Study Trip - Day one

How quickly one can fall behind! I am going to start with the 10th of Feburary. DIS takes us on a couple of these study tours. About 40 of us load into a nice bus and hit the road. This one was around Denmark. The next one will be a week long instead of just the three days. We are busy from 8:30am - 8:30pm, but it is all very fun. It is also nice because I don't have to drive!

Starting with Feb10. I arrive at Frue Plads (one of the many large churches near school) at 7:30 am. We depart CPH and head for the Trapholt Museum located in Kolding Denmark.

On our way.

Cool building on the way.

Interior of the Trapholt. The lamp fixtures are everywhere in Denmark. I like them very much.

View from the Trapholt diner.

Sure do like things in abundance.

Speaking of abundance! This one is for you Karen.

New favorite painter (besides Tom) is Michael Kvium.

Last one of the Trapholt (I could go on about this place). Very cool.

We left the Trapholt and headed for Lystrup to check out a sustainable housing development. Cool but pretty out-of-date at this point. So off to Aalborg we went. Here we stopped at Nordkraft. This was an old coal-fired electricity plant. They renovated the place and it is now a Kulture Center; an amazing collaboration between businesses really. They have done a good job of creating a sustainable business. Maybe not so much on the green building side, more in the creation a network of businesses that compliment each other, but at the same time, if one closed down, the place wouldn't be empty.

 





Gymnasium in Nordkraft. The climbing wall is four stories. I would just like to mention this was the beginning of a stair-climbing nightmare. This building is 13 stories. That is Danish stories, which means that where our first floor is one, theirs is zero. We had the honor of climbing to the top. Yep. All the way to the top. This would be the first of several buildings that this would happen in. I muttered just about every foul word I knew.

HA! I love this country.

Roof top of Nordkraft. Just as cold as you would imagine it being. Nice view though. The orange beams hold up this incredibly large box of offices on the interior.

This is for you Amanda Branson! Remember when we went to see David Letterman 16 years ago? The band that night was Take That. We had never heard of them. The were AWFUL! We didn't even clap when they were done. Turns out they are a Danish boy-band. I'll be damned. The company that ran the club at Nordkraft had their picture on the wall because they played there. The guy showing us around said "so you guys must know who this is." We all stood in silence. Crickets. Then he said, "its Take That! They are Danish!" I laughed out loud and then had to have my picture taken with the photo of them. If people at school questioned my age before . . . it was clear then.

There is a surprising amount of sculpture in Denmark, of this exact thing.

We do like our creamy dressings.

My first hostel! It was super nice, even if it was a four km walk to the bar. Each way.