Rain? What is it?
People here find it amusing that I find rain such a novelty, but as a Sydneysider, and as someone who spent 2 weeks in the brilliant Turkey sunshine, I haven't seen proper rain for about 3 months (London rain certainly doesn't count, much more like very annoying mist!)
It has been raining in buckets on and off for the last few days - lovely to sit inside, chatting to people, eating and relaxing, but rather annoying to go out in! But as Denmark supposedly has rain about every 3 days, I'll have to get used to it!
On Thursday afternoon we went to the Aros Art Museum, which is mostly modern art. I loved it, because I really like a lot of contemporary stuff - there was a really cool room which was set up to play through 24 hours of a living room in 8 minutes - very well done! And there is a 5 metre scuplture by an Australian artist called Boy - disturbingly lifelike!
On Friday we went to what can only be described as a cult - in Denmark, from ages 17 to 20, kids tend to study at a final high school/university type thing called Gymnasium. The Ronde Hojskole, or Folk High School, that we visited on Friday is something that you can do after that, which lasts for about 5 months, and involves learning what you want for the pure joy of it, and meeting other people. It sounds really nice in theory, but the guy who lectured us about it made us sing hymns to start with, kept telling strange stories without endings, and really made the whole experience rather disturbing! Particularly as we then toured the place, to see that it was pretty much like a kid's school camp, which again appeared odd! Basically, the whole thing could have been done better if we had just had a lecture at the university about it, rather than travelling for 40 minutes by bus to this strange cult-like environment!
Saturday was relaxing, after a night in on Friday watching Four Weddings and a Funeral - it's great that everything here is not dubbed, but subtitled, so I can learn strange Danish words as well as still being able to watch things! Our lovely Italian boys cooked us lunch - authentic Italian carbonara! It's a hard life I lead, I know!
But Saturday night was great - we partied at the Student house, where the music was badly dj'ed, with only a couple of good songs to dance to every half an hour, but the strange Danish alcohol was interesting - shots of liquor that tastes like Fisherman's Friend lollies, and is actually called Fishermans! We ended up at McDonald's (an old staple, although much more expensive here!), then at a funny bar which was playing music from the 80's, like 'I'm So Excited"! Unfortunately, trying to catch a taxi home proved difficult, as it turns out that for a city of 300,000 people, there are only 300 taxis, so almost impossible on a Saturday night! As the sun rises so early here, I arrived home just as it was coming up, around 5:30am! But a great night (see the pictures below). Also below are some general pictures of the people I'm spending time with - lots of fun people from all over the world!
Us at the outdoor cinema - Fabrizio, Charlotte, Diego and me.
Marte (Germany) and Fabrizio.
L-R Abi (Spain), Sonja, Alexandra and Magdalena (Germany)
L-R: Hannika (Netherlands), Jade (Canada), Sonja (Germany), Ben (Australia), me, Andreas (Danish).
Jonathan (Canadian), Ben and Anthony (Aussie), me, Charlotte (UK).
Anna (Germany) at the beach.
It has been raining in buckets on and off for the last few days - lovely to sit inside, chatting to people, eating and relaxing, but rather annoying to go out in! But as Denmark supposedly has rain about every 3 days, I'll have to get used to it!
On Thursday afternoon we went to the Aros Art Museum, which is mostly modern art. I loved it, because I really like a lot of contemporary stuff - there was a really cool room which was set up to play through 24 hours of a living room in 8 minutes - very well done! And there is a 5 metre scuplture by an Australian artist called Boy - disturbingly lifelike!
On Friday we went to what can only be described as a cult - in Denmark, from ages 17 to 20, kids tend to study at a final high school/university type thing called Gymnasium. The Ronde Hojskole, or Folk High School, that we visited on Friday is something that you can do after that, which lasts for about 5 months, and involves learning what you want for the pure joy of it, and meeting other people. It sounds really nice in theory, but the guy who lectured us about it made us sing hymns to start with, kept telling strange stories without endings, and really made the whole experience rather disturbing! Particularly as we then toured the place, to see that it was pretty much like a kid's school camp, which again appeared odd! Basically, the whole thing could have been done better if we had just had a lecture at the university about it, rather than travelling for 40 minutes by bus to this strange cult-like environment!
Saturday was relaxing, after a night in on Friday watching Four Weddings and a Funeral - it's great that everything here is not dubbed, but subtitled, so I can learn strange Danish words as well as still being able to watch things! Our lovely Italian boys cooked us lunch - authentic Italian carbonara! It's a hard life I lead, I know!
But Saturday night was great - we partied at the Student house, where the music was badly dj'ed, with only a couple of good songs to dance to every half an hour, but the strange Danish alcohol was interesting - shots of liquor that tastes like Fisherman's Friend lollies, and is actually called Fishermans! We ended up at McDonald's (an old staple, although much more expensive here!), then at a funny bar which was playing music from the 80's, like 'I'm So Excited"! Unfortunately, trying to catch a taxi home proved difficult, as it turns out that for a city of 300,000 people, there are only 300 taxis, so almost impossible on a Saturday night! As the sun rises so early here, I arrived home just as it was coming up, around 5:30am! But a great night (see the pictures below). Also below are some general pictures of the people I'm spending time with - lots of fun people from all over the world!
Us at the outdoor cinema - Fabrizio, Charlotte, Diego and me.
Marte (Germany) and Fabrizio.
L-R Abi (Spain), Sonja, Alexandra and Magdalena (Germany)
L-R: Hannika (Netherlands), Jade (Canada), Sonja (Germany), Ben (Australia), me, Andreas (Danish).
Jonathan (Canadian), Ben and Anthony (Aussie), me, Charlotte (UK).
Anna (Germany) at the beach.
posted by Laura B @ 6:05 pm
1 Comments:
At 2:22 pm,
Anonymous said…
The artist is Ron Mueck and I totally love his stuff! That's an awesome photo of "Boy"!!!
You better watch yourself with those Italian boys... They're good looking, they cook... Who knows what might happen?
It's great to hear you're having a blast. Keep it up!
xx
Kathleen
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