Author: chu232

Today being the final day of activities, we toured the Feyennoord Stadium of Rotterdam. It was cool to see how storied and historied the teams are in Europe. Reflecting on the trip, there were many highlights. The food, culture, factory tours, and history. I would say that it is easy to see the differences between. [...]

Taking river cruise to see the more industrial portions of the port, we were finally able to see supply chain in motion. I found interesting they mentioned that Rotterdam is becoming Europe's largest produce port, and with a new project to have a net zero cold storage warehouse. Seeing how Rotterdam is shifting its strategy [...]

today we visited the town of Delft, and saw historical Dutch windmills. The historical trading status of Delft made the city important as it was the main hub that goods flower through in Europe. The routes created trying to establish and maintain trade help shape the Dutch empire for better or for worse.

We took a biking tour of the Port of Rotterdam. An interesting fact was that during the 1800s the dockyard workers striker, so they brought in Chinese workers from London to break the strike. Due to the importance of Rotterdam being a commercial hub, the need for workers created one of the largest Chinese communities [...]

Today was a tour of Amsterdam by foot visiting various places with a Purdue alum. Afterwards we decided to tour the national Dutch Resistance Museum of WW2. During that exhibit I learned about how the early start other resistance formed and how they operated during Nazi occupation. Seeing how the awful conditions and treatment of [...]

Today we arrived in Rotterdam by train. After walking around on a food tour tasting Stroopwaffles and cheese, we saw an artificial wave machine for surfing. Due to the decline of use of canals, Rotterdam has tried to reclaim them for other purposes such as recreation or creating more land. Transitioning between different periods was [...]

Today we visited Dachau concentration camp. The detail out tour guide, Tobias went into gave more insight to the rise of Nazi power. Even today, similar strokes of how they gained power. The Russian Orthodox Church and it's story about how it was a monument to be permanent piece was a touching moment.

Today we had several hours to do an activity wit German MBA students . We did an activity and afterwards we played games. After those games, we spilt up into small groups and discussed various topics. Our group was discussing the situation in Germany, which is not too far from the US. Topics such as [...]

We toured the BMW Museum. Seeing the history of BMW and the various products they made shows how they developed as a company. How they started from various forms of transportation from air, landz and sea to what they are know for now. They also did have a significant section about their use for forced [...]

During the Munich city tour, our guide mentioned that the one of the local churches was unofficially the limit for the height of buildings in the city. She mentioned that after a modern skyscraper was built, they had a bite to ban all new modern buildings with over 80 percent voting no for more taller [...]