A get-up-and-go attitude is needed.

X-mas Party

Katharina's Farewell Party

Feeling so shock with cultures even inside the company and outside, which are quite different from one country to another one, I was in trouble dealing with cultural differences, understanding one another as each of us has different beliefs and thinking, and communicating with other people.  As of the start month of my internship on the 10^th of October, 2012, I spent most of my time learning only to understand how to communicate well with other people from different countries. Having been born in Asia, my thought and beliefs are more straight to Asian style, which is quite far different from Western style.   

Harish, Vijay, and Antje

Still I had to deal with it as yet, but learned a lot from this situation.  Already admitted in Schwarzkopf Professional team for about two months, I still needed a lot of effort to run to meet "the challenges" in every single day of my work as working style from European people is quite fast and more straight to the point, which is quite different from Asia ones, whose speech and communication are more likely circle before getting to the point. Thus, I had to restructure my speech and thinking to adapt to international style.  Before I felt so disappointed with my English ability as I could not understand people whilst they are talking, thoroughly through phoning, it seemed quite difficult to cope with before getting used to it. I, however, managed to improve myself from day-to-day basis to tackle with this quite hard yet interesting situation.  

Farewell Party for Yui

Providing that I were demotivated with my job, I would not have learnt quite a lot from this meaningful time with this German conglomerate – where almost all students throughout the world would dream of being selected or considered as an intern – and professional people. Having a good habit of asking around or being aware of self-progress, I deemed to change myself and enhanced my weaknesses while still keeping furthering my strengths.   From time to time, I saw a lot of changes I could make.

Birthday Dinner for Jean Jacque

If I were not in such a challenging situation, I could not probably make it visible and fruitful as I could see today. Thanks to the past time I have been through and thanks to my parents who always encourage me I know and understand well about the meaning of struggling life. Having lived through it, I learn how to use disadvantage situations to get stronger in moving on in life and promise myself to encourage others to do the same. Every single job needs us with a bit of get-up-and-go.  That is the only thing we all can go further in life. Do not stumble from all challenging things in life as all problems will experience us not to downplay our life.