Some General Stuff

Here is some general stuff from Copenhagen before the study tour we took in Session 2...

 Frue Plads:

Where we were first dropped off in Copenhagen. We usually described where we lived with this landmark. Never entered it though. Pretty pathetic of me, eh?

 Nick n Ben in an awesome blurry picture taken when I had possibly drank a couple glasses of wine. Some cool cats though, excellent meeting them.

 "The anchor" (some of these I may have posted already, whoops) At the end of a cool and very touristy harbor.

 That harbor I previously mentioned. There was some cool history about shipping, but I have since forgotten it.

 The oldest building in Copenhagen (due to it burning multiple times, one of which the English did)

 Some cool detail on the harbor (ARCHITECTURE!!)

 The Queen's Palace and the Church. Ended up there chasing a group of students we thought were going to some cool event. Turned out to be just more tourists.

 The Opera house, looking the opposite direction from the previous picture.

 Statue in the middle, of some famous king or what not. The line went Church, Royalty, Infinity (order of importance at one time.)

 Danish Parliament (passed this many days going to the beach)

 A really cool outdoor ceiling

Guard at the Queen's Palace

Same idea as before

samesies 

 The Church (of the state I think)

 A great cider, strong, but at the glass shops near Norreport)

Family dinner

 Those cool kids again

 Now it's a Sarah sandwich (my apologies if that is spelled wrong)

 Evening from Islands Brygge

 Floating dinner on the harbor. A bit too expensive for my tastes.

Islands Brygge. (top jumping point is five meters, pretty cool)

 Soccer at the harbor (free and tons of fun, way to love football Denmark!)

 Skyline at the football viewing

 Steph, Cara, Haley selfie attempt 1

Me doing a selfie of a selfie. Classy

Night shot (artsy maybe?)

 Harbor at night

The ultimate game of Kubb (where you knock the other team's blocks over and then finally knock over the central king.) I will be making a set in woodshop when I return, cause its an awesome game.

And finally a real cool chair made by the Architecture and Design students of Copenhagen. It was later featured at the harbor, where people were enjoying sitting in it.

And there is the end of round 1 of wrapping up my trip to Denmark this summer! Next round will be the study tour in Finland, and that will be happening tomorrow after I get home at 6 pm Seattle time.

Been Behind

Hola to all reading my blog,

I realize I haven't posted in 5-7 weeks, my apologies. I was busy being in studio. So my current gameplan is to go start at the beginning of the pictures I haven't posted yet, and upload a group of em every day till I am out of pictures. I'll give some better captions on one's that bring some great memories back.

And to begin, Session 1 family dinner. 

These cat's made the first round of DIS study abroad awesome and easy to integrate into. Thanks Nick for the brilliant Chicken Parmesan. Good luck to all these people, and if I don't get the opportunity to see some of y'all again, have excellent lives! Keep having fun session 1 cats, just maybe a lil less fun than those three weeks. 

Egeskov

Egeskov

Yesterday we visited Egeskov, which was the final location we visited before the final day of class: today. There were things to do there for every age and interest, from amazing playgrounds for children, phenomenal car and motorcycle museums for the motor enthusiasts, and an amazing museum inside the castle of the different counts and their collections. Toby's final question is...

Does the historic and elitist institution of the country house estate have a role and purpose in Denmark’s egalitarian society?  Explain your answer.

I believe that the historic and once elitist institutions of country house estates play a vital role in Denmark’s egalitarian society due to the support they now give to the historic preservation and great things they offer to the public. During our visit to Egeskov, I noticed that even though the money was invested by the counts in the ways they chose (motorcycles and cars), the current count offers them to be viewed by the public. There is a fee involved, but it is used to maintain the exhibits, gardens, and recreational activities of Egeskov. The people being paid for maintenance are hard-working individuals that are part of the egalitarian society. The count also created the gardens to make sure none of the families on the estate would be fired due to the new farming equipment. These actions prove that this country estate has offered many things to the community and focuses on the people, rather than the profit or the power held by money. Many other elitist institutions now offer many things back to the people, since at one point in the middle stages of garden design, a rich lord commissioned his garden to be paid for by the people’s taxes. After the people discovered this, they became upset and rose against many of his other laws. The future of major garden construction then became a lone investment by the party wishing to create the gardens, and in order to please the people looking through the fences at these originally private gardens many elites opened their gates to the public. The new wave of people also would have created the need for more maintenance, which means more jobs for the people who need them. Although these large estates were owned by the rich and powerful of the time, they were the kindest and most generous way to show wealth once many were opened to the public.

Egeskov: