long day.

first of all, i apologize in advance because the y and z are backwards on this kezboard. see? ugh. i´m trying.

Today is Tuesday. After getting up crazy early, we loaded the bus to Black and Decker. Mrs. Fields had a student a while back who works for black and decker in maryland, so he and another colleague, came to Prague to show us around! i think they were doing other things too, but they planned it to meet up with us so it was fun. very nice having peolpe who spoke perfect english and who could give us an american approach too.

ralph and the other guy whose name i cant remember rode the bus with us to Usti. the plant was in Usti- a little town about an hour out of prague. after arriving at the plant, ian, the plant manager talked to us about his plant. im pretty much in love with ian. hes from scotland and has an amazing accent. he moved to usti to run the plant and he does a sweet job- the usti plant is pretty much the most successful b & d plant out there. anyway, his lecture was really good. hes a great operations guy so it was helpful for me to hear it. i left the room thinking hmmm maybe i could do this with my life. but THEN we went on the tour. it was just so boring. slightly interesting because it applied to things i had learned in class, but overall i just dont care about screwdrivers and hammers. the tour was kinda cool though. darren got to use this massive hammer to put a hole in concrete so that was funny.

after that we had lunch at b & d. it was very overwhelming and very czech. eventually this guy told us how to say french fries and then life was good. after lunch we went back upstairs to listen to ralph and the other guy tell us about b & d and basically try to convince us to work for them. it sounds like a good company but you have to be willing to move a lot and i donät think im down with that.

after a long bus ride back, i crashed. the black and decker guys wanted to take us all out for a drink so we went to this place called the beer factory. it was cool- they had taps right on the table and it kept track of how much beer you poured and then just charged for however much it was. kinda cool. some of us decided to just stay for dinner- bad idea. i got the fajitas. or "fah ji tas" as the waiter said it. they were gross and expensive and i was sad. oh well.

we went back to the hotel and relaxed for a while and then went back to the beer factory that night. good times all around.