On to a new chapter!

Bremen, Germany

On January 21st I am returning to Europe to start working in Bremen, Germany.  It’s an unbelievable opportunity and I am incredibly lucky for this chance to be able to work abroad and further my German language skills, as well as visit a few more incredible places this amazing world has to offer.  I will be working for a company called Bergolin, who make industrial coatings for a variety of products.  But my focus abroad will be in the sales department of their industrial coatings for their wind turbine blades as well as learning how the coatings are produced in the labs.  I got a lot of great feedback about my blog while I was studying abroad in Salzburg last year, and it convinced me to continue to write about my adventures in my new career.

I will be living in a tiny city a few kilometers outside of Bremen, Germany called Osterholz-Scharmbeck.  But my home base will pretty much be in Bremen, which is in it’s own state known as the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, which is the smallest of Germany’s 16 states.  Bremen is a city of 550,000 people, it’s the 11th largest city in Germany and 3rd largest city in the north behind Hamburg and Berlin.

I can’t wait to get to work and to travel in this new region of Europe.  Being in Salzburg last Spring I was easily able to travel to the east to countries like Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, but now I will be able to easily travel to the nations in Scandinavia, Belgium and France which are all new territory for me!

I don’t plan on writing too often, maybe once or twice a month as obviously my focus will be on my job and not traveling as often as possible like it was last Spring.  It will be a new and exciting chapter of my life and you are all welcome to follow along just like last year!  Until next time, Auf Wiedersehen!!