Well today was bonkers!
We started off early this morning at about 8:45AM we met in the lobby and head through the tube to the U.S. Embassy to London. We heard from Mr. Richard Stanbridge who is the director of commercial services for the Embassy. In a nutshell, his department provides American Companies the assistance they need in exporting or investing (setting up operations) in London. He was very thorough and detailed and definitely knew what he was talking about. Getting into and out of the Embassy was even factored into our day. The amount of time it took to get into the building was about 45 minutes. Security is pretty tight and the building pretty old.
After we heard from Richard we headed out and saw the 9/11 British memorial which is outside of the Embassy and took some pictures. Next we headed to the Liverpool area where the EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) is headquartered. They are a public corporation owned by 63 countries yet the U.S. owns 10%, Japan 8%, Canada and Russia 3% and then the rest is made out of small investments by a large sum of investor states. Basically what the bank does is use the money provided to them by the investment nations to help invest in private and public sector projects that in the in the betterment of the human race and that will have very positive long-term effects.
Some of us then travelled to the London Museum (which was just OK), I wasn't the best museum is but the information presented was very thorough and one in a sway i had not seen before.
Okay, so now i head back home get changed, meet the whole group minus Casey, Kristen and Shavaugn. We deiced to head to regents street to get a place to eat nd then head towards our clothing unit. Unfortunately most of clothes are the sit national outside of the U.. like turkey, malaysia and mandarin.
Okay, so i'm about ready to fall asleep, ther was a lot left i missed otu on that i will touch tomorrow morning. good night!
