Monday, 7th May

We began the day Lehigh Valley Industrial Park (LVIP), former site of Bethlehem Steel, which was the second largest producer of steel in the US and provided steel for New York's Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Kerry Wrobel, President of LVIP, gave us a history of Bethlehem's steel industry and showed us around LVIP 7.

We then moved on to the Banana Factory, Bethlehem's Community Cultural Arts Center and Gallery, where we were given an interesting tour by Jeff Parks, founder of the Banana Factory and organizer of the hugely popular Musikfest that takes place annually in Bethlehem.

Then it was time for lunch at the Iacocca Institute at Lehigh University where we met with many people involved in the Global Village that is run annually through the Iacocca Institute.

We were then taken to meet our fifth host families from the Reading area.