Day Three - Down to Business

Today we got started on the reason we are all here - visiting businesses in Croatia. Our first stop was the Zagreb Chamber of Economy where we learned about all the beautiful places here as well as the economy and how things are going. It truly was an interesting presentation but it felt strange to keep hearing about the European Union instead of the U.S. After that we were at Coca Cola and Ericcson Nikola Tesla corporations. They were all informative, but I fear jet lag was plaguing our group. That and the fact that we skipped lunch to make each of the presentations.

In our short two days here we have already learned a great deal about Nikola Tesla, the man. He was more responsible for electricity than Thomas Edison and invented over 700 things that were patented in America. He is even considered one of the greatest geniuses of the millennium. One little item of information that I found interesting is that Tesla predicted in 1925 that man would be able to get the news, not from a paper, but over the airways. He also said that it would be possible to see events in real time. He sounds like a man ahead of his time.



The architecture here is amazing. I am including a few shots here with more to come tomorrow. I have tried to get the entire group to pose for a photo outside one of the businesses we visited, but our schedule today was so hectic that we never had the time to stop and get everyone together for a photo. Tomorrow is another day and I'll give it shot once again. The plan for today was to post a video of one of our students telling his reaction to the visits and what he thought of them and what he learned. Unfortunately, the videos would not upload to the blog. It seemed the computer was giving it a mighty effort, but after 2 hours of watching the "video uploading" sign, I decided it was never going to happen. Just in case, I plan to have Phil Hall and Diego Rodriguez write some things so you won't have to listen to only my ideas of what is going on.

It doesn't seem possible that we only have tomorrow here in Zagreb before we move on to Budapest. Time really does fly when you're having fun.