For the benefit of international business students on the trip, a representative of Ericsson gave a presentation on the cell phone industry in Italy. |
It's a weird thing. The American tendency in that type of situation is to be very quiet and very respectful, but we had to educate them otherwise. |
The pope acknowledged our cheer with a wave of his hand. |
What the students and I talked about was that this meant they were all just so many handshakes away from Jesus. The thrill for me was seeing the sheer joy that the students felt. That was more important to me than touching the pope myself. They really, really got excited. |