Arhus and Kolding

So, right after i started this blog and did the first brief post we had to go leave for our travel break, hence the extremely long time in between posts (oh and the week before i left we had exams which meant i had 5 tests and a presentation all in one week)...but im back! so lets get things started eh?
to start here is some pictures from my short study tour which i realized i never posted before.
Our study tour went to western denmark to the towns of Arhus and Kolding. it was pretty fun when we went to the first town Kolding, we went to meet some kids who were seniors in "highschool" but who were actually just a year younger than most people in our program (other than me of course haha) and we all got invited to go to a house party that first night of our trip. So of course we all though "whens the next time we'll get to go to a danish house part?" so we all went. It turned out however, that the term "house" party had been applied rather loosely, and it was actually taking place in a small 2 room apartment...so the night began with 30 americans, 10 danes, and a little bit of alcohol and one small apartment, how could that not lead to good times?
my night was fairly tame, got a little tipsy, danced to some JT (get a little alcohol in me and evidently i become a big JT fan), played some game where the whole point was just to not get shocked (which is suprisingly fun) and then went to a "strip club"...thats how it was described but that was not what it was. Me and Gus got a little pressured into that last option but we thought everyone who was left at the party was going so we figured, what the hell...but when we got in there only 5 or so other kids had went in. At any rate, when 3am rolled around me and Gus figured we should probably get some sleep since we still had a 45 minute walk back to our hostel and had to be up and ready at 8:30.
Ben, another friend who was rooming with us, had a bit more interesting of a night. although originally he was quite shy at the party, he ended up hooking up with the girl whose apartment it was...this happened out in the bushes next to the building...then when they came back she had forgotten her keys and everyone had already left to go to the "strip club"/to sleep so they were locked out and she had to call her parents to come let her in. Ben said her parents where surprisingly cool about the 2am call, having a random american boy hanging out alone with her, and the tower of beer cans her friends had created on her kitchen table...so that was good for him. plus he ended up sleeping there for a while and she actually walked him back at 6:30, which was actually very nice of her although a bit weird for a girl to do.
There is one other kid who had the craziest night out of all of us, but it would take forever to describe everything that happened that night and the next day so i'll save that for when i see you guys in person. To give you an idea though, this is a picture of him after not sleeping that night, and drinking three more beers on the bus ride to the tallest hill in denmark...









oh right and so on a completely different note, that picture up top is of the tallest "mountain" in denmark, they built that tower to make it more impressive than it is i think, because if you look at this picture to the left you'll see the view...which is about as good as it could be (even if there was no fog) from a hill that is probably less than a 1000 feet tall. but this gives you a good idea of how flat denmark is. Oh and its important that i said this was the tallest "mountain" in denmark, because this is actually not the highest point in denmark, but evidently when you are at the highest point in denmark you are in the middle of a sloping field or something...so denmark is definitely not known for its rugged terrain. When we were told we were going to be hiking tallest hill in denmark we were all prepared for at least a 30 minute hike...it actually took us more like 3 minutes, it was disappointing yet so hilarious at the same time, id say i was pleasantly surprised by the whole thing.