So much to say

Last Thursday began at 5:45 am for me. I packed up my backpack, bedding and all, took a bus into the city, in the cold rain I might add, to get on a bus and travel to Århus, Denmark with my Communications and Mass Media program. Four hours later we arrived to a overcast sky in Denmark's second biggest city Århus. Århus is located on the main land of Denmark called Jyutlland We then got a lecture from a professor at the Journalism school. From there we embarked quickly to Midtjuske Medier, a Midtjylland newspaper. We again got a lecture about they dying print media and the growth of the online news.... exact same stuff we have been hearing for a while....

The more exciting part of the day was the cultural visit to the ARoS Art Museum where we were lucky enough to check out a new "enter action" exhibit a day before it opened and it was so neat the way we got to be part of the art! The Danish people are very accommodating and kind when they see groups of about 50 American students in a group. We were able to see it only cause a guy who worked at the Museum came up to a group of us and asked what were were all doing. They were more than welcome to show us around to the new exhibit.

I then had my first hostel experience. We were literally placed in the middle of a forest about 15 minutes out of the city, mind you the second biggest city is really not that big at all in Denmark. Despite it's location, it was not all that bad and a few of us managed to find an AMAZING burger place before finding a bar to spend the evening at. My first hostel experience was a success and I hope they are all pretty similar, since i am now starting to plan my spring break travels.

The next morning was another early morning. After carbo-loading on fresh bread, cheese, and jam we piled on the bus to our next location Kolding. Kolding is a very tiny town were Koldinghus is located. Koldinghus is the last of the ancient royal castles on the Jutland area of Denmark. The castle founded in the 11th century burnt down in the 1800s

After a morning in Kolding we set off to a new city in Fyn called Odense. Odense is the home of the Danish government-owned television station TV2. We were again a very fortunate group of students. It just so happened that we were touring the station right as they were about to film the 16:00 news and we were actually able to watch them film the 16:00 news in the newsroom! Odense is also the home of Hans Christian Andersen. After our tour of the TV2 station we got a tour of the whole town of Odense and got too see the influence H.C. Anderson has in just about every aspect of the city.We managed to fit just about everything we could in to those three days we spent in western Denmark and I found my self homesick for Copenhagen... yes, not even the US, I missed the big city streets, the cobble stones, the hotdog stands, the people, the night life, the shopping, and my friends here too! It was a really fun trip but its left me itching to travel more! As I write we are planning weekend trips to Amsterdam, Stockholm, Malmö, and Berlin. And that is just weekend trips!



Again to see all of the photos:
album 1
album 2