International Negotiations

So semester 2 is offically underway as I"ve just attended my second lecture, which is my negotiations class..you know the one I blogged about where you can't be late. It's definetly gonna be my hardest class this semester (apart from probably International Finance but since I've already given up hope on that one before it's even begun, I have a certain zen feeling about the entire thing). First we had to break up into cultural groups so that we could tell the class how our culture normally negotiates. Once again I'm the only American so I had to be with a couple of Australians that were in our class and we talked about negotiating in Australia. Then we had a huge group from Thailand, one from Mainland China, one from Norway, one from Taiwan, and one from France. So that pretty much sums up the class...half asian, half european..then me the token American as my professor called me. I'm definetly gonna learn alot there's no way I can't being totally out of my element. Also as an aside I also must mention that all the French guys are hot, that's sure to throw off negotiation tactics I'm sure..at the end of this week we got randomly given a negotiation role to study for next week and some other random person got the other number so that's who you'll be arguing against next week. I've gotta argue with Emmanuel this Frenchman who promptly came up to me and says, ah so now we are a couple. Ummm yeah I guess you could say that..trouble!