Day one:Monday February 4th
We started the day with a visit to Carlsberg which was located in Copenhagen. Carlsberg is a beer company. After the presentation, we were given a tour of the old brewery by our teacher in the freezing weather (it was literally raining, hailing, and snowing all at once) oh and we can't forget about the wind that came with this "wonderful" weather. So after a frigid walk outside in my flats, my feet were very happy once on the bus. We then headed to visit Velux, a company that makes roof windows. Yea yea, I know what you are thinking, windows are so lame, right? Well that's what I thought too until our speaker began his presentation. Let's just say by the end of it, my mind was blown away with the company. They don't just sell roof windows, they sell beauty, sunlight and a view. I definitely wouldn't mind having a Velux window in my house (they are actually really affordable and can be found at Home Depot/Lowes) ...yes, i'm advertising for them but that's because they are gorgeous! After Velux, we went to our Hostel which was called Danhostel Randers in Randers (place marked at 1 on map) Here are some pictures of the first day
Day two:
We visited Grundfos which is a leader in pumps. Once again, sounds lame right? Well it wasn't bad at all, they made pumps seem very interesting and it actually is. For example they have this Grundfos LIFELINK which provides sustainable water lfor developing countries like Kenya. Here is the website for the project so you can check it out (http://www.grundfoslifelink.com/) As you may or may not know, my family is from South Sudan and I told the Grundfos presenter that they should bring this technology for clean drinkable water in South Sudan and his response to me was "Well you can't save the world". Well that hurt a lot, you can't save the whole world (it's huge after all) but you can start somewhere. So, for those of you that are reading this, please prove this man wrong! Let's show him that one small kind act at a time, we can change the world.
After our visit, we drove to Arhus (place number 2 on the map) and visited the AroS museum. I can say that this is now my favorite museum. period. We had about an hour of free time so my friend Holly and I went exploring. We stopped at an Irish Pub and got a drink and nachos. We began speaking to the bartender about Carlsburg because our final project is on them and we learned a lot from him. He then proceeded to make us what is called a Snake Bite which is half Carlsberg beer and half dry apple cider(the alcoholic kind aka Somersby) which tasted delicious. He said that a lot of the girls drank it because it was cheap, good, had a high alcohol content which meant they would get tipsy/drunk faster. This was an amazing drink, I will definitely be ordering it here in Copenhagen. After the museum we went bowling! It was a great bonding experience. Once again, here are some awesome pictures from day two because words can't describe what I've seen.
Day 3:
For our third day in Jutland, we visited a prison that is now a museum. This prison was ran from 1853-2006. It's called Faenglet. The prison was very cold and we had an amazing tour guide who told us every little story about this museum. For example, there was a famous innate who escaped from this prison and it was this inmate who inspired the movie The Shawshank Redemption. If you haven't seen the movie, go do it after you finish reading my blog. After the prison visit, we went to go eat at a buffet and then we were once again Copenhagen bound. now for more pictures:
For the 4th and 5th day of core course week, we were in Copenhagen. We went to SAS, CocaCola and BrewPub which is a brewery/restaurant. The SAS visit wasn't my favorite. I won't go into details about it. CocaCola was short and sweet. We got to do a beer tasting at BrewPub which was awesome! More pictures!!
And that's core course week. Oh one thing I forgot to mention, every single time we got off the bus, it was snowing. every. single. time.
-Until next time! Vi Ses!
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