Getting Over The Laziness

Wow, I think it has been a little under a month since my last entry. Unfortunate, as I thought I would update considerably more often. The important thing is that now, this minute, I am writing something worthwhile about Copenhagen. Stay tuned.

So the day is September 3rd, 2009. I have officially been living in Denmark for about 2 1/2 months. The weather is changing from sunny, breezy, and slightly warm to gradually darker, damper, and today it even haled!

With this change of season comes a change in daily routine. DIS started last Friday and boy has time been flying! We were thrown into 4 person architectural teams, with the task of visiting, analyzing, and visually representing a high-density housing development about an hour outside of Copenhagen. My team (consisting of 2 Meg(h)ans and a Brandon Hall [no relation to Brandon N. Hall]) went to a small coastal town to the north called Helsingør. We toured a community designed by Jørn Utzon in the late 50s called Kingohusene. After hours in studio, we are finished nice and early before our 1pm deadline tomorrow afternoon. Our designs are actually going to be in an exhibition as part of Copenhagens Design Week!

Besides Architectural Studio, I am taking a class called Digital Design Journal. I think this should be a really interesting course. Our first assignment is to create a powerpoint presentation, utilizing images, film clips, and sounds, in order to create a specific scent in the nostrils of its viewers. My group toyed with the idea of B.O. We have the weekend to work on it, so not quite sure what will come of it!?

Last night was a great "getting to know eachother" kind of party between the American and Danish networkers at DIS. I met loads of Danes and spoke a lot of Danish. Great times.

I discovered the best bakery I have ever been to: Sankt. Peders Bageri... I had the most amazing chocolate croissant ever. I think I will go back tomorrow. By the way, Ondsdags Sneglen = Wednesday's Snail/Pastry.

Next Thursday, I am going to be traveling around Denmark, doing a small survey of the Architecture with our studios.

Lots of exciting things going on here.

Miss you all loads.

Love, of course,

A.T.