Once we arrived we met up with my friend from Uni, Martin, and one of his friends Krzysztof (yep, he's originally Polish). We settled in nicely with the help of homemade bubble tea.
After a quick introduction, Martin introduced the idea of cracking a hole in the 25cm thick ice that had formed over the lake next to his house, and jumping in. Very cool!
Later on that day we would meet up with Martin's parents over dinner; Frank (from the Netherlands) and Ruth (from the Philippines). Frank is fascinating; he graduated from MIT with an Engineering degree, got a MBA from Stanford and confounded an increasingly successful self driving submarine company in the 90's. He's now working on a new Startup creating solar panels which is supposedly using game changing technology which can 1/2 the amount of energy it takes to make solar panels. He was pretty scathing of Trump and his climate change denying views because it mean't they would get no more grants from the Government. However, he told me that he was planning to find a hole in the system to get subsidies from the Government by claiming that funding will make America more competitive against China and their latest boom of solar panel production.
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