I know this is a little late, but I wanted to post stuff about my second day on our study tour. We started the day with a visit to a school called Sondervangskolen, which is made up of about 80-90% "ethnic minority" children, which means kids who aren't ethnically Danish. A lot of the families come from Turkey, Palestine and Somalia. We had a group of seventh graders give us tours of the school. I thought of Caroline at first, because the girl who showed us around was a lot like her, and then of Mom, because we talked with one of the teachers a lot in the library. After the morning at the school, we visited a bazar in the area of Skanderborg, where we had delicious baklava and hummus. We went to visit an area of Denmark known as "dish city," because the large immigrant population there uses satellite dishes to get news and other tv channels from their home countries. A local organization called Youth-4-Youth showed us around and told us about their work mentoring to youth in the area. We then drove to our hostel in Aarhus (a tiny room that I shared with 5 other girls) and took us out to dinner at a Greek restaurant called Cucos. I think they were trying to get us ready for Istanbul through regional cuisine.
The next day we had a lot more free time in Aarhus, and I walked the streets with a few other girls and stopped for a chai along the way. I thought I had left my camera in my luggage, but I found it in my coat pocket after we had passed the most beautiful streets! Oh well, here are some last-minute pictures I snapped:
We ended up at the Aros museum (pictured above), a really cool art museum. Here are some pictures:
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| This sculpture is from a photo of Abu Ghraib, This artist uses a classical style (the bodies look like Greek and Roman sculptures) but his pieces have some kind of thought-provoking aspect. |
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| These photographers, Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt, takes multiple photos and then sort-f super-imposes them on each other. The people and animals in this picture are all from different pictures, which I think is pretty cool. |
The major exhibit was the works of Jorn, whose works seems similar to that of Jackson Pollock. I really liked all the colors in his paintings, and the museum did a good job of displaying them on a plain white wall.
The title of this picture is: "Dead Drunk Danes." Interesting. The guy has a real Danish sense of humor.
As you can see a little from the picture above, the museum was arranged around a huge spiral staircase that led you to all 6 floors.
One of the works for which the museum is famous is the large Boy Sculpture. Pretty cool--the artist got the folds in his shorts and everything.
View of Aarhus from the museum
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