Friday, July 4, 2008

Auditors in Köln


So, last year I was asked to lead an English Seminar in Köln (Cologne) for a group of Bank Auditors. It sounded pretty daunting, but like a challenge I couldn't pass up. They were scheduled for two days (Fri and Sat) every month for a year, so it was a pretty big committment. The group ended up being really nice - we started with 6 men and were down to 4 within a few months (it wasn't me though :) , their work environment doesn't seem to be so great and so there is a high turnover). I scraped together audit cases and we worked our way through them - not the most entertaining of seminars I've ever given surely, but they didn't give me much to work with.

At any rate, they decided to continue this year, so here I am again up in Köln for a Friday night. Köln is only about a 1 1/2 train ride from Mainz (on the fast train) so it would be doable to go home in the evening, but one 6:09 train on Friday morning is enough for me. It's nice to "sleep in" on Saturday and have breakfast in the hotel. I have taken advantage of the English movie theater here in the city a few times and saw "Becoming Jane" and "Atonement" last year. I had a routine of going and eating sushi (yummmm - salmon nigri!), but I guess I won't be doing that this time :) Tonight I am going to walk around a bit, scrape something together for dinner and head to my hotel for a night of reading and being mad that nothing good is on TV.

5 comments:

IUgirl78 said...

That's so cool that you get to do that! Unfortunately my job never requires any travel, but I always think that would be neat to just be gone overnight...but especially some place in Europe would be really cool! Hope you found something good for dinner. ;)

APMom said...

I haven't been to Koeln since IU Honors in 95. I think I need to start planning a trip! ;)

Michelle said...

Yea!! Kelly is planning a trip! :)

APMom said...

Ok, don't get too excited, Michelle. I would like to start planning a trip, but getting Darren on that long of a plane ride is a whole other story! I'm working on it. Maybe I could just bring Ally.

Michelle said...

We'll be happy to have you, no matter what combination!!! (PS: I am free all next year!!)