in an attempt to combat global warming (a.k.a. build good PR) Deutsche Bank organizes a "social day" for its interns every summer where everyone goes and plants trees and then drinks beer afterwards. basically a really stereotypically German day. it started out fairly normal - kweeks speaking awkward German, free t-shirt, and a bus ride to approximately ten minutes out of the city, prompting the girl behind me to say, "wow, we're really in the country now." clearly someone who's never left Frankfurt or encountered the phenomenon known as the internet.
we had to divide up into groups to go plant trees and it quickly became abundantly clear to everyone in my group that i was really foreign. mostly because at one point pretty early in the day, i had to read out loud in German. Not only did I have to slowly sound out a word that I didn't know, but I over-anticipated where the end of the sentence was and ended my intonation one awkward word too early. it was great. just great.
the weirdest thing about the social day, however, was not me (at least from my perspective...). only in Europe would you have to have a designated smoking area for a group of interns on an outdoor tree hugging adventure. anyways, we managed to plant 1,000 trees while simultaneous undoing all our good efforts by drinking 1,000 bottles of water.
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