whoops

my bad. published the last post without actually writing anything.

tuesday morning we heard from an american making mexican food products selling to the russians. really interesting and he definitely knew what he was talking about. was interesting to hear about all the difficulties he faces working in the russian system and all the loopholes he has to go threw. it was also interesting to hear about how putin (the leader of russia) is disliked by much of the world, but the majority of russians like him because he brought some stability to the economy after about a decade of chaos.

after spending 2 hours in traffic (normal in russia) we made it to the airport and flew to amsterdam (tuesday night), ate dinner about an hour outside the city, and spent the night there. wednesday we took a bus for about 8 hours to get to where we are currently staying, heidelberg, germany. on the way we stopped at koln germany and saw a really cool cathedral (and even got to walk up to the top).

today (thursday) we had three hours of class (i got a 93 on my last test. holla. our next one is Saturday). we then went to a John Deere factory and had about 4 hours of tours and presentations. interesting, but long, so i got bored pretty quickly due to my short attention span. i've realized through my travels i really don't do well with guided tours. i space out about 10 minutes into it. so imagine a 2 hour guided tour through the factory. amazing, but long.

last night a bunch of us spent a few hours walking around town, and now i am currently hanging out with a few friends in a little cafe that happened to have free wireless. tomorrow we have more classes then a tour of a Dailmer (buses) factory. i'm spending the rest of the night checking up on the news and ready two chapters for economics. shoot me an email, love to hear from you.