Sooo after our trip, our final project is the center of our attention now with studio hours every other day and lectures in between that. It's been kind of stressful to have to prepare a whole project in such a short amount of time but I guess that is preparing us for real life....or a mental breakdown. :) Haha just kidding. It's been fun too. We get to explore this city a little more when we go on our walks between lectures and after the day is over.
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Thought about the Finnish Language Their words are long and very hard to pronounce. You think your saying a word correctly but when you are corrected by an actual Finnish speaker they seem to have dropped about 70% of the letters and sounds. Me saying Nahdaan myohemmin (see you later) would be "Nah-dan My-o-hem-min" but if they say it it may be "NahMmin" or something completely not the what the word looks like. I don't think I'm learning this language anytime soon unfortunately.
Danish Fashion From what I've seen:
Females: Big sweaters, leggings, jeans, a lot of converses. Harem pants are huge here. And you can mismatch patterns, colors, styles and look like you just threw on clothes and it is totally fine here. Check out this cool site. http://thelocals.dk/ for some examples. (I didn't want to be a complete creeper and photographing people)
Males: They seem to be very casual...but its seems planned at the same time. Even if they are wearing a preppy sweater, ripped jeans, and converse that seemed to be thrown together last minute-ly...but I don't think it was..Also the trend for hair for guys is the faux hawk, I see a handful whenever I walk downtown.
Interesting thing:
When we first got here I thought that Denmark had a thing about Elephants because there were these big painted elephants everywhere. Kind of like Rochester had Horses on parade. They are everywhere and all painted differently. I found out that this parade of elephants is to raise awareness of the abused and injured elephants that are out there. And the money raised from painting mini elephants goes to help them all over the world. Very cool. Side Note: It seems like a lot of people like to climb these elephants as well.
Weird thing I witnessed:
During Class there was a music and what seemed to be a parade. So we all stood on the windows to check it out..what we saw were hundreds of Santas, Santa's wife, Santa Kids.... jamming down the street. If someone knows why please let me know. I was amused but very confused.
Tourist Things we saw this week:
-Carlsberg Brewery
We heard this was a fun place to check out and is important because it is Denmark's choice beer. They are huge and have a lot of different labels of beer under them. So we went to check out the brewery. It was self-guided and was fun to check out. We saw their horses, old factory, the biggest beer bottle collection in the world, and received 2 free beers with our ticket to try. They were ok I guess since I am not a big beer drinker but it was fun to try and see my first brewery. Also Funny note: They have a huge sign in the middle of Copenhagen that says "Probably the best beer in town" I guess they weren't sure when they put this sign up...
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So far so good out here. I am trying really hard not to think about how homesick I am and how much work there is let to do. We have our hostel to design, models to build, presentation to prepare, exams to study for in really only 1.5-2 weeks. And we have a short 3 day study trip to go on. AHH and there is still so much architecture and touristy things to see and there is no time left!
Shout-outs: Mr and Mrs. Mitchell on becoming new grandparents! Everyone who has been reading my blogs, I hope that they are somewhat interesting to read or even just to look at the pictures!
End of the Day thought: Oh no it's almost over! Bittersweet.
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