Its been a good portion of time since i have updated this. Not to despair, nothing has happened. I thought it would be boring to keep updating this thing saying, "nothing has happened, nothing has happened."
Well yesterday something happened. Yesterday we went to the dyerhavn. pronounced "deer-hawen," it used to be the kings' hunting grounds, we stopped at a place, which has a really long name (forgot it), which was the place where the king would eat lunch when he was hunting. Of course, this small lunch spot was the size of a large mansion with all the statues and gargoyles to go with it. Now Denmark doesn't even have a king, they have a Queen, who i doubt is that interested in hunting, but she will come up later. They do use the grounds once a year for a fox hunt, in which I doubt they find many foxes because apparently a large population of commoners come out to watch the spectacle. For now, there are just a bunch of people riding around up there, its in this area north of Kobenhavn called the wiskey belt, which the NYtimes did a piece on in the last week, and it is just overall beautiful. There is a golf course, with some horrible golfers on it, and the deer have magnificent antlers.
We trekked through this area on our way to this little settlement where George Jenson had is factories. He also believed that his workers would be more productive if they were happy, so he built them a little town, with a lot of amenities. By town I mean under 100 buildings and houses. Now the only people who live there are artists and traditional crafts makers. They apply to live there, the list is really long, the woman we visited Lisbett Friis, applied right out of school, and space just opened up, now that two of her kids have gone to college themselves. She also got some studio http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifspace there, which she says, "I will never leave." She does all sorts of cool textiles, like reupholstering all the chairs in the Queen's yacht, making pillows for Fritz Hansen, anhttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifd art projects. She is more of an artist than a designer, and admitted that she needed to be convinced to turn her art into a business. We walked back through the dyrehavns, it was nice. When we got back to the train station, Ola and I decided to go to the beach for an hour before heading back to school. It was nice, but we ended up talking about my ex for a while, and that put me in a really bad mood.
But things are looking up, People are printing, and things are starting to roll.
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PS. New pics on the picasa
