The sixth day in The United States

Thursday: 

Epic:

UW Hospital - American Center tour:

After the visit on Epic, which sells medical systems and software, we visited the UW Health hospital in Madison.

The hospital looked similar to hospitals in Denmark, it was very modern and beautiful.

We got divided into four groups and got a guided tour. The group Emilie was in, got an educater that educates new nurses. She was very interested in us, what we wanted to see.

We told her, we were business students, who were very interested in marketing, which she found very helpful to give us the best experience on the guided tour.

 

We saw their extraordinary facilities as a basketball track and football track. She told that people who primarely used the hospital were non-emergency surgeries (they are sent to the hospital downtosn in Madison). It was primarely people with a sports injure.

It looked like a very good place to be treated when you get an injure, but she told us that they had difficulties with their marketing and branding of their hospital, many in the area do not know the hospital, which we founded quite weird, because hospitals in Denmark do not brand themselves or feel the need to draw attention on the hospital.

The tour was great because we saw the hospital with a business and marketing perspective and it was very interesting to see how the american politics is difficult on health etc.

115th Fighter Wing:

Fighter Wing was our last company to see today. When we arrived at noon to the military base where there was served sandwiches for us and some chips. While we were eating we saw the first jet plane took off and everyone ran outside to see the 6 others who was about to take off. When the planes were long gone, we met a pilot who told us about the life as a pilot and about the education if you wished to be a pilot.

Last but not least we had a guided tour around in the base, which was really exciting and a huge experience. Some things we were really surprised about is that there were unbelievable many women who was employees there, and some of the employees in the base workt on a part time which means that they have another job besides the job in the military airforce base.

The fire engine at the United States Air Force base. 

Some of the girls in front of the fire engine. 

Mentor night - Departure Dinner with Mentors:
So today was our last day with our mentors. Sadly Signes, Cecilies and Tanyas mentor did not show up Again.We all meet at a bowlingally, where we ate, we got burgers(it was just a bun and meat) and pasta. To dessert we had a cookie.

Emilie's experience:

Sarah showed up as one of the first mentors at the departure dinner. Our group had so much fun with her, and we really enjoyed being together with her.

She had lot of things and knowledge to offer. I did not think americans would understand our humour with sarcasm and irony, but sarah was understood it and thought we were fun.

After we were finished with eating at the departure dinner, we drove to a walmart. We wanted to see the supermarket that are so popular on the social medias. It was a very big supermarket(we thought), they had everything and it was in so big packages. You will never see so big packages in Denmark.

Sarah said that we had to see a Costco supermarket then, if we thought Walmart was a big supermarket. She was right, Walmart was nothing compared to the Costco supermarket. Everything was big even the shelves that the products were kept on were big. Even if it was in big packages, it was so cheap. And beyound that, they had so many flavours and brands in substitute products, so it gave us a feeling that there are a lot more competition on the food-market in the US than in Denmark.

We saw parfumes from Marc Jacobs with 125 ml. to 50 $, which is nothing compared to danish prices.

We are not used to these "super" supermarkets in Denmark, mostly supermarkets in Denmark are small and local, and we figured out that the cost of living in the United States are much cheaper than in Denmark.

After we had looked around in Costco, we headed back to our hotel. Sadly we had to say goodbye to Sarah, but we agreed to find eachother on Facebook to keep in touch.

Futhermore we saw something that were worth thinking about. In America they fight obesity everywhere, but in the supermarket you could take a scooter trolley, where people who gets to tired to go shopping in Walmart, can take the one you will see in video down under this.