Monday, March 30 - Today, we have two visits. One to a HUGE pharmecutical organization called AstraZeneca. Stefan (Alison's host) met with us and told us about the business - - it is a HUGE world-wide organization and their facility in Molndal is primarily an R & D site with about 2500 employees.
Our second visit was to IKEA - no, not just shopping!
We met with the Social & Environmental Affairs coordinator who shared with us some of the things that IKEA has been doing from an Environmental, Social, etc. THEN, we had some time to shop!!!
Our last engagement of the day was coordinated by Anders from Partille. He managed to get us tickets to a musical event put on by the local university that pokes fun at a popular song contest program in Europe. The university version is known as SMASK and was VERY funny!!!! The winning group sung a song about "Amerika" and it was written by one of the students as well as being performed by the students (singers AND orchestra directed by a student).
So, after a somewhat late night.... I had a little packing to do before an early start on Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 31 - our last day in Molndal. I
was up and ready for breakfast by 7:15 Am - - I have to ease back into my 6 AM start schedule because next week is going to be BRUTAL! It was difficult to say goodbye to Anita and Sven - - they have been TERRIFIC hosts and I've enjoyed staying out in the country for a few days.
We made a stop this morning at the Stadhuset of Molndal and met with a man about the structure of
the local government / how things are funded / how the taxes are used / etc. On the first floor of the building, in addition to a little coffee shop with coffee, tea & treats, they had this really cool photographic layout of Molndal on the floor.....
Our second visit was to IKEA - no, not just shopping!
We met with the Social & Environmental Affairs coordinator who shared with us some of the things that IKEA has been doing from an Environmental, Social, etc. THEN, we had some time to shop!!!Our last engagement of the day was coordinated by Anders from Partille. He managed to get us tickets to a musical event put on by the local university that pokes fun at a popular song contest program in Europe. The university version is known as SMASK and was VERY funny!!!! The winning group sung a song about "Amerika" and it was written by one of the students as well as being performed by the students (singers AND orchestra directed by a student).
So, after a somewhat late night.... I had a little packing to do before an early start on Tuesday.
Tuesday, March 31 - our last day in Molndal. I
was up and ready for breakfast by 7:15 Am - - I have to ease back into my 6 AM start schedule because next week is going to be BRUTAL! It was difficult to say goodbye to Anita and Sven - - they have been TERRIFIC hosts and I've enjoyed staying out in the country for a few days.We made a stop this morning at the Stadhuset of Molndal and met with a man about the structure of
the local government / how things are funded / how the taxes are used / etc. On the first floor of the building, in addition to a little coffee shop with coffee, tea & treats, they had this really cool photographic layout of Molndal on the floor.....See you all very soon!!! Thanks so much for all of your support during this adventure!
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