Last week marked my last week in Germany. The week started off like every other week. I was given a few different tasks at work that I worked on consistently for the next five days. It was hard to believe that I would be leaving Europe in just a few days to come home. On…

At the beginning of this past week I was given the task of looking over my company’s interim report and analyzing whether or not it met all of the guidelines that the auditors from EY use when they are going over Sirius’s reports. This proved to be a lot more difficult and time consuming than…

For most of this week I was working on two tasks. The first task was a bit boring, in my opinion, because it involved a lot of sifting through thousands of records of invoices that my company has received throughout the past several years to find specific invoices and copy them. The purpose of this…

This week at work started off a little bit boring. I was given two overstuffed binders full of company invoices and asked to make copies of all of them, and then file the copies. Between the copy machine jamming frequently and other people printing papers, it ended up taking me a little over two full…

This week I had a fairly short three days of work. For the most part I had been working on tasks relating to a corporate bond that Sirius Facilities is hoping to get funding for. Part of this job required me to obtain financial records from as far back as I could find. I collected…

This week at work I have been working mainly on a chart of Sirius Real Estate’s sites to give to auditors and use as reference for the office and have had other small tasks on the side. After five weeks of the internship and six weeks of living in Berlin, I have already become so…

Since arriving in Germany, the only cultural difference that has really affected my interactions with citizens is the language barrier because this obviously makes verbal communication slightly difficult. Apart from that, my interactions with Germans are very rarely different from ones I would have with Americans at home. It is hard for me to clearly…

The basic line of business of my firm, Sirius Facilities, is commercial real estate. Their main service is produced by creating business parks, a collection of closely located buildings, that they rent out to smaller businesses and individuals to use for office space, conference centers, warehouses, etc. There is not a lot of manual labor…