Monday, July 16, 2007

Another day passed, two more fellows gone. It has not hit me yet though. I can see – with my own eyes – that arrivals are being replaced by departures, but my brains will not accept it…

Monday was a bit different. For one, bikes were replaced with the bus, because it would be a bit hard to bike across all those hills and never-ending kilometers, in the heat we did not experience before Monday. Our day started with nourishment, prepared by Aila’s parents. We walked towards the Medical Center with our full tummies, which would probably just get in the way if we were biking. In the Medical Center we saw an exhibition of pictures with different motives. These pictures were made by people who were living in that Psychiatric Hospital at some point - for whatever reason. Perhaps most known of them was Ovartaci. For more information click here.

Our tourist trip continued to the Moesgård Museum and its surrounding nature, which can be found south of Århus. We went for a short walk through the forest nearby, and admired the beauty of animals, and plants, and the environment they share. To satisfy our cultural curiosity we headed in the Moesgård Museum, where we learned the secrets of Grauballe man, who was killed more than 2000 years ago. Aside from that, some of us decided to use our free time and take a look at a special exhibition called “One World – A Thousand Stories”. The exhibition contains more than 40.000 items from all over the world. We were really tired after that, and it was time for nourishment once again before we headed to the bus. Of course Alex and Harald knew that all that unhealthy food would leave its mark on their muscular body, so they ran back to the museum because they had forgotten their bags – once we were already on the bus! Luckily the bus driver was understanding, and he waited for them (once he had yelled “30 seconds” after them).

The bus took us to the Danish Queen’s ‘cottage’, which looked like a villa to me. We saw her summerhouse, and its enormous surrounding area (including Queen’s Rose Garden). Overwhelmed by the beauty of everything that we saw that day, we headed to the pool just to find out that it was closed.

The evening was spent relaxing in front of the television/computer, listening to music, or playing a “w”iolent game of “Pass the Jellyfish”. Evening quickly became early morning, and it was time to say SEE YOU LATER (not goodbye) to our two fellows, Joline from Sweden and Darya from Russia.

Ines Kavgic,
Slovenia