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Day Eight (Sean)
As with every visit to Faxe we got a guided tour of the brewery. Per - one of our extended family maintains one of the bottle lines so we got a very interesting and detailed tour. Per used to work with special needs children and he has taken this into his current job. One or two of the machines has ...
Mom in Danmark!
... pit stop to eat at a fountain north of Christiansborg Slot before hopping the metro to Christianshavn in the southern part of town. There we walked to Von Frelsers Kirke (Our Saviour's Church) since I'd never been. It was a simple church, but the organ was huge and climbing the tower was fun and unique. The tower is spiraled, and the steps going up get smaller and smaller until you get to the top point. It was a very cool experience. Next we went to Christiansborg Slot and saw ...
Winding Down
... to get everyone together, but we had a decent crowd. Bo picked me up at my place Saturday morning and we drove north to Helsingør. We met my old tent mate Mikael and his fiance Missy (from Cincinnati!) who came across the ferry from Sweden to meet us. There were about a dozen of us, and we walked up to Kronberg Slot, the castle which was the setting for Hamlet. Overall it was a pretty tame castle - and it wasn't just because I've seen some of the best, even the ...
Done With the Regular Semester!
... early. I was just about the only one from my group that still had finals. So I devoted yet another day Sunday to finishing up my slides with Malte, and we went to my house in the afternoon and rehearsed a bit. I spent most of the night preparing for vacation and tying up loose ends for school and travel plans.
Monday morning I got up and went to my exam. I was extremely lucky – of all the things I had to learn I randomly chose the report I had ...
...And Then Exams Were Here
... bring whatever you had out and offer it, so we had a brief cultural mix-up before I brought it out and we had a little.
The next day I managed to get up early so I could meet with my membrane technology partner to make an outline for our report. We are now writing about protein purification via virus separation using micro and ultrafiltration, and I have gotten a decent amount of writing done so far. It is a new kind of topic for me, but at least I have a partner to ...
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