Phones and traveling

I've added some information to the wiki site on the Florence Information page. There is a link to the PicCell Wireless web page for student rentals. (note that if you wait to buy a phone that you can use your US cell phone in "roaming" mode for quick, expensive calls in Europe.

There is also a link to the Italian train company, Trenitalia, and to a site that collects low cost airline route information.

Your assignment is to go to the Participants page for the class you're in and leave a comment with a short biographical introduction for the rest of the class to read. And if you would like to go by a different name than the one I put on the site, let me know and I'll change it.

And please feel free to leave comments on this blog, if you want. Comments are moderated, but I will post them as soon as I read through them. I do it this way because I don't want spammers leaving comments here.

The difference between Italy and Europe

A little YouTube video to help you get ready for the cultural differences between Italy and the rest of Europe.

Meeting update

The business school is "full" on Friday, so the meeting from 2:00-4:00 will be in the Student Union. We can just pull a couple of tables together and talk there. See you there, or on Thursday in the School of Business cafe.

Note: both sessions are informal and you can come whenever you are free and stay as long as you want.

Questions and answers

The Study Abroad Office will have their orientation session for the summer on Monday at 4:00 in the big lecture hall underground between the ITE (engineering) building and the Library. If you have an exam or something, please concentrate on that and contact the Study Abroad office about getting the information you missed.
I will be at the front of the lecture hall starting around 3:30 and would love to say hi to everyone. My picture is on the business school website, if you want to know who to look for.
I will also run two information sessions in the School of Business Cafe later in the week.

Thursday, April 17, 4:00-6:00
Friday April 18, 2:00-4:00

These are not required or anything, since I will try to communicate anything important here and on the wiki. But it will be fun to meet all of you and have a chance to talk about the trip. Come to one if you have the chance.
One other thing: if you think of a question, go to the wiki, go to the Question & Answer page and post a comment on the page. I will keep an eye out, and then copy your question into the page and try to address your question.

Wiki & Blog updates

Keeping track of my new posts on this blog is pretty easy, and if you're used to using an RSS reader, you can subscribe to this blog very easily.
For the wiki, if you click on "preferences" at the bottom, that will take you to a screen where you can change your password, but you can also choose to receive updates when changes are made (hourly, daily, weekly). When something changes, you'll get an email, so I would probably choose the daily, if you want to get notifications.
I will be posting things as I get information (I just added to the Florence page some info about your flights, for example) so keep an eye on both of these sites.

Getting ready for Florence

Welcome to the students who are going on the Business in Florence program. There should be an email for you (sent to your uconn.edu address) with some information about the trip. Please take a look and respond to me so I know we are connected via email. There's also some information about the wiki that we will use for the class.