Learning New Things

10/3/16-10/9/2016

Favorite Sorbet!  Mango and Grapefruit.

This week has been interesting at school.  This week has been about how to be an innovator.  The professor giving the lecture was from Germany, and was very into having the class participate in the lecture.   I learned about the processes of creating/changing a product/process/ or service.  It was a very interesting lecture series. We also visited a pasta, and biscuit company called Ekibio.  Ekibio is a company centered around lowering their environmental impact. I enjoyed hearing about their company and all the ways they are working to make it the most sustainable it can be.  They had this issue with their refrigerator rooms consuming more energy in the afternoons than in the morning or evening.  So to fix this problem and lower their energy consumption they installed solar panels on the roof above the refrigerator rooms.  This helped the company in two ways.  The first was that they have solar panels to help generate energy, and two they created a shadow that helped keep the refrigerating room cooler.   They also do a lot to help with their employee's happiness, and working conditions.

Honey (left), Brooklyn (Right) 

This week I also started taking ballet classes again!  I am taking a ballet class at the Academie de Danse Lyon 7.  The instructor talks in french (really fast)!  It's a good thing that the dance moves and names are the same as in the US, and I can count to 8 in french.  Everyone is so nice, and the class is challenging. I am looking forward to this weeks class!

Today I went to a flee market with my host family and their dogs.  It was so big, with a lot of stuff that looked like it cam from 1950-1960 America.  

I had a great week of learning, and now on to the next!