Week 4: April 14th to April 20th

Monday April 14th

      Started: 12:30 PM

       Ended: 4:45 PM

Tuesday, April 15th

        Started: 9:00 AM

        Ended: 12:15 PM

Wednesday, April 16th

          Started: 9:30 AM

           Ended: 12:00 PM

Log:

Again I worked with translating and creating the english references.  I also learned that I had missed part of a translation from last time so to start off work I had to translate a couple of paragraphs that I had accidently published onto the servetr.  Not that big of a deal but when you mess something up you have to able to correct it.  so that is what I did, I looked over my translations from before and made sure that everything made sense and was used in the same context as it was in German. 

I feel as though the only reason my German is improving is because of this internship right now.  There are times when I wonder why I am doing this internship inparticular, because it isn't what I want to do with my life in the future nor does it have a correlation to my major.  When thinking about it I came up with a couple reasons as to why I am taking it.  First off it improves my German.  Second I like the people here that I work with as they are very nice and laid back about their work.  As far as my learning from this goes, I'm still not certain what exactly I can take from this internship back to the US and apply it.  My knowledge of computers is how this job goes so well for me and I haven't learned anything practical to use.  I have learned some differences between Austria and America in regards to regulations and how it is much easier to start businesses in the States.  I guess it just makes me appreciate where I come from even more. 

At the end of the day Tuesday I had a meeting with Max about my next big assignment.  I am gong to be working on creating a page describing what factline does especially meant for construction companies.  I am going to want to be able to put it into English and make it as simple as possible to understand.  I am also going to want to make the webpage look as appealing as possible to those who are viewing the page.  My deadline to finish this task is May 22nd when Max goes to a convention where he will explain what factline is.  There is going to be a lot of English speaking people there so he wants the page to be available in both German and English.  The thing is that he is going to take my creation in English and copy that into German to improve the already existing one.  

I like that I have responsibilities and even deadlines because it makes me work harder.  Yet at the same time everything is so new to me that I have a sense of something might go wrong.   I am sure that I will do fine with what I come up with but it is just that when I am not accustomed to doing these sorts of things it tends to make me nervous.