Field trips ? UALR International Business Trip to Erfurt, Germany

I apologize for the lack of posts in the last week. Our time here as been crazy and packed with activities and other adventures.

Last week continued with more lectures, guest speakers, and field trips. On Friday night, we had our mid-term ceremony (more on that in a following post).

Last Wednesday afternoon (Aug. 29), we all went outside to the university?s courtyard for several organizational behavior-related activities. In one, we were divided into the groups we were going to be in to create our business plans. But instead of working on a business plan, we were each given four or five pieces of paper, each with a clue. We were all to share our clues with each other ? by telling, not showing each other our slips of paper ? so we could put the clues together and solve a problem. The ultimate goal of the exercise was not the math (which was a good thing for most of the groups) but to see how we all work together and communicate within our groups.

In another exercise, we were all given slips of paper, but this time with the name of an animal. We were told to close our eyes, make the noise of our given animal, and find the others making the same noise. My animal was a bird. I?ll admit, I had to open my eyes part of the time ? I didn?t want to run into something or fall over. I finally found my group despite the the differences in our calls; I was saying ?tweet tweet? (perhaps indicative of too much time on Twitter?) while the others went ?chirp chirp.? (Another bunch of students had the challenge of determining what sound a fish makes.)

On Thursday (Aug. 30) we visited Erfurter Sportbetriebe ? a multi-use sports arena which included a large ice skating rink, a speed (ice) skating track, an indoor arena, and an outdoor arena. An Olympic medalist even made an appearance. Daniela Anschultz-Thoms, 2006 Olympic speed skating champion was kind enough to join us at the arena.

On Friday (Aug. 31), we traveled about an hour to a golf resort in Blankenhain. It was gorgeous out there. We were all even given brief golf lessons ? a try at the driving range and then putting. I?ve been to a driving range once and have played miniature golf many times, but this was my first trip to an actual golf course. And surprisingly, I wasn?t bad! (Well, when my club actually came into contact with the ball.)

? Shannon

Source: http://ualrerfurt.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/field-trips/

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