Category: Europe
Days 12, 13, 14, & 15 – The past several mornings greeted us with surprisingly calm, cloudless, blue skies; a stark contrast to our insane workdays over the week.
So being over 7000 miles away from Columbus, we tend to long for things that remind us of home. For some of us it has been a functional gym, for others it has been ice cream, for me it has been fresh vegetables, but for all of us, we shared in a little piece of home tonight. Many of us miss home, we miss our friends, our partners, our pets. But most of all, we feel for Javed, who has a wife and three kids back home. He has a special family ritual that we could all relate to, the American classic of milk and cookies.
A quick update from Team Germany Amsterdam. We have had a fantastic weekend in this stunning city! After a morning of work on Friday, and our last interview before our final presentation, we got on the road to a brief weekend in Amsterdam.
We had a lot of fun wandering around and getting to know this unique city, and did some must-see sight seeing along the way.
"We are the Americans. We are loud. We are boisterous. We speak loudly, we laugh loudly, our volume fluctuates, we gesture wildly with our hands and body and we eat everything that isn't bolted down. We also act like Freshmen, traveling in packs and often walking in lines like baby ducks. Scotts SAS is located in a corporate park that shares space with BASF and IBM France and if Lyon itself were not cosmopolitan enough, the cafeteria certainly is. Human communication is overwhelmingly silent, indirect and often unintentional.
With just under a week to go until our final presentation to DHL executives, our group was hard at work on Thursday, formulating our strategy and pulling together the frameworks for a cohesive presentation. This week, we were able to augment the wealth of information we gathered the week prior with newfound information we gained from a global OEM and Tier-1 auto supplier in Hannover. We finished combining these two data sets to prepare the first draft of our presentation for Professor Matta (our academic advisor for the trip) who would be arriving in Koblenz shortly.