The International Management Class ’06 got up early this morning to start another valuable and salutary day. We got to know Mr. Stephan Braune, a German businessman and member of the "Deutscher Wrischaftsclub Siebenbürgen". He took us to a factory of a firm ( http://www.mondostar.ro/en/index.php ) fabricating suits. We had the possibility to get to see the whole process of this fabrication inclusive talks with a representative of the firm who gave us valuable information and answers to our curious questions.

After the long journey yesterday, about seven hours from Bucharest to Hermannstadt, it was not easy for us to get up early. The “show” had to go on and alarm went off at 7 am to wake us up! We had to be ready and be in the bus by 8 am. The dress code was formal, because we were to attend two important presentations this day and an international conference on environment.

Well, when we got up early this morning nearly no one could imagine what an intense but also exciting day would lay ahead of us. Having finished breakfast and the entire luggage packed the IM class took a seat in their comfortable bus and headed right away to the Academy of Economics. After a warm welcoming and a first socializing with some domestic students the class enjoyed an interesting tour through the, let’s say, antique university. While the class rooms remembered at granny’s anecdotes the student accommodations, which are allocated only to the best scholars, resembled more reformatories. Our tour guide however declared that all the buildings will be renovated within the next 2 to 3 years.

9.00 – nobody except the responsible people stand in front of the bus, waiting for the others

9.02 – some people are coming

9.03 – half of the present people forgot the passport and have to go back to get it

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At 8 o’clock we met at Zurich Airport, some were on time, some late, some very late and some didn’t even turn up….

After a quick check-in we had a wonderful flight with a ham or cheese sandwich and arrived safely in Bucuresti. We were welcomed by a very charming Romanian Tour Guide, who introduced us to our bus driver Andrej. He will join us during the whole trip.

We then started our guided sightseeing tour through Bucuresti. We saw many astonishing buildings, but what impressed us most were those many fountaines with colorful water, each representing a county (the water in this fountain is actually blue)

Study Trip to Romania 1st – 6th July 2007

International Management Class 2006/07
Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Join us on our Study Trip to Romania. We inform you in this blog about our study trip to Romania from 1st – 6th July. We are the International Management Class 2006/07 of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur.

The International Management Program includes a study trip at the end of the first and the second semester. We have chosen Romania for our second study trip because Romania has just entered the European Union – and we want to find out what this means for Romania. We have an intense program; so get all the information about our findings and experiences in this blog.