Thursday, November 20, 2008

Geneva Day 2-November 15, 2008

Today we had class in the hotel, Cross Cultural Communication (CCC). The professor is awesome! He is teaching our negotiating class in April in Moscow...but I think I'm going to Dubai for that trip (I've been going back and forth on this decision and really cant go wrong on either choice.) If you ever get a chance to do a COI assessment I encourage you to take it!




Today we also went on a bus tour and had a group dinner-Fondu!










































More information on Geneva:




Geneva is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich). Situated where the Rhône River exits Lake Geneva it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva. The city proper had a population of 186,825 in June 2008 and the metropolitan area had 769,000 residents according to a 2005 census. The Geneva metropolitan area extends partly over Switzerland (517,000 inhabitants) and partly over France (251,000 inhabitants).




Geneva is a worldwide center for diplomacy and international cooperation, and is widely regarded as a global city, mainly because of the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nationsand the Red Cross. It is also the place where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.




A 2007 survey by
Mercer Consulting found Geneva to have the second-highest quality of life in the world (narrowly outranked by Zürich).








































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