Day two of work! Day two of taking an online coding course. Day two of nearly falling asleep after 3 pm...

Honestly, though, I think I'm pretty lucky all things considered. I talked to many of the other interns about their jobs. Christine is doing research and sales, the only two aspects of marketing she doesn't enjoy. One of my internship friends is absolutely swamped with work and it's only day two. Another girl has been stocking shelves a grocery store all day, when she was promised a marketing position. Sure, I work long hours (too long, I think), but at least I like my coworkers and the stuff I'm doing now isn't too difficult.

It was nearling 6:30 at work today and I was really tired. Everyone else was still there, so I didn't want to leave. My German supervisor turned around (he was in the office today!) and gave me a funny look before basically telling me to go home and enjoy Berlin.

I need to learn to take more breaks and/or leave when I'm done being productive. I think that's a very German work attitude. (Or maybe just the tech industry in general). Americans work and work and then work some more. Germans have laws about how many hours they're allowed to work. Overtime is not really a thing here. Long vacations are expected. I really like it, but I'm going to have to get used to it and take advantage of it!

Okay, so, you're proably wandering at the title of this entry. A few days ago, Christine, Victoria, and I had bought some items from the grocery store that are illegal in the United States. No, I'm not talking about some kind of hard liquor or the unrefridgerated milk (which is really odd, by the way). I'm talking about something much more dangerous:

Kinder Suprise.

If you haven't heard of them, they're a chocolate egg for children (Literally Kinder means children). Inside of the chocolate egg, there is a plastic capsule with a toy. They're banned in the US because the toy inside is considered a choking hazard. It's kind of ridiculous. You're not going to accidently eat the toy. It's pretty big and very obviously not chocolate.

Anyway, tonight, we celebrated our first few days of work by enjoying Kinder Suprises. They were "jungle cat" themed, so we each got our very own plastic cat figures. We also got little race cars (okay, so, there may have been four kinder suprise eggs per package, so my diet is going really well as you can tell). I think we probably got more entertainment out of the toys than most children. 10/10 would recommend illegal chocolate again!