There was no class for the whole day today because we had a Yrkedag (Career Day). They had a schedule with different people representing different professions every 40 minutes. The first one I saw was an ekonom. I would guess that's an economist or something similar. He talked about different aspects of being an economist and the various things you can work with like international stuff, taxes, etc. It was kind of hard to follow but I caught the gist of it.
The next one I saw was a pilot. She showed us how a typical work week would go. For example, start in Copenhagen, go to Frankfurt, go back to Copenhagen, then fly to Helsinki and stay the night there. She talked about her responsibilities: checking the plane to make sure it's not leaking oil or anything as well as pre-flight preparations.
After lunch I went to the presentation for the "fastighetsmäcklare"'s, or real estate agents. They talked about what kind of education and personal characteristics you need to do their job. They also gave out pens and chocolate, so they were my favorite. Then we went back to a friends house and played Empire: Total War. I was the Prussians and I did really badly.
I'm going to Stockholm for the first time this weekend. Looking forward to it!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Köpenhamn Igen
I went to Copenhagen again yesterday. We met the Rotary people at the train station and then went across the bridge on the train. After we changed our money from Swedish to Danish crowns, we went to the Strøget. That's the main commercial street in Copenhagen.
There were a lot of shops to see, one of the biggest was H&M. It was just this huge building that went on and on and on. It was like 5 city blocks of one shop. Another interesting one was a tobacconists shop. They had about 500 pipes. Then there was a puzzle and game shop. They had board games, juggling balls, rubik's cubes, dice and books on magic tricks. There was a magician there too. He could shuffle a deck of cards with one hand.
After exploring and eating lunch, we went to the National Museum. There had a tour guide who could speak really good English and he took us around some of the major exhibits of Danish pre-history.
We started in the Stone Age and he showed us flint tools and how people hunted. There was an aurok (prehistoric super cow) that showed evidence of being wounded with both a flint arrow head and a flint spear. There was also some amber jewelry and skulls with holes drilled in the tops. He told us how they used to work for ages and ages on a really nice axe and then throw it in a lake as a sacrifice. That was also the beginning of agriculture in Denmark.
Next was the bronze age, Denmark didn't have any bronze so they had to trade it from further south. There were some really interesting daggers and shields from that time. In that exhibit there was an elk which they used to hunt. He showed us a grave that had two people in it. They had ochre on their bodies which had some kind of spiritual significance. He also told us how they could tell how old a grave was by carbon dating and tree trunk rings.
Finally we came to the Iron age. That was when the Vikings came into power in Denmark. He told us how they never wore horned helmets. Ever. There was a huge cauldron which was apparently used to collect the blood of dying war prisoners so that their last spasms could be used as a way of predicting how the battle would go. Interestingly, it was from Bulgaria, which means that the ancient Danes would have had to gone a long way to get it. Some of the last things he showed us where some golden drinking horns, a ship, and the runic writing system.
That was the last thing on the agenda, so after we were done with that, we just wandered around until it was time to leave.
There were a lot of shops to see, one of the biggest was H&M. It was just this huge building that went on and on and on. It was like 5 city blocks of one shop. Another interesting one was a tobacconists shop. They had about 500 pipes. Then there was a puzzle and game shop. They had board games, juggling balls, rubik's cubes, dice and books on magic tricks. There was a magician there too. He could shuffle a deck of cards with one hand.
After exploring and eating lunch, we went to the National Museum. There had a tour guide who could speak really good English and he took us around some of the major exhibits of Danish pre-history.
We started in the Stone Age and he showed us flint tools and how people hunted. There was an aurok (prehistoric super cow) that showed evidence of being wounded with both a flint arrow head and a flint spear. There was also some amber jewelry and skulls with holes drilled in the tops. He told us how they used to work for ages and ages on a really nice axe and then throw it in a lake as a sacrifice. That was also the beginning of agriculture in Denmark.
Next was the bronze age, Denmark didn't have any bronze so they had to trade it from further south. There were some really interesting daggers and shields from that time. In that exhibit there was an elk which they used to hunt. He showed us a grave that had two people in it. They had ochre on their bodies which had some kind of spiritual significance. He also told us how they could tell how old a grave was by carbon dating and tree trunk rings.
Finally we came to the Iron age. That was when the Vikings came into power in Denmark. He told us how they never wore horned helmets. Ever. There was a huge cauldron which was apparently used to collect the blood of dying war prisoners so that their last spasms could be used as a way of predicting how the battle would go. Interestingly, it was from Bulgaria, which means that the ancient Danes would have had to gone a long way to get it. Some of the last things he showed us where some golden drinking horns, a ship, and the runic writing system.
That was the last thing on the agenda, so after we were done with that, we just wandered around until it was time to leave.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Rainy Day
Today was supremely wet in every sense of the word. When I got back from Malmö I was soaked. Tomorrow some other exchange students and I are going to Copenhagen to look around and stuff. I'm looking forward to it, but I have to wake up early to catch the train. Blehhh...
This week went by fast for me. In psykologi we're learning about memory. She recited a bunch of numbers in sequence and we had to repeat them back to her. One girl got all 16 with only one mistake. Then she had us remember animals, and then a page with pictures, and finally we had to remember which profession was associated with which emotion (hairdresser = happy, policeman = worried, etc.).
We're studying Buddhism in Religion class, and end of the year accounting in Business. Russian is going well, and I'm having fun with it too. Some of my friends also did German and one of them is German so I've been picking up a little of that too.
I went to my first idrott class ever on Tuesday. It was the first time they were in the gym. The other times they were swimming or orienteering somewhere else I didn't know about. He had us do boxing drills for most of the time.
Yesterday I went out Christmas shopping for my family. I just hope that it won't be too expensive to send.
This week went by fast for me. In psykologi we're learning about memory. She recited a bunch of numbers in sequence and we had to repeat them back to her. One girl got all 16 with only one mistake. Then she had us remember animals, and then a page with pictures, and finally we had to remember which profession was associated with which emotion (hairdresser = happy, policeman = worried, etc.).
We're studying Buddhism in Religion class, and end of the year accounting in Business. Russian is going well, and I'm having fun with it too. Some of my friends also did German and one of them is German so I've been picking up a little of that too.
I went to my first idrott class ever on Tuesday. It was the first time they were in the gym. The other times they were swimming or orienteering somewhere else I didn't know about. He had us do boxing drills for most of the time.
Yesterday I went out Christmas shopping for my family. I just hope that it won't be too expensive to send.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Pictures of Fall
I went around and took pictures today. Ystad has changed since summer. They say that winter has already started and that it will last for five months. It's already starting to get darker. I took a lot of photos, but here are some of the best:
Lebanese food. They have really good gyros.
I think this is one of the oldest churches in Skåne.
Means "The Power and the Holiness". It was outside the church, I think it was an exhibit.
Out in the courtyard of the house.
The rest of the pictures are on my photostream.
Lebanese food. They have really good gyros.
I think this is one of the oldest churches in Skåne.
Means "The Power and the Holiness". It was outside the church, I think it was an exhibit.
Out in the courtyard of the house.
The rest of the pictures are on my photostream.
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