Call me Gerhard

The day had come. An even redder carpet was rolled out when the General Manager of Airbus Deutschland, Gerhard Puttfarcken, arrived on Juist to visit the Intercultural Seminar at the Jubi Juist.
So try to imagine how a General Manager introduces himself!? Maybe: “Hello, I’m Mr Puttfarcken from Airbus Deutschland and I’m glad to be here.” The answer is No. It was more like an unplugged performance. He didn}t want to be called Mr Puttfarcken he said: “You can call me Gerhard.”
The Hangar was equipped only with benches like in a beer garden, just the beer was missing Gerhard started the meeting with his own performance. Everybody was surprised that Gerhard played a song from Bob Dylan on the guitar for us. Everybody sang but nobody knew the words and so they sang lala lalalalalal la. After his music performance he told us something about his great life. He told us that he has been married for 33 years and only with one wife He studied MBA (Master Business Administration) at University
After he told us something about his unbelievable life Gerhard was ready to answer all the questions the apprentices had.
And so we had the feeling that we could get into contact with him.
Somebody wanted to know when the A380 will have it}s first flight. He said it will be in the first quarter in 2005 and everything for the Megaliner is in schedule
On the other side it was very important for the apprentices to know how Mr. Puttfarcken thinks about the September 11th and the effect and consequences after that. The answer everybody wanted to hear was: “AIRBUS is always reacting quickly to any problem”
At the end of the hour he said that he likes the JUBI and he enjoyed to talk with the apprentices. He also said that he envies us because he would like to be as young as we are and take part in a seminar like ours. But there is no way!!!!. But he is still young at heart.
Finally he had his first flight with the “AIRBUS” powered glider like all of us. He said “GolfGolf ready for departure 3-0 concrete” and took off.