After a long night, today’s rough morning began with another lecture at the University from Jose. Today we learned about Chile’s cultural differences when it comes to business, music, dance, and many other things. I think I would like to do business in Chile much more than in America. Business in Chile is much more relaxed and you can show up late to almost anything. Jose told us that a meeting scheduled to be one our long will consist of talking about your family and sports for forty minutes and business for the last twenty. This sounds much nicer than the uptight way the USA does business. I’ve noticed that Chileans are also friendlier than the people in the USA in general. All except the man that cussed out a few of us in McDonald’s last night for no reason. Jose also told us about a program Chile has called Start up Chile. This company allows entrepreneurs from other parts of the world to come start their business in Santiago. The government will help the entrepreneur by giving him or her the capital needed to start his or her business. The program seems to be very successful thus far. After learning all about business in Chile, we watched some Chilean advertisements and learned about the music in all parts of Chile. After the lecture, we were off to our second company visit at Nature’s Farm. Nature’s Farm is a mushroom company about an hour away from our hotel. We got to see how mushrooms are grown, packaged, and sold. Although there was an unpleasant smell throughout the company, it was a very interesting and informative visit. I had no idea to grow mushrooms, you need to make a special compost for the mushrooms to grow in. The process was very interesting; it included the fermentation of straw and a few other steps before the compost was ready. After we learned all about the creating of the compost, we got to go in the rooms that held all the incubating mushrooms. The room was cold and dark with mushrooms stacked in boxes 11 stories high! I will post a picture of the mushrooms in the incubator below. We also got to put on hair nets and face masks to go to the room where they package the mushrooms. The company packages around 50,000 packages of mushrooms a day! Touring the mushroom company was an extremely interesting experience. After the tour, we headed back to the university for our last dance class. Now it is time for me to get ready to go out with the Chilean students! I’m looking forward to visiting the winery tomorrow!
After a long night, today’s rough morning began with another lecture at the University from Jose. Today we learned about Chile’s cultural differences when it comes to business, music, dance, and many other things. I think I would like to do business in Chile much more than in America. Business in Chile is much more relaxed and you can show up late to almost anything. Jose told us that a meeting scheduled to be one our long will consist of talking about your family and sports for forty minutes and business for the last twenty. This sounds much nicer than the uptight way the USA does business. I’ve noticed that Chileans are also friendlier than the people in the USA in general. All except the man that cussed out a few of us in McDonald’s last night for no reason. Jose also told us about a program Chile has called Start up Chile. This company allows entrepreneurs from other parts of the world to come start their business in Santiago. The government will help the entrepreneur by giving him or her the capital needed to start his or her business. The program seems to be very successful thus far. After learning all about business in Chile, we watched some Chilean advertisements and learned about the music in all parts of Chile. After the lecture, we were off to our second company visit at Nature’s Farm. Nature’s Farm is a mushroom company about an hour away from our hotel. We got to see how mushrooms are grown, packaged, and sold. Although there was an unpleasant smell throughout the company, it was a very interesting and informative visit. I had no idea to grow mushrooms, you need to make a special compost for the mushrooms to grow in. The process was very interesting; it included the fermentation of straw and a few other steps before the compost was ready. After we learned all about the creating of the compost, we got to go in the rooms that held all the incubating mushrooms. The room was cold and dark with mushrooms stacked in boxes 11 stories high! I will post a picture of the mushrooms in the incubator below. We also got to put on hair nets and face masks to go to the room where they package the mushrooms. The company packages around 50,000 packages of mushrooms a day! Touring the mushroom company was an extremely interesting experience. After the tour, we headed back to the university for our last dance class. Now it is time for me to get ready to go out with the Chilean students! I’m looking forward to visiting the winery tomorrow!
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