First Weekend

The first weekend in Denmark has been a blast. On Saturday I went to a beach (Charlottenlund). One thing I was suprised by was that the beaches were grass (very well kept and very short, but there was only sand for about 2 feet before the water, this may have just been because it was high tide but I found it kind of a nice change. There was no scalding hot sand to worry about before getting in the water and also sand didn't get everywhere which usually happens when you go to the beach.

Saturday night a group of us went out to a sports bar, it was a great time we ended up staying quite late and learned a few new drinking games from the bartender.

The next morning I had to meet up with the group for a tour of rural Denmark. We rode an hour out to what used to be the Summer House for the King and Queen of Denmark, there was a beautiful garden and it was amazing how a house from the 1600's still looked pretty nice.

After a tour of the house and grounds we had some lunch and then proceeded to an attraction that was one of the 'back in time' villages. The idea was to trace the history of Denmark back from the stone age to around the 1400's. There were exhibits all over the place and it was nice to walk around for a while. The highlights for me was the bog of sacrifice and the Gladiator battles.

Tomorrow we get our introduction to the course work. I'm a little nervous because I think that I am the only one who will receive an actual grade and not just a pass/fail so it might be difficult to remain focused while others are off enjoying their summer.

I'll hope to put up another post sometime this week to update how the course is going.