Well, it’s Friday, June 29th, and today is my last day as an intern at NCR. Really unbelievable how fast time has flown by for me. It doesn’t seem so long ago I was at the Jade Palace Hotel packing up my things, saying goodbye to everyone, and getting ready to go to my host family’s apartment for the first time. Just crazy.
In any event for our last day here Julie and I finished up our second Kaizen project. This time we created a .asx website that would automatically display the status of all the ATMs on the factory floor, giving it in a real time, easy to use display that would track how far the different teams are on their machines. Apparently, hard as it is to believe, the supervisors and team leaders really like both of our projects. When we gave them instructions on using it they all shook their heads thoughtfully and said (in Chinese) it would be very useful. It feels good to contribute something in this second week. Julie has been taking a bunch of pictures of people and things at NCR - I will have to mooch off those photos. Not much else to say about events for today.
Since this will be my last blog post, I had hoped to summarize my epic foreign language trip experience. And it has been an epic one. Looking back I cannot believe how much I have done. In two and a half weeks I went to Shanghai, Xian, Zhengzhou, Chengde, and Beijing. I climbed Mt. Huasheng, scaled the Great Wall, saw the Terracotta Soldiers, watched Chinese opera, and did too many other things to put in a blog post I have five minutes left of my coffee break to write. Then I got the amazing opportunity to spend an additional two and a half weeks with a family in Beijing, living and working with them. Coleman and Janet have been wonderful; I am extremely happy I could stay with them. I will wrap it up here, simply by saying that China has been great, and after five weeks I am looking forward to returning to Carolina. That’s about it, -Ben Goldhaber
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