Day 12: Guns and T-shirt - Wednesday 20/4

Just when you start getting used to your bed and your hosts, you have to leave them for a new pair. And in all fairness, you never know what your gonna get.

Their was totally no vocational scheduled today, nor the rest of the week. I guess they forgot.

We started our day at Staples. Filip is an IT specialist who weirs to different kind of shoes and decided to buy the new Playbook from Blackberry yesterday, only to find out it didn’t work, so he (we) had to return it. Luckily for him Staples was able to help him, but he had to leave his toy behind for the day.

We drove up to Wendell. This is a small town with only 4000 inhabitants and by the look of it only survive because thanks to Mortex, a sports apparel printer. First we went to the chambers of commerce and that followed by a stop at Perry’s Guns store. These people were very found of their guns and oh boy did they had a lot of guns. We were disgusted by al the dangers war guns they had and by the fact that they carried them with them. People in the US should not be surprised that their are so many school shootings. I guess they’ll never learn.

I was happy to leave that place and we stopped at a Mexican restaurant for lunch. The food was good.

Third and last stop of the day was Mortex, a large screen printing firm that sells T-shirts and school logo sportswear. We toured the plant and it was quite interesting to see how they make logos and other stuff.

After that it was straight to our new host families. The Kilians are a typically old southern couple who love the Wolfpacks (NC State Football team). After dinner and survivor I went to bed.

Nick