Steph Goes to Denmark: Horsens and Aarhus

We got back from our short study tour on Sunday. We spent the first two days in Horsens last two days in Aarhus visiting Arla, the biggest dairy company in Denmark, Suzlon, the fifth largest wind turbine manufacturing group in the world and attended a lecture by Martin Paldam, a professor in the Economics department at Aarhus University, on The Cycle of Development in Africa: A Story about the power of economic ideas. We spent the second day at the Aros Museum. It had a lot of really cool exhibits. You can check them out at the following website http://en.aros.dk/. My favorite part was the Rainbow Panorama, which I will post a picture of with a description from the museum. Afterwards we attended a traditional Danish lunch, which consisted of about 5 different fishes (mini shrimp, smoked salmon, herring, and other unidentifiable fish), bread and mayo based sauces. Then I got to see a handball game between two Danish teams. Apparently handball is very big in Europe so it was exciting to see. I would say it's a mix between basketball and lacrosse.
Since I've been back in Copenhagen I've been to the National Museum with my Nordic Mythology class, where we got to see lots of skeletons of people and their tools from the Stone, Bronze and Viking Ages. It was very interesting but also the morning after a long night out at Kulor Bar. Later that day I met up with friends in my History of Copenhagen class and we tackled an assignment where we were instructed to visit 15 different sights around the city and take pictures and answer questions on them. Today we saw the Black Diamond Library, Parliament and their gardens, the Rosenborg Palace Gardens, and The National Gallery.

My bowling team in Horsens

The Rainbow Panorama at the Aros Musuem in Aarus

Olafur Eliasson has created this permanent work of art in the form of a circular walkway 150 metres in extent and three metres wide made in glass in all the colours of the spectrum. The spectacular work of art has a diameter of 52 metres and is mounted on slender columns 3.5 metres above the roof surface of the museum. Visitors to the museum will have access to this great work of art via stairs and lifts. They can take a stroll such as will delight the senses round this circular pathway, which will provide them with panoramic views of the surrounding city and Århus Bay.