Today we had some more lectures to attend, mostly on doing business in Chile. The speaker was an industrial engineer who spoke surprisingly good English. They provided a lot of good information, not only on Chilean culture and business, but for all countries of South America. The information was really valuable background information for someone looking to do business in Chile. After the lectures we got on our tour bus and took a driving tour of Viña del Mar and Valparaiso. The weather was beautiful and a lot of good information was provided to us by a professor at the university, Monica Kuntsmann. We were taken to a lot of striking lookouts over the city and the ocean. Chile’s geography is rather unordinary, but provides a great variety of landscapes and country sides to see. The tour ended with an overlook point on the ocean with the sun setting in the background. In the afternoon we attended a barbeque provided by Werner and his students at his apartment complex. A few students came to teach us the fundamentals of "reggaeton" dance. For dinner we ate mini sausage hotdogs and meat skewers cooked over an open flame. It felt good to just relax and get to know the Chilean students better one on one as opposed to in a classroom setting. We came home fairly early to prepare for what we had to do the next day - our first company visits to a produce packaging company and the steel recycling plant.
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