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Around the World |
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After spending four years as a senior vice president of sales and operations at an Internet advertising agency, Hans Theisen '89 closed his laptop and embarked on a 10-month worldwide tour of 6 continents and 42 countries. He traveled from August 2001 to June 2002 and touched down on every corner of the globe that his round-the-world ticket allowed. Highlights included participating in the Notting Hill Carnival in London, attending the Holi Festival in India, visiting Angkor Wat in Cambodia, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, diving the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, skydiving in New Zealand, horseback riding at the Giza Pyramids in Egypt, racing a motorcycle through the Swiss Alps, and drinking with a Laplander in Finland.
He says the trip has brought him a much broader understanding of the world; a stronger respect for foreign cultures, peoples, and religions; and lifelong friends, young and old, whom he made almost everywhere he visited. He encourages his "fellow IC grads to tour abroad. The U.S. needs more goodwill ambassadors!" --- Robin Fostel | |||||
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