Aarhus, in the middle of the street! (Get it? Bad joke.. sorry!)

I am back! You all probably didn't even know I was gone since I don't think I ever actually updated about my brief hiatus from Copenhagen. First, on Wednesday, I went ot the Carlsburg Brewery - it was awesome! We got to try 2 different kinds of beer after our self-guided tour. Here are some pictures!

I drank all of those.

Just hangin at the brewery, makin some beer in the stable.

Delicious!

 Anyway, back to the main point of this entry. I went on a short study tour to Western Denmark with my core course. Between Thursday and Saturday, we visited Aarhus, Kolding, and Horsens. Here is a day-by-day account of it, since I'm sure you all are DYING to know what I did! Also, there are cool pictures, so you should definitely read this obscenely long entry.

Thursday, we arrived in Aarhus after a very exhausting 4 hour busride. We saw a PET scan center and the Center for Integrative Neuroscience. We also visited a general practioner. While the visits seem cool, they were actually pretty disappointing - we sat through really long lectures about things that had nothing to do with our class, and saw way too many MRI scanners - not actually pictures of scans, just the machines. That evening we went to a really delicious Italian restaurant and a cool, privately owned brewery/bar. We stayed in a really beautiful hostel that served amazing breakfast.

My baby beer at the Sankt Clemens Brew House (it doesn't look like a baby sized beer, but compared to the other glass sizes, this was for tiny tots).

Friday we went to the University of Aarhus' hospital which was definitely cooler than the other 2 places. We saw a pig undergoing lapriscopic surgery and learned about different types of synthetic heart valve replacements. After that, we were able to walk around the center of Aarhus, and I grabbed lunch with a few of my classmates at a pretty terrible buffet (everything tasted like shawarma - even tho it was an Italian buffet haha). After that we went to the most amazing modern art museum, ARoS. We had a lackluster guided tour, but then were able to explore on our own for about 45 minutes.  Below are some pictures of my favorite exhibit by Lemmerz, and here is a link if you want to learn more about him/are as obsessed with him as I am. http://www.faurschou.com/artists/christianlemmerz/info

"Boy"

I don't remember what this is called

Something about the Pope in the afterlife. Lemmerz didn't like the Catholic Church

Strange Fruit

After the museum, we grabbed some hot chocolate, took a bus ride to Horsens, and went cosmic bowling after a buffet at the bowling alley! It was a really nice place - much less sketchy than bowling alleys in the US, and the Danish pop music they were playing at first (they quickly changed to US pop) was hilarious. I actually did pretty well - I got a 70 in one of the games! I'm thinking of going pro.

Some bowling hotties

Saturday, we drove to Kolding where we visited Koldinghus, a castle that burned down in 1808. However, after a renovation by some famous Danes, it's back on its feet and holds a Beatles exhibit (so weird to experience The Beatles in a castle...). The view from the top of the tower was amazing (see below) and it really showed me how out of shape I am since I could barely breathe after the 158 steps to the top. Later, we got lunch and went to Trapholt - a Danish art and design museum. I have never seen so many effing chairs in my life. What was worse was that you weren't allowed to sit on any of them. You just looked and took pictures and listened to the tour guide tell you how sophisticated a wooden chair is. I don't think I'm cultured enough to appreciate that museum. However, we got really delicious cake afterwards, so I was pretty content.

I'm Queen of the World! Or just Koldinghus...

These are chairs on a wall.

This is a chair.

This is also a chair.

This isn't a chair, I just like gnomes.

So, that was my study tour. I arrived back last evening, and then went to a dance club with some of my friends. We met hilarious Italian men, one of whom pretty much confessed his love for me (I'm pretty used to it though- it happens a lot). Today I did a lot of pretending to do homework, and now I'm continuing that by updating here.  Congrats to those of you who made it all the way down here! Vi ses! (That's a way to say good bye in Danish. That's your reward for reading all of this!)