February 25, 2010

Like a real world business trip!

"The Bonn trip is amazing. It is like a real world business trip." - Participant 2009

Every summer, students of Loyola Marymount University's College of Business Administration visit Bonn as part of the program “The Environment of Business in the European Union”. Using Bonn as a hub, the program includes overnight excursions to Brussels (Belgium) and Maastricht (The Netherlands) as well as day trips with corporate and institutional visits to Frankfurt, Cologne, and Duesseldorf. Program participants get to enjoy the unique opportunity to interact with industry decision-makers and highly-ranked institutional leaders as part of their learning experience during this two-week course.

Take a look at a short version of the video produced by Paul, who was a participant of the program in Summer 2009 on our YouTube-Channel.

The complete video can be found here!

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February 22, 2010

Alaaf!

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Finally, the Rhineland's fifth season has arrived. Although still recovering from the Berlin&Prague Excursion, there was no way to hold the New Europe Kids back from celebrating Carnival.

Having been hyped up about these crazy days for the past weeks, the students put a lot of efforts in their customs and appropriate Carnival behavior: The truth is, "Kamelle", "Bützje" and "Alaaf" sound even more charming with an American accent and was of course rewarded with lots (...and lots!) of candy and flowers at the Carnival Monday Parade.

February 12, 2010

German culture: The attendance of a soccer game

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16 students from the Visualization Department of Texas A&M University have been in Bonn since mid-January. Although they have become acquainted with the German culture quite well, one important thing was still missing: attendance at a soccer game. Most of the students have been to games of their college football team, which usually plays in front of a crowd of 83,000. Nevertheless, the students greatly enjoyed the atmosphere they got to experience during the stand-off between Fortuna Düsseldorf and local rival MSV Duisburg. Unbeaten at home (8-2-0) Düsseldorf maintained its clean record and won 2:0 with 48,500 people attending the sold out home stadium.

Take a look at some impressions in our photo gallery!