A Glimpse of Valley Fantasy

Piste group got a great opportunity to visit some of the most successful companies in Silicon Valley and in the world: Google, Facebook and Accenture. We saw the offices of these tech giants and got to discuss hot topics in IT — maybe even learnt a few valuable things from the…

Frosted Brown Sugar Cinnamon

Naked guitarists, coke cheaper than water, boneless chicken wings with a side of traditional wings as lunch. Yeah buddy, I’m most definitely in the USA.

The last couple of days have been really hectic. I’m one of the 15 students in our study trip…

Sneezing Seal and Piste Lobos

Driving from Santa Barbara to Monterey was a breathtaking experience, and the views were only becoming better as we went forward. On Sunday the plan was to visit the Elephant Seals Rookery and Big Sur National Park as we drove up the coast, and we knew that our schedule was…

Exploring Frisco

Traffic in and near San Francisco is horrible. The Same trip that takes 50 minutes without traffic might take 2 and a half hours…

The Trip Begins

Today just a little bit after 7 in the morning our study trip group took off from the Helsinki-Vantaa airport. We are heading to…

Going Down(town) in La La Land

Surviving the traffic from LAX airport and handling our jet lag with a good night’s sleep, we awoke in sunny Los Angeles with the meter promising us no less than 88 degrees Fahrenheit (31°C) to begin our day with.

California Dreamin’

Now that it has been almost two months since we’ve returned home from the Trip, it is a cool thing to notice that the memories of sunshine and warm Californian air still makes me feel warm inside. As a quick recap, we packed 15 people in total into airplane, flew to Los Angeles and made a road…