This time I had to sort and count birthday, engagement, wedding, anniversary, christening, etc cards first. That it looks better and so that we know from which cards we have to order new ones. Then I had to sort shelves and finally I was allowed to collect. I really liked it. 

The next time I had to reorganize a bookshelf and put it back in the right order. The books were about mental help, diets, dream body building, depression, how to deal with losses and the like.  

In the fourth week, I sorted the children's and teenagers' books by author's last name on the shelf and filled in gaps in the book series when we had the right one. After that, I had to sort and arrange books and toys at three stands for toddlers. 

I was unable to come to my internship a few times due to illness, the mid term break and badminton.

The next time I could come in, I had to put some new books and games that came in into the wright shelves. Then I had to try a new product. It was something for children to make. I first made a whale out of cardboard templates and after a few complications it worked well. Then I was allowed to choose and make two more animals. It was a tiger and a hummingbird. In the end, I had a water animal, a land animal and an air animal to present as finished specimens.Then I had to rearrange exercise books at the back so that the shelves were tidier and clearer. After the space was created, I had to clear school books from the front of the shop to the now free shelves.

On my last day I sorted the children's book shelves and the children's toy shelf again, reorganised them and made sure that all the same and matching things were together. Then I got a present and was allowed to leave early because another employee came to help out and they didn't need me anymore.

I had to sort the books in a shelves, with children books, after the author's surnames first. Then I had to go to a shelf where there were lots of books and notebooks all mixed up, find all the books that had something to do with Ireland and put them in a compartment. Then I was allowed to clear the new orders that came in with the best sellers. After that I had to vacuum the back area and then do a bit of selling.

We also made two hot chocolate bubbles. One with marshmallows and one with kecks crumble. For this, the cocoa powder had to be filled first and then the corresponding topping.

Over time and production, we have continued to improve our product. Production went faster and the chocolates looked better and better. Separately, we took many orders. In between there was a lot of heckling and misunderstandings or differences of opinion in the team, but they were all resolved.

We had a bit of stress before the Christmas fair as we weren't sure whether we would get all the chocolate orders produced. As we were able to work through a whole day at school, we luckily managed to get everything done.

1) "secondhand" smokers. This means that if you always stand next to a person when they smoke, you end up with lungs as bad as theirs.

2) Smoking also affects you more than you think. For example, it can aggravate wounds and injuries, causing them to fester.

3) As soon as you inhale, the nicotine is in your brain within 10 seconds. Nicotine makes you addicted.

4) Even if you don't inhale all the way into your lungs but just leave it in your mouth and then exhale again, it causes just as much damage, just in different places.

5) More than 5,000 chemical substances are inhaled when pulling on a cigarette/vape. These clog the bronchioles, making it harder to breathe. Breathing so quickly also causes the heart to beat faster in the long term. This often causes heart attacks. The substances that are deposited in the lungs look like a spinny, greasy liquid. The lungs also turn black.

They explained different perspectives and their functions. For example, the beginning of a scene is often filmed from further away so that you can see where the scene is taking place and possibly get an idea of the mood. The next image is then, for example, of a person closer with the surroundings around them and the third is directly very close to the person so that you can recognise the feelings and the mood. Next, different camera angles were shown and explained how they are used. People are often filmed from below who are supposed to look powerful, scary, very tall or models you look up to. From above is filmed when someone is supposed to look very small, scared, shy or when it is a small child (compared to adults).

We were then told how to use the tablets and what kind of videos we could make (music videos, documentaries, film scenes, etc.).

My group decided to make a music video for the song "Santa tell me" by Ariana Grande. We were shown again how to make good transitions (zooming into one colour and out of the same colour in the next scene). Mr Ryen happened to have some Christmas decorations that we could use. At first we tried to recreate the original music video, but then we quickly added our own ideas. There was lip-singing, gymnastics and other performances. Once we had shot all the scenes, we edited them together on the iPad using iMovie. The end result was good.

All in all, the workshop was a lot of fun!

On the first day we were assigned an international linesman to our team. As we were in Group A, we were the first to be allowed out onto the court. It was a mixed doubles. Later on, we also judged singles. The day ran in such a way that we always judged one game, then had a break and then judged again. Fortunately, I didn't make any mistakes throughout the day and was always able to clearly determine the points.

As we had a lot of fun, we were allowed to stay longer and only went home at 8pm instead of 4pm. In return we got free dinner, it was very good.

The second day was similar to the first. I judged singles and doubles. The matches became a bit more challenging to judge. The players hit the shuttlecock harder and the movement was faster. This made some decisions less clear, but everything worked out without any mistakes. During the breaks, we got to know many international line judges, as there were some from German-speaking countries. It was very nice and there was good dialogue.

On the third day, we were assigned new international linesmen, as not all the linesmen from the first day were still there. The performance and the level of the players also improved on the third day. You could see it in the length of the matches. Many had to play three rounds because the performance was even. This meant that we linesmen also had to concentrate for longer. The games often lasted up to an hour. On the court where I judged, there were again singles as well as doubles.

Overall, I really enjoyed the experience and had a great time both on and off the court. If I have the opportunity I would love to do it again. For this reason, Lissy and I have applied to the German Badminton Association and are in contact with them.

It was one of the best experiences of the transition year.

We had a bit of stress before the Christmas fair as we weren't sure whether we would get all the chocolate orders produced. As we were able to work through a whole day at school, we luckily managed to get everything done.

Sales didn't go very well at the beginning and we were afraid that we wouldn't be able to get rid of our 35 to 40 pre-produced chocolates. After an hour we still had quite a few. However, we somehow managed to sell almost all of them and in the end there were only two left, which I took home for my host family.

Overall, the Christmas fair was a lot of fun, even if it was stressful at times beforehand.

The experience has also given me personally a better insight into business and a better understanding of the business world. I would do it again any time.

Then a man and a woman who have been working in IT for several years told us about their day-to-day jobs. They then gave us a simple presentation explaining how the systems they work with work and how to program them. It was explained with the example of "Spotify", a music app. If you enter a letter in the search bar, artists and songs that start with this letter are suggested directly. Even if you enter part of a song lyric, the app can recognize it. And even if you don't spell a title correctly, for example because you mistype it, the correct one will still be displayed. All these functions can be created through programming.

It is difficult to explain programming without a sketch. But basically you can say that there are certain formalities that you have to write at the beginning before you start programming properly. Then you give commands that only need to be varied minimally depending on what exactly you want to achieve with this command. The commands also have rules of characters before and after the command that must be used so that the program understands it. For example, { must be placed before all commands and } after all commands, and ; must be placed again after each individual command. Numbers must often be enclosed in brackets. Depending on the command, certain words must be written in certain upper and lower case letters and if there are several words, a . must usually be placed between them. Due to all the rules and the spelling with many characters, it is often easy to make a mistake. However, once you have finished writing a sketch, you can have it checked by the app you are using to write it. If you have made a mistake, the line in which it was made is marked and in some cases the exact error is written. This sometimes makes it easier to find mistakes.

In principle, programming consists of writing facts or commands into a program. To do this, you have to memorize the respective spellings for certain commands (these days, however, you can also quickly write them down). Then you test the sketch and if errors occur, you discover them, find them and correct them.