After breakfast on Day 6, the 2019 Cohort boarded a bus to travel to the suburb town of Poricany to tour and visit Czechia's oldest and enduring engineering castings manufacturer: Benes a Lat. We were met by Josef Lat, Commercial Director. Benes a Lat has been in business for many years. During the Communist occupation, the company was assumed by the government, but when the Soviet Union fell, ownership reverted back to the founding family. Josef is a ver...

Imagine you were giving the opportunity to move to Prague and had to, at a moments notice, had to find a place to live, open a bank account, obtain a loan and start a business to support yourself, and find ways to invest your money. That is the puzzle that the 2019 Cohort had to solve during their Culture Immersion Exercise. The Cohort visited the offices of International Study Programs (the architects of this international tour) to participate in a practic...

Bright and early, the 2019 Cohort walked to the Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel to meet with the General Manger, Michal Chour. The Alcron is a historical hotel in the City of Prague. Built in 1932, it remained independent during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia only to be seized by the communist government after the war. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the hotel returned to private ownership and closed. In 1996, it changed ownership and the ne...

Day 4 of the trip began with a traditional Czech breakfast and a walking tour of Prague…for most of the Cohort. Some of the members were still pretty beat up from the intense walking tour of Munich and stayed in their hotel rooms to recover. The afternoon was a day of leisure, allowing the Cohort members to explore the city on their own. Some walked all the way up the hill to Prague Castle. Others visited Lennon's Wall. Some visited the Strahov Library...

After a long bus ride and with full bellies, the 2019 Cohort arrived in Prague to check into the Hotel Century (located in the old town square next to the astronomical clock) after 9:00 pm. Goodnight world, we will explore Prague in the morning.