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Published: September 16th 2009
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I woke up in Lubeck at 730. This is actually sleeping in, as most days I wake up around 7 o'clock to breakfast with my family before they go to work/school. My class embarks on a walking tour with a very mustached man we meet by the river (don't worry, it's on purpose). He shows us some sights and tells us some facts, but I'm pretty sure everyone will only remember the mustache. And the marzipan shop that we invaded directly after the tour...yummmm.
Time for the bus! We set off for Hamburg. I try to enjoy the scenery along the way, and I do, but it can get a little old, so I make small talk with my classmates and read my book. Suddenly! Hamburg! We were treated to a lunch of schnitzel and french fries, unless you're a vegetarian like me, in which case you are treated to a lunch of veggie lasagna...yummmm.
Then we wander in a large group through Hamburg until we find the Parliament building, which is much easier than finding the Willy Brandt museum yesterday in Lubeck, partly because the building is so massive. A panel of representatives from the Christian Democratic Union,
The Burgerschaft
The Hamburg Parliament the Green Party, and the Social Democrats are waiting for us. Rolf Harlinghausen of the CDU gives a nice synopsis of the Hamburg Parliament's role and functions, then opens it up for some Q&A with him, Roland Heintze (CDU), Andreas Waldowsky (GAL), and Gabriele Dobusch (SPD) - she's feisty! It was neat. Then a tour through the Parliament building, which is more extravagant than some castles that I've seen. (No, I can't end this paragraph with yummmm...)
At this point we should have headed to Sønderborg on the bus, but we voted to stay in Hamburg for a couple extra hours and explore. It's a really cool city, and I would not mind going back for a longer time. There was an anti-fascism rally and a network of pedestrian streets and a hollowed-out, burnt church. Finding the bus again was another adventure entirely, but find it we did, and then it's off to southern Denmark!
The first thing we do Saturday morning in Sønderborg is go to the University of Southern Denmark for a presentation on European border regions, which was the most relevant academic information we received the whole trip. It was pretty interesting -
Street Art
The policeman was quietly observing the artist at work, since the rally/protest/parade hadn't started yet. I just wish I had consumed more coffee before we left.
Then onwards to Dybbøl Banke, the sight of the final defeat of Denmark in 1864. Our tour guide basically told us that although the Danes had a brilliant general who sometimes wore dresses while playing piano and was afraid of the weather, they did not have weapons or numbers to equal or even rival those of the Germans. So they lost, though they put up a good fight. Then lunch! I had an enormous vegetarian sandwich and coffee is a swanky little cafe with three classmates. Yummmm...
The final stop of our short study tour was the Kunstmuseet Trrapholt in Kolding, which is a museum for art design, and handicrat. There were lots of chairs, as well as some concrete art, which isn't actually made of concrete; that's just the genre. Also, Arne Jacobsen, who designed the Egg chair, created the FlexCube, which was meant to be an affordable and flexible pre-fabricated home, but no one ever bought it. They have one at the museum.
When I got back to Copenhagen around 800 pm, I had dessert and drinks at the neighbors, then fell asleep.
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