Start of internship in Germany

This summer I had an internship in Germany. My university has a partnership with IAESTE, so I went to Germany by IAESTE programme.

Firstly I filled out the form at my university to participate at the inner competition. I won it. Then I started to collect documents for German university. They chosen me too among other participants. And I started to prepare for trip.

I started to learn german, and improved my english skills every time I could.

I red a lot of literature about the country and journey abroad (it was my first foreign tour). I asked all my friends about trip in Europe, flight, culture...

And at first of july I came to Berlin! My IAESTE mentor picked me up and brought me to my university. It was a small town about 200km far from Berlin. We had 5 trains before we got it... But it was more comfortable than 1 train in Russia. DB have a very convenient and easy website where you can plan your trip. You only have to choose the start and end point, the category of train, date and time to get information of more favorable train connection. And also you have different possibility to choose the most cheapest one. For example we usually bought a land ticket up to 5 people, or happy weekend ticket to go more far. Every train is clean, fast and have a biotoilet. There is a ticket mashine in lokal trains, but we prefered to buy it previously at the station (you also can by it by website).

My first impression of Germany: it is a very green and clean country with a lot of flowers, fachwerk houses and kind people. But unfortunately not everybody can speak english... And I was very suprised that there is no english translations in museums and other tourist places. So some time I had to comunicate in german (but I known it very little) or, more often,  by body language. Pleased that everybody try to help you if you need despite the fact  you can't comunicate in the same language. I can say, that this internship was a great practice of my english, because at the lab and during weekend trips with IAESTE members and other interns we spoke only english. We had a common trip every weekend, so I visited about 25 cities in central part of Germany (much more than in Russia).