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The International Business Cohort,

Hope Across Oceans,

Residential Life Program

International Business Cohort

Cheryl Obal: Saudi Arabia

We had Cheryl Obal zoom into the Global Scholars Program and she taught the class the differences between business in Saudi Arabia versus the United States. We learned that it is more relationship based and that before doing business with someone there you need to take them out to coffee or lunch and get to know them. She also talked about the rights women are beginning to gain and their role in businesses. We reviewed project 2030, the $500 billion dollar project NEOM including the line.

Roller Coasters with Dennis Speigel

I invited Dennis to speak at Bolles because he had 50 years of experience in building roller coasters in the US and especially abroad. This is significant because many people that are interested in global learning will eventually enter large multinational corporations, MNCs.

We learned about how the industry is constantly changing. Dennis discussed how they were the first company to work with China to bring them the ‘concept of fun’. The USA was a large influencer of the other countries because they began building in the Philippines, Japan, India, Europe and more. Now the political situations have changed, and these counties are beginning to build their own industry. Therefore, the countries will have less outside intervention from foreign counties with different beliefs. This event increased my global competence because he discussed how you must adapt your plan to different cultures. One example he gave was the severity of roller coasters. If they were building the first roller coaster in that country, then they would make it less scary than a roller coaster in the USA.

Hope Across Oceans

Anaiya and I founded Hope Across Oceans at the beginning of our sophomore year (2022). We set out to help with UNSDG 6: clean water and sanitation. We raised awareness through speaker events with the upper school and lower school. We taught everyone about the water crisis and about the local Florida Aquifers. We also held fundraising events such as the Pie your teacher' fundraiser, pizza sales, and Crumbl cookie sales. Hope Across Oceans also participated in Culture Fair and chose to represent Haiti.

Residential Life Program

I have been apart of the residential life cohort, and I submitted questions that were answered by students in the first round of responses. The main question that the form asked was if students would rather buy locally or from large corporations. Nolan Preston 27' from Canada answered that while he would want to buy locally it is easier to buy from large corporations because of its speed with delivery, using amazon as an example. This can be understandable because he is a student athlete who does not have a lot of free time to go buy products locally, even though wants to. Meanwhile, if he would be going out he would buy locally because of the value of relationships often expressed in Canadian culture. When asked this question Emilie 24' from Saudi Arabia said that she would go local because of the better quality. Theo Hardt 24' from Germany agreed because he knows who and where the products are coming from. This shows how relationships are important across many cultures in different ways. In Germany they are task based so the trust is built through business related activities, which could be why he wanted to know who he was buying products from.

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