Bence in the States: 02.06 - 02.12 - Basketball Hall of Fame, Black Bear

I am sitting in my chair after a crazy party night and thinking about how to start this spot. I have been thinking for like 10 minutes and i figured that why don't i just write down what i am thinking about. So, here we go! I have already started my spot:)

I would split my week for three sections: school, work, weekend.

So, school, well, I cannot tell you anything relevant right now. Honestly i am well behind of every class. We do have some papers to handle. I have to organize my thought regarding the school, i just do not know what is going on there. I know it is bad, very bad. After finishing this blogspot i am going to look over every syllabus, i am trying to be organized. On finance class we will have our first midterm due on the 20th of February. I would have to read 90 pages. Oh well...

For the other classes i got my books at least and now i am able to learn physically. :D But i still have to pick them up from the QU post office. Ok, that is well enough about the school.

Photronics. I will tell u more about the company later on. I have so many things to do there, several projects, etc. Here is their webpage: www.photronics.com. They are producing photomasks and have 8 factories. What is a photomask and how they make it? http://www.pkl.co.kr/english/product/product05.html This is a pretty good company and i will learn a lot, especially in inventory management and procurement. My official responsibilities will be the following as it is written in my offer letter:

- Develop basic understanding of Purchasing and Inventory functions

- Support of tactical and day-to-day departmental needs as required

- Support of process improvement projects

- Data analysis for cost saving initiatives

- Specific areas of Interest?

I cannot tell you more guys about these projects, otherwise i should kill you, but i am going to like the third point and the fifth one. This company is on NASDAQ, but the headquarter is perfect size for me to learn how to manage a company at this size. Brilliant opportunity to learn!!

But the way to go there is just a big suck. 50 minutes each way and 100 miles a day. After my first day i was exhausted like crazy! After work i went to transportation management class, and i just looked out my head without any consciousness what is going on there. Anyway, after it we went out to our regular restaurant visit (every Wednesday we are going out and eat every time at different places), and as we arrived i went to bed. Fortunately Xiao Xiao asked me whether i did my homework for managing marketing channels or not, because it is due to tomorrow. I said, WTF?????? What is wrong with you? There is no homework for tomorrow. Actually we had...So i had to get up at 5 in the morning to do my homework for the class before work. I did. And i guess i will get 100% on it. Then i went to work and after it, i had that certain class and then we went out to the Eli's (bar).

I had training with the HR, finalized the paperwork, and i passed the drugtest too! We went to the cleanroom, it is the soul of the factory that is the place where the photomasks are produced on silicon quartz plates and with pellicles. We were gowned up in the gowning room and went inside. You cannot imagine that world. I could compare to some kind of Sci-Fi movie, or Nasa airplane. It is crazy! Colors, smells, touches, mood are totally different. You can imagine how clean that room is, in a cubic meter there are just 100 particals. If you rub your clean (freshly washed!!!) palms together, you gonna make 700 particals an average. So, when your mother asks u whether you cleaned up your room, even you did it, it is still in mess!:D Since then I do not want to clean up my room, it wont be clean anyway:D

On Friday lunch we went out a new mexican restaurant. The service was just unbelievable!!! That was kind a service we should learn! I have already done:D

Weekend. So, yesterday was a pretty good day and night! After our regular workout on Friday my abs were killed on Saturday. Never mind Bence! I was almost not able to leave my bed:) I put some shitty food together for breakfast and at 11am, we (Andras and I) headed towards Springfield. The main goal was the Hall of Fame (Basketball). We arrived, the discounted entry fee was $17 per person! WTF??? I am surely not interested in basketball, but ok, i have one life, so, it is time to start to make that kind of interest! Remember Bence, you are open! OK, i thought! We went into it, it was a little bit disappointment, but later on i enjoyed every minute i spent there. I made a lot of pictures, videos, we sacked some scores. I'll show you some pictures.

Then we went to visit the UCONN, University of Connecticut. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Connecticut 30,000 students are at the campus. That is a real university town, in the middle of nowhere. They have own police station, called UCON Police, not just QU Security. Policeeeeee!!! I was amazed! There is no similar university in Hungary, i am sure!

On the way back we visited this: http://www.connecticutsar.org/sites/eh-schoolhouse.htm Nathan Hale Schoolhouse, a piece of the american history. That guy said this: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Here are the pictures and videos: