Friday, April 10th

Waking up at 6:00am, a tad bit earlier than my usual 6:30am, was not difficult at all. I ate my regular breakfast with Mathias and his parents, and then headed off to school. When we got to Herning Gymnasium, there was a very large bus waiting for us. We boarded the bus, and embarked on the slightly over an hour trek to Aarhus. The bus ride was pretty fun, despite the early departure. We talked, listened to music, played games, Kenneth even gave us a quiz on our knowledge of both Cleveland and Herning. Once we arrived at Aarhus, we left the bus and toured the university. It was very cool to see, considering me and a lot of my fellow seniors on the trip are all preparing to head off to College anyways. We also saw some students practicing their beer chugging and kayaking, a traditional college activity in Denmark. We then walked to the ARoS Art Museum, a walk that seemed to take forever! Once we finally arrived, we toured the museum. I didn't love the tour. I thought the girl who lead the tour talked far too much, and did a lot of the interpreting herself rather than allowing us to do it for ourselves. I really liked this part, as the tour guide lady left out pretty much every cool part of the museum. There were several awesome exhibits, such as a rainbow-fog room and the rainbow panorama room. After looking around and taking pictures, we headed out to a very old church, where we split up and had our free time. I went with Nandor, Ryan and Adam. We first went to Super Dry, a store I've purchased items from in China. I got very excited when I spotted it and knew we had to get something from there, there are only two in the US. We then walked around for a while and got lunch, the largest pizza I've ever seen in my life. I somehow ate two pieces. We then hopped back on the bus and headed for the Queen's Castle. It was beautiful, overlooking the sea was a large, clean white house. We kind of hung out around it, taking pictures the whole time. We then boarded the bus and headed back to Herning. This was one of my favorite days of the trip. I bonded with a lot of students from OHS who I had never even spoke to prior to the trip. I made a lot of new friends, and got to spend a lot of time with my old friends too. As Mr. Chordas would say, it was "quality". Once back at the school, Mathias, Paul, Cornell, Lasse, Ben and I all went to play pool for a little before heading to Carla's. Carla's was very fun as well. She lived on a farm, so there were dogs, sheep, pheasants, etc. Adam and I even chased down one of the sheep and pet it. Dinner was also very good, everyone loves Tacos! We hung out there until pretty late and then went home. Carla's was great, because, this time, I got to bond with the Danes. There were a lot of them that I had really not gotten the chance to meet and talk to, so I made a lot of friends there.