internship prologue

as some of you might already know, i am planning to study electric engineering. the universities in germany require their (future) students to fulfill an 6-8 week internship. in these weeks one should get to know basic mechanical and electrical skills and what it means to work as an engineer. since my father is already an engineer and works for Bosch, i asked him if it would be possible to complete my internship there. so, after some weeks and some calls he made, i had an employment at a Bosch plant about 100km away from my home. i was just completing the needed paper work for my new job, when my father called and said that i had the oppertunity to work at the local Bosch plant, if i start tomorrow (07/28) morning. he gave me the phonenumber of the person responsible for the trainees. so i called her and asked what i had to bring along the next morning.
i arrived at 6:45 in the morning at the gate where the security guys have their office. it was quite easily to get through without a badge. i told them that i would probably get my id card in the afternoon, but it took the human resources department a whole week to process my request. all the other trainees started the day before and so they all had already their badges and stuff. but hey, i got an employment without an official, written application. :) mr bode, our training supervisor, gave me a quick introduction to the security and work guidelines and showed me around the place. the place where we have our workroom is called TGA, which stands for Technisch Gewerbliche Ausbildung, its located on the opposite site of the plant to the one at which i entered in the morning and the whole week. then i changed clothes and started working with the others. i will give detailed descriptions of what i did in the working hours in the following posts. while mr bode showed me around a met carsten, an old friend of mine with whom i finished school last year. we met again in the staff canteen, had lunch together and told each other what we were doing the last year and what we had heard of the others. closing time was at 14.45 and since my car had an inspection that day i had to go by bus, which took me mor than an hour. if i had driven myself it would have taken 15 minutes only. but at least i didn't need to prepare myself a meal at home. the food in the canteen is really good.