Babson BRIC Program

The purpose of this site is to share the pictures I take with my friends and family back home while I travel with the BRIC group from Babson College. Our group consists of 18 students and 4 professors who will stay in St. Petersburg, Russia for 4 weeks, and then move on to Beijing, China. Our final stop is in Shanghai, China. Our goal on this trip is not only to learn about the business and entrepreneurial environments in these two developing countries, but also to experience first hand, the history and cultures of the three cities in which we are studying.

Updates

9/6/2009: Russia Week 1

9/25/2009: Russia Week 2, 3, and 4

10/28/2009: Beijing, China

Contact

Connor Hood
chood1 [at] babson.edu
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All 18 of Us plus a few visitors...
Final Dinner Table 3
Final Dinner Table 2
Final Dinner Table 1
Everyone
The Gang
Awesome
Everyone but Animesh
Oh boy...
Final Presentations
Animesh and his parents
Gong Security Group
Lake Pointe Presentation
At the Photographic Equipment Factory
One of our first guest speakers
Thumbs up
Shanghai is cool at night
Hampster
Daniel Goldstein
Kevin and Milind
Shanghai Skyline
Kevin, Animesh, and Alex
Shanghai at Night
Skyline action
Chinese cupping = bruising for Milind
Outside the "shirt factory"
Cutting table
Very dirty...
Eric Katz getting his work on
Lunch break = empty factory
All 18 of Us
"Welcome to Babson College from the US" or something along those lines (YiWu trade center)
Amar on the train...
Animesh catching up on work
It was pretty hot on the train
Our life for 24 hours. Cramped on a overnight & all day train from Beijing to YiWu
First foreigners to make a 5 man period INSIDE the Forbidden City?
Me
The Great Wall
10KM Great Wall Hike
Camp fire - Random Village in China
Fire
Fire Master
On the Bus to the Great Wall
Preparing for the Long Great Wall Hike
Team "A" - 10KM in ~2HRS
Alex, Kevin, Jamie, and Amar
All 18 of us (+1 - Jake from IES)
The Duo
My Awesome Hat
Buddies
The Great Wall IS NOT An Easy Hike
Annie on the Wall
Jiamei
We walked all along this...
Me taking a rest.
The other BRIC people about 30 minutes behind us
A Long Walk Ahead
The Great Wall
One of Many Towers
A man who wakes up every morning and walks the great wall...
Almost there...
On the Bridge to the Village
The Last Stretch
Village Dinner
Eric's Little Friend at the Village
Animesh at the Summer Palace
Liz - Summer Palace
The Summer Palace
Eric, Liz, and Animesh
Eric, Myself (Connor), Animesh, and Lepie
Dan
Milind relaxing...
Animesh
The Whole Group minus myself
At the TOP of Summer Palace
Posing...
Climbing the Summer Palace
Sonny
Pensive
Liz and I
The Summer Palace
TEAM 1 at Beijing Da Xue - #1 School in China
Street Food - 10RMB/person (1.5USD)
Annie working hard, or hardly working? Probably working hard...
Milind
Painting Bunnies
Artist Jamie
Sarah
LaShonda's Master Piece
Jeremiah from IES telling us about Beijing's model city
One day, this will all be yours
Model of Beijing
Chaos at Tiananmen Square
Something about the 60th Anniversary
The man himself...
The BRIC Beijing CREW
Oh baby...
Forbidden City
Tiananmen Square
Forbidden City
Sonny at Forbidden City
The Boss
He's always laughing
Silver Zach
Forbidden City
I paid everyone to leave the Forbidden city so I could get a shot with no people in it
Inside the Forbidden City
Amar with some friends
Forbidden City
A few from above
4:30AM Sunrise at the Great Wall
Sunrise at the Great Wall
5AM - Top of the Great Wall
On Top of the World
The Hardest Hike of my Life - V for Victory
Eric Talking to Tony Robbins
Eric on the Top
Eric and I
Dan being pensive again...
Hmm...
Animiesh Ziplining it off the Great Wall
To the Zip Line
Jumping off...
Iron Steel Factory - Beijing
Babson Friends from Hong Kong Visit Beijing - The Birds Nest
The Birds Nest
At the Birds Nest
One of the most amazing things I saw in Beijing...
Moscow - Crazy Clouds in Red Square
Moscow - Skyline
Moscow - Fire throwers
Moscow - Misc.
Moscow - Zach loves taking pictures
Moscow - Sonny
Moscow - So much going on here
Moscow - Professor Coyle at work
Moscow - At the conference
Moscow - Sealing the deal
Moscow - Conference
Moscow - Steph
Moscow - Red Square
Moscow - Misc.
Moscow - Can't remember the name, oops
Moscow - Eric
Moscow - Overnight train to Moscow
Moscow - Animesh on the train
BRIC Group
Sonny at Novgorod
Animesh at Novgorod
Me
Waterside in Novgorod
Katz's never closes
walking outside the Monastery
Misc.
Memorial / Burial Grounds
Burial Grounds in St. Petes
Sonny outside the Memorial
Misc
Tombstone
The Hampster
Animesh on the Battleship
Amar, Liz, and Yana
Mr. Doshi
Man Love
Sonny and some crazy CLOUDS
Posing on the battleship
Me riding on the swing
Milind and Dan in the Hermitage
Hermitage
Hermitage
Milind in the Hermitage
A St. Petersburg Sunset?
Dan Goldstein at Peter & Paul
Misc.
Army guys at Peterhoff
Half of the BRIC team at Peterhoff
Some more BRIC people
Animesh and I
Dan and Animesh
Crappy weather at Peterhoff
Peterhoff
The fountains at Peterhoff are crazy
World Traveler?
We do actually have class
Animesh and Amar sitting by the water
The ceiling at Peter & Paul I think
Peter & Paul
Steph at Peter & Paul
Animesh and I
Eric and I
Milind at Peter & Paul
Peter & Paul
Miling down by the water
Trying to do a B-R-I-C letter picture
Amar and I
Amar by the water
Hanging by the water...
13 BRIC students with Professor Seitz
By the lighthouse
Milind in front of the lighthouse
The sun from inside the bus
Shot from inside the bus
Hermitage
Hermitage ceiling