Today we met with our client, Sole & Bonta. They are a food production company that focuses on maintaining a home made image. Their goal is to have us present them with recommendations to expand into the French, German, Swiss and Austrian food markets. Taylor's group focuses on expanding into the French and German market, and Nicole's group focuses on expanding into the Swiss and Austrian market. We carpooled with the Italian students to the Sole & Bont...

Today was an awesome day! The Italians took us to one of the beaches on the the Adriatic Sea, and we spent the day enjoying the sun and delicious wine! Most of the beaches here are rock beaches, which is interesting, but it is nice not to have to deal with all of the sand. Later today we went to an Italian reggae concert that was also on the beach. That was....interesting haha. But that was pretty much all we did today, and tomorrow we start working on our pr...

Today we got to meet our Italian students that we will be working with for the next two weeks! They are all so nice and speak English really well. We split off into our project teams and the Italian students took us on a tour of Ancona. They did a great job of showing us around! Later today we went to Lorento and visited a cathedral. The significance of this cathedral is to visit the "Lady of Loreto". Their lady (the virgin Mary) is black in Loreto. Th...

Today Teen and I had our first supermarket experience. It was a quaint little establishment and nobody spoke English. haha I got yelled at for touching produce. Apparently in Italy it is "dirty" for customers to grab their own produce. But me, being the disgusting person that I am, had no problem with getting my nasty hands all over it. Taylor and I bought some lunch meat to make sandwiches and some snack food and cereal. We had to buy milk which was ...

Ciao Everyone! Our travel experience was quite interesting today. First off, I got Taylor to read her first big girl book. I chose "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" for her to keep her occupied. It worked. It took us around 20hours to finally reach our destination in Ancona. Sleeping on the plane was a complete fail due to the fact that there was no room. Taylor and I tried every sleeping position possible and probably looked like lesbians to other tr...