This week was very interesting during classes we learned a lot about payment options between 2 countries. Back a home you learn that a letter of credit is the best form of payment to use while you are doing business. In Paris we have learned of some stories that represent why a letter of credit is not always the best choice. Another form of payment discussed is that you cannot always rely on your transportation company. Once that company has arrived at the dock they don’t always want to hold on to your products. Most of the time they do not always have a place to store them until the company pays you and they end up being delivered to the buyer without a full payment.
We also went to a museum that used to be a old train station in Paris it now is full of painting and exhibits. It was once built so that all of the people coming into Paris for a large event were not all coming into the same train station. The station is now closed and they have built a new one, which is one of the largest buildings in central Paris. Some of the paintings in the building are famous because of all the controversy they had caused a long time ago. One painting is of 2 men and 2 women they look as if they are all at a picnic. The two men are relaxed and fully clothed and the women have no clothes on and are also sitting there relaxed. Another set of painting were from an exhibit formed with all of the rejected paintings some of them are of the human body and were not acceptable at that time and others were just not artistic enough and not understood.
This week as a whole was very enlightening and I really enjoying hearing the other side of business transactions. Sometime I believe Americans think they rule the world, yet in another country they lose the power entitlement many think they have. Being abroad has enlightened my way of thinking even more and made me understand some of the true differences between our thought processes.
XOXO, Chelsea
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