Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Day Three, May 10th.

Today we got up at 10:00 AM to leave at 10:15 AM, our alarm had not gone off so Chris had to wake us up.
We headed down to the university after having a quick breakfast at the hotel. We had a class on Chilean and Latin American business culture and history. We learned a lot of in depth information about how business was done. Our teacher, Jaime, is an engineer and businessman, he is very knowledgeable about a variety of business topics. We took a break in the middle of class to have lunch at the cafeteria again. We had some extra time so we used the computer lab to do our last blog post. The keyboard in the computer lab was different than those in the United States; they had a different key for the @ sign, and had a key for the N with a tilde on top.
After lunch and the computer lab, we continued our class on business. After learning more about business gave our old power point presentations on the companies we will be visiting to our teacher Jaime. He asked very good, in-depth questions about our companies and helped us learn more about them. We also had a new presentation on a mushroom company.
After class we had a lesson in Reggeton. It is a much more sexual type of danceing than Salsa, and a lot of us were uncomfortable with some of the moves, but it was a lot of fun.
After the dance lesson, we went to McDonalds for dinner, and a supermarket to buy some water and snacks.
After shopping we went to a discotecho to try to dance, but we could not get in without I.D. so we instead went to a bar; this was the first time I have been IDed in Chile.

Lessons Learned: 1. Chile is working on increaseing its innovation rate
2. There was a huge ammount of inflation in Latin America due to the houseing market crash in the United States.

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