Day 6 - Unique Furniture, Pirates, and Fish

ABB - sales and marketing building: Molndal, Sweden

Our morning adventure led us to ABB, a company similar to the US company General Electric. Our professor, JJ Shields, worked at ABB for nearly ten years in the robotics division. His boss, project manager Burt Thorvaldsson, gave us a presentation about the company with special emphasis on robotics and how automation affects the world market.

ABB provided lunch and it was great, any opportunity for free food in Sweden is well appreciated as the standard fish'n chips tonight cost me $25 US. The highlight was the bakery afterwards. We all got a chocolate dipped pastry filled with mousse. None of us could understand the Swedish word for the pastries, so we'll just call them heaven.

Sofa at Volvo Truck, poor for napping

Almost everywhere we have gone so far, the lounges have been interesting, to say the least. Strange furniture must be the style in Gothenburg.

ABB lobby

After finishing lunch, we headed back to the University to a conference on the maritime shipping industry. Some presentations focused on the Chinese influence in shipping distribution and the global recession but the most interesting was one on shipping piracy. After nearly an hour presentation, I now know what to do in case my cargo ship is boarded by Somalian pirates.

Chariot racing was on TV when we went to bed last night.  Number 5 won.

Today, when I was talking with a global market genius about the sustainability of Chinese high-tech industry growth at the shipping conference, I though of how lucky I am to be in Sweden and not studying the fundamentals of philosophy in women's history back in Kenosha.
Hope to tell of more adventures tomorrow.