This post will be epic (part 1)

So last Thursday, I got up at 6, gathered a few things, ate a banana, and was out the door and into the snow by 6:30 or so. I mad it in time to Frue Plads, out meeting place for the bus, and waited around with people to find out which of the many buses there was ours. We finally get on the bus and head out, and end up turning around after a couple of minutes to get three people who were extremely late.

Roughly three and half hours late we arrived (20 or so minutes late) in Århus for a lecture at the Danish School of Media (the Journalisthøjskolen). The guy giving the lecture was cool, but it was really nothing we hadn't heard, and everyone was still tired and hungry. So after about an hour of that we went and had a group lunch at this very posh place. Everyone got their own giant fried filet of sole -- my first fish in Denmark -- and potatoes and such. It was good, but had all the bones in which no one realized when they took their first bite.

After lunch we went for another lecture/discussion at the media house Midtjyske Medier. They publish what I think is the largest local paper in Århus. The guy who gave this lecture was also pretty cool. Talked some about how they are dealing with the Internet, etc.

Then things started getting good! We went to the ARoS Museum. While we were waiting for our group leaders to get our tickets, some man who worked at the museum came up to us, asking us where we were from, what we were doing. Then he told us that there was a new exhibit opening the next day, all about digital and interactive art, that he thought would be perfect for our group, so he managed to get us into an unopened exhibit for about a half an hour. What was even more amazing was that almost all of the artists were there, setting things up and whatnot because there was a press conference later. So we got explanations about the pieces from the artists! The coolest piece were the Life Writer and the Pulse Room. The former piece was an old typewriter somehow wired to a computer, and based on this coding, whatever was typed could then be created into little programmed insects that moved around. It was very cool. In the Pulse Room, the cieling had 300 lightbulbs on it, and there was a device that transferred your pulse into this pulsing lightbulb -- the room went dark for a few seconds as the new pulse transferred to the a single lightbulb and the 300th beat was replaced.

So after all this, we went to the hostel and checked in, then the bus driver was nice enough to drive every back into the city so we could go and get dinner. Myself and three of the girls I was staying with, along with three guys from our program ended up joining us, and we just went to a cafe and got sandwiches and such. We then met up with two of our group leaders and went the the Studenterhus (Studenthouse) for a little while -- got a Carlsberg, it was actually good. We watched a band play for about twenty minutes, but we were tired and wanted to get showers before bed, so we found our way to the bus we needed to catch for the hostel. Bed early!