Frause adventures from afar

For the first entry of the Frause blog, I thought it would be interesting to highlight the high regard that Frause holds for its employees’ international experiences. In the last month, two Frausians have traveled to Asia, both for business and for pleasure.

Bob Frause participated in the annual Public Relations Organisation International (PROI) (http://www.proi.org/) conference, this year hosted in Beijing, China, and then went on to visit a PROI partner in Hong Kong.

Photo by Sue Frause

Upon the conclusion of the PROI conference, Bob and his wife Sue left China for the lovely land of Bali. Fondly reminiscing about the vacation of all vacations, Bob couldn’t believe how inexpensive it was: his priciest purchase was a 20 dollar t-shirt!

Bob has a story for every occasion—some of the funniest have to do with traffic. He described the road regulations as suggestions rather than laws. For example, instead of stopping at every light, people stop at their convenience. It was not at all uncommon to see an entire family piled onto one little Moped weaving in

and out of cars—the mother side-saddling with a baby in her arm and a basket of fruit on her head.

Photo by Taico Club
Also in Asia this month was another Frause employee, Laura Brown. After living in Japan for six years, Laura returned for two weeks to host a 24-hour music festival she co-created, called Taico Club (http://www.taicoclub.com/), which takes place near Nagano, Japan. Her hard work paid off—the festival was sold out with over 6,000 guests! After long months of planning, and a few days of festivities, Laura celebrated with her friends at a nearby hot springs.

From beaches to rice paddies, we enjoyed hearing about their adventures—and seeing evidence of them, too! Laura showed us the goodies stashed away in her desk—some of her favorite things from ‘home’ she just can’t do without. Not all is amiss because the rest of us weren’t able to make it to the other side of the world; Bob brought us all handmade sarongs from Bali! -Maia