Grafton, WI

My flight back to Zurich, CH is scheduled to leave at 7 pm, my 3 suitcases are ready and I just closed my bank account. Except from some final cleanup and throwing-away in the appartment, I'm ready.

It's sad to leave this great country, I really enjoyed my stay and met some very special people here. Thanks everybody for everything!

But it's also time to look forward and get ready to meet the folks I left behind! I really missed every single one of you and I'll be glad to see you again!

Popular belief, at least in Germany: Every Starbucks has free Wireless Lan.
Reality: The one in Grafton doesn't have any, the one is Mequon is run by T-Mobile and costs $10/day
Even more frustrating: As it turned out, there's an open one right in front of my door. It's too weak to be used in my appartment, but works inside the van

As everybody knows, Europeans like to slander about the usage of imperial units of measurement in the UK and the United States. And it's quite hard, whereas I learned to estimate how much miles (~1.5km), foot (30cm) and fluid ounces (12 floz = one soda can) are, I still simply say "oh wow!", when someone tells me how many square feet a certain area is, simply because I usually have no clue how much it is.
But on the other hand, there are some imperial units that are in heavy use in European countries. Just read AutoBild or any other popular car magazine, and you'll always find the engine power specified in "Pferdestaerken"/Horsepower.



Shop for an LCD screen and choose between 17", 19" and 21", as you would in America. And if you prefer fresh and locally farmed vegetables over the stuff sold at grocery stores, you'll find a lot of people ordering a certain amount of pounds of potatoes, though a pound is usually simplified as 500 Grams.

Good luck that the report about my internship is almost complete, since I'm starting to get poetic in the conclusion

My internship at SKF Grafton as a junior quality manager gave me a deep insight into quality management and was the ideal sequel to my first internship at SKF in Maulburg, Germany as the developer of their quality management software MaQMa. Whereas that assignment was centered on its technical aspect and its architecture, MaQMa was only the tool in my hands this time when crafting SKF Grafton’s quality management system.

Isn't that a nice conclusion for the report about a wonderful time?

Thank you, America!

The imperial units of measurement. This wikipedia article seems cover the subject pretty well!

I didn't expect baseball games to be so much fun!

The Stadium...

Thanks to SKF for inviting me to this integral part of the American culture I would have missed otherwise!