American Interns 2008

Sunshine Moore at U.S. Consulate General Leipzig

U.S. intern Sunshine Lindsey Moore and German intern Thomas Bergmann

April–June 2008
Sunshine grew up in southern California and then Sacramento. Since high school, she has traveled to 17 countries in Western and Central Europe. She has taught English in Belgium and studied abroad in France. She received her B.A. in International Studies from the University of California, Irvine and moved to Dresden, Germany in 2005. Currently, she teaches English and studies international relations at Dresden University of Technology in the master’s program. Sunshine intends through her internship to promote German-American relations and to strengthen personal opinions of Americans and the United States. Her hobbies include snowboarding, cooking, and independent film. 

U.S. intern Janette McGrain and Consul for Public Affairs Mark Wenig

March-June 2008
Janette was born in Honolulu, Hawaii and grew up in Seattle, Washington and Wiesbaden, Germany, where she attended high school and studied for a year in Mainz.  Returning to Hawaii in 2004, she completed her B.Sc. in mathematics in Dec 2007, at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Seeking to renew her relations with Germans and the language and interested in philosophy of natural and social sciences, she participated in summer ’06 in Vienna University's Scientific World Conceptions program, and ’07 in Weimar Academy's philosophy summer course. A classical pianist herself, Janette enjoys the music and art life of Leipzig and is captivated by the history of the city and its surrounding regions. Janette sees her internship at the U.S. Consulate as an opportunity to represent the USA through engaging in dialogue with local communities and exchange on a personal level.