At the end of August 2009 seven students from Trento in Northern Italy came to the AIB in Bonn for an intensive internship experience. After a five-week German language course they spent more than two months in various internship institutions:
Angela took care of small children in a day-care center, Marco sold skater clothes, Maya supervised teenagers with difficult family backgrounds and Lorenzo worked at a PR and marketing agency. Giulia spent her internship at a fitness center, where she was given the opportunity to acquire the training license for aerobic classes. Alice immersed herself in the study of various artists at a museum and Patrizia supported an international youth exchange organization in their daily work.
Seperated from the group, in their respective internships each and every one of them was forced to communicate in German - and within the sixteen weeks they were in Bonn they made a big step forward in deepening their proficiency in spoken and written German!
Happy to be back for Christmas with their families, all students were sad to leave Bonn. But two of them are already planning to come back – they want to start a vocational training here in Germany!
