5.22.13 Was Fur Ein Tag!

5.22.13 Was Fur Ein Tag!

We have made it to our last full day in Germany, and boy do I mean full! Not only do I slightly regret the amount of celebrating that we did last night but today was also jam packed with media visits!

First we visited Ketchum Pleon. For some of my fellow students this was very interesting because they have visited the Ketchum office in Pittsburgh, where the company began. Here we were given delicious candy bars! We were taught about their many strategies for Public Relations including a lot about what they do with social media. Though I though this visit would be boring because I am a broadcasting major I could actually relate a lot of it to my Introduction to Advertising and Public Relations class that I took this previous semester.

We then had a little bit a free time for lunch before the next media visit. I utilized this time to take a much-needed nap. I woke up feeling only slightly better than I did before hand and we were off to the next visit.

We took the underground a little ways outside the city to Suddeutsche Zeitung. This newspaper company happens to compete with Die Welt which we visited while in Berlin. It was interested to here the similarities and differences between the two organizations. One thing that was different is that Suddeutsche Zeitung’s printing facility is right by there office building so we were able to tour that! I got my official birthday picture wearing a bright yellow safety vest that we were adorned with before entering the printing area.

After a very interesting tour we headed straight to dinner at Ratskeller located at Marienplatz underneath the glockenspiel. After dinner I was surprised with fireworks on a piece of cake, a plastic singing cake and a wonderful card. I am grateful to have spent my birthday and the trip with such great people!

Thank you all for making my birthday in Germany one that I will never forget!

Guten Nacht!