A Walkabout in the Rain and Visiting IF Insurance

Everyone looked better this morning with some much needed sleep under their belt, but after talking with the students, a number of them woke up around 4am.  We met up with the students and all walked down to the water so that a hop-on hop-off tour could be had by the students. Unfortunately, it was raining, sometimes quite heavily, so it was really a hop-on tour.  After a trip back to change, we met up again for some lunch. 

We had originally arranged to meet up at one of 4 exits from a subway station to go get the students a local favorite Tunnbrödsrullar (it is not as easy to pronounce as it looks) for lunch.  As is inevitably the case when communication is impaired (in this case because of the cost of engaging mobile technology outside the US), we ended up at different exits and spent 15 minutes wandering around between the exits before reconnecting.  It is amazing that these things can happen in a day and age where almost all of us have cell phones, but it does…because we didn’t want to use them.  We did meet up and got the students their  Tunnbrödsrullar (which consists of a hot dog, mashed potatoes, shrimp salad, lettuce, tomato and onions in a tortilla) which by all accounts was good before heading to our first visit.

We met up with one of Nic’s old friends, Andreas, who gave us a brief overview of IF Insurance before providing some great information on the sales and servicing of property and casualty insurance in Sweden.  The talk was very informative and the students asked good questions setting a high bar for the upcoming visits.

Tomorrow, we visit H&M and head to either the Vasa Museum or Skansen.  Ciao.