and learned about the business. It was intriguing as I had toured Boeing in high school so I was able to see the differences a German vs. US based company is ran. That afternoon we toured Daimler Chrysler and their production plant of the new SLK convertibles. I am sad to say we were not given one for touring their company but were did receive an excellent experience. Once I get back I will have to see if I can scrounge up $70K to buy one so I will be asking for donations from everyone. We enjoyed a nice quiet night down by the river at nice restaurant-bars, though once again I can´t say it was a early evening. We ended up stopping in a German ´´adult´´ shop and had a laugh at the German adult toys and magazine. We got a gay adult magazine to play a prank on one of the guys and that story will come later.
We trained to Hamburg, Germany and toured Otto that Tuesday, which is the world´s largest catalog ordering company. They own or are partners in so many companies I was shocked I had never heard of them. They own Spiegel catalog, Crate and Barrel, and numerous other US brands. They had just installed a massive new distribution-shipping system that was absolutely astonishing to see how quickly and much it could process. We enjoyed another wild and crazy evening where we even met back up with so local girls that we karaoked with a few nights before. We were spending the day on the train the next day to Berlin so we knew we could sleep then and took advantage of that.
Ok, now back to the gay German adult magazine. We had put it under one of the guy´s mattress as we were going to put it in his laptop bag so when they asked him to open it up at the airport (he was headed to India for business afterwords so he brought it along) that it would fall out in front of everyone. The thing was his bed broke so one of the young ladies working came up to help him and when they lifted up the mattress this magazine with two naked guys were starring at them. Neither knew what to say but if a person can turn red, they both were as red as one can get. She didn´t speak English so she didn´t know what to say and he was so embarrassed he also was speechless. It was a hilarious moment to watch.
That morning we headed to Berlin on the train for the last half of our Germany trip.
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