I’ve always loved travelling and really felt like I “grow up” taking trips like these. I really enjoyed my time in Berlin and, as I’ve said way too many times on this blog, I really love its culture. Naturally, I want to go back and see what I can get done, so I figured I should go around networking and seeing what I can get for an internship. But in just learning how to ask/hint around for one, I feel like I’ve learned a pretty valuable skill!
I mean, it was usually pretty easy asking the people I knew well, like Silvia or Norbert,
but asking at some of the site visits we went to was a bit more difficult as the people presenting the company to us are pretty much total strangers. But you know, for times like that, you can count on your friends on breaking the ice: even when you don’t have much of an intention of doing so. I remember at the Sound Branding firm, I was talking to the guy about the programs they used and a bit about the company, and eventually it was just me, him, and Denise left and I was about to go and Denise was stopped me completely and had the guy give me his business card and encouraged me to go and fetch an internship from the whole thing. It was awkward, but hey I appreciated it, haha.
But I feel like it takes a certain confidence to ask for an internship, especially when you’re worried about being totally under qualified for one: I don’t speak German, I’m only 19, and would have just 2 years of college experience. The only thing I really have going for me is my Spanish citizenship that basically just permits me to work/live in Germany. Still, mustering up the courage to ask, I believe, is part of that whole “growing up” thing I mentioned earlier, which I think is still a big thing for me being the youngest of everyone in the Berlin group. Still, the quality of my work was up to par with everyone else, which is something I’m very proud of.
Regardless, I’m still trying to do the hardest part about searching for an internship, which is following up. I really have to get on that and email the people that said they could pull a few strings for me internship-wise. I mean, my chances of actually landing the internship are still rather slim, but it definitely won’t stop me from trying.
