Our first day visiting the Greenville Area

The district conference is over, and we are now living with our lovely host families. Yesterday (Sunday) I spent in the Peace Concert Hall where the symphony played The Resurrection by Gustav Mahler. Wonderful! Afterwards I went to a dinner with my host family were Dr Paul Farmer were the guest of honour, how great! For those of you who do not know Farmer I can tell you that he was one of the speakers at the conference this weekend. He gave the most inspiring speach, about improving peoples health in Haiti. What an amazing man. He even signed my copy of his book.

Breakfast with the mayor
Lucky as we are we had breakfast with the mayor of Greenville, Knox White. The view from the building was fantastic ( I don't remember which one it was...). He told us about the city and some of the city plans. Interesting! We had a nice breakfast, but forgot to take pictures.


The Chamber of Commerce
We had an interesting visit to the city's Chamber of Commerce where we met Hank Hyatt. He could tell us al about how Greenville is trying to make the county a great place for business. There are a lot of international businessess in the area and we had a great time learning about their focus on business and also education.

News
The Greenville News and WYFF Television were having the honour of giving us guided tours today. I have never been in a television studio before. Morten is going back to both of these corporations on his vocational day later this week. We enjoyed our few minutes of fame. Well, okay, we didn't actually go on air, but we had fun sitting in those chairs.



















Birthday boy
Our presentation at the lunch with the Greenville East Rotary Club went very well. They even had figured out that we had a birthday boy in our group: Morten, who is turning 31 tomorrow, had his birthday cake. We all tasted it, so we know it was good! Congratulations Morten :)
























Ride with Sheriff Deputy
In Greenville you can ride along with the Sheriff Deputy. We did, and I found it quite interesting. I haven't spoken to the rest of the group, so I do not know what they experienced. I'm sorry I didn't get a picture of me and the deputy, but it's all true.