San Francisco

Hi

I’ve been in San Francisco for over a week now and I’ve been so busy!

On the conference I was on explored the city and went to all the tourist attractions. I’ve walked the Golden Gate Bridge, been to Alcatraz, driven across the Bay Bridge and fed the homeless at Glide Memorial Church. In the city it isn’t very green because it’s an industrial city but where I am now everything is blooming for spring.

I’m now staying in Oakland with a host family and going to school at Athenian in Danville; which is about 1 hour out of the city. The Athenian School last year was voted the ‘Greenest School in the Country’ and I think this ties in nicely with my theme of green. The school is heavily into recycling, gardening and saving power by using solar panels. The school is situated just below Mt. Diablo and many other grassy hills; everything is so lush and green.

While I’ve been here I’ve also been into the department stores we’ve been researching. I’ve been to Bloomingdales, Nordstrom’s and Macy’s. I also went into Zara; which was looked at in one of the case studies.