My final days in the DANK office have been very busy as well as productive. After mailing out all of those dues invoices, we have already received some back! How quick! I enjoy opening the dues envelopes because the members at DANK have some real personality. It is fun to Read more »
This week at DANK has been very productive. We have completely finished the dues drive. All of those envelopes and paper cuts – auf wiedersehen. After all the envelopes were stuffed, I got to vacuum the office. It was very dusty in the office from the bits of paper flying Read more »
Any fan of the Beatles should know that they recorded German language versions of some of their songs. Well now you can easily download 2 of their popular songs in German now that iTunes carries their music. “Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand” (“I want to Hold Your Hand”) and “Sie Read more »
It is dues season. At this time of the year, every member receives what is similar to an invoice, inviting them to continue their membership with DANK. Although it is a very exciting time at DANK, with Thanksgiving and Christmas approaching with a seeming sense of immediacy (did anyone else Read more »
This week at DANK has been pretty exciting. I got to stuff envelopes and send them to the chapter presidents about the options that are available for holiday ads in the German -American Journal. The office has this really cool mail machine that I have never seen before. It can Read more »
The day I began my internship, I was nervous. Only travelling to the location one time before for my interview, I had an idea of how far away the location was yet was unsure of the travel times at this time in the day, especially since the CTA is Read more »
What an eventful past month it’s been! When we returned from the Oktoberfest tour it was time to celebrate German Unity day and German-American day. We actually returned from Germany on German Unity day, October 3 and in Germany the celebrations and retro-views were all over TV. The next day Read more »
We made it back from Germany safe and sound just in time for German Unity day celebrations by the Chicago German Consul General and German-American day several days later. After our short breather along the Mosel, we continued to Munich to meet up with Fred Schumacher, President of Hofbräu of Read more »