Since I'm trying to catch up on all the days I haven't written about yet I'm going to start mushing some entries together.
Monday we had a lecture on Danish literature. I've heard from the majority of people that this was the worst one. I rather liked it, but I see where the others are coming from saying it was hard to follow. The guy was all over the place saying that this relates to this and comes back to this other thing and in the end it all points to this other topic. Mostly I got the impression that he was laughing to himself the whole time and that if we had a few months we could really have gotten into the topic and it would be fascinating. Most of the others seemed lost.
Today we visited the Jyllands Posten, which is the morning news paper. As I understand it you can get a version if it free. This version has condensed stories - a bit like summaries of some of the major stuff and then if you want to you can purchase a more indepth version of it. But why would you do that when you already got the news? I guess they aren't doing so well because advertisers aren't interested. Advertisers aren't interested in a lot of things these days, or maybe they are and it's just that their budgets are being cut, economy and all. When will people learn that to make money you have to spend money? And if you put out some nice ads and tell the nice people that they need these nice products then they'll spend their hard earned money and oh, look, the economy will pick up. It's all very nice in theory anyway. Speaking of theories, I can't tell you how many times I've used the phrase "well, even communism works in theory - perfectly actually." Then again, so does democracy. Damn, and I just typed it democrazy - freudian slip? Naaah.
Anyway, the neat thing about the Paper (which I keep wanting to call the Post) is that we got to see these huge machines that print the paper, and these huge rolls of paper that they use to uh.. put the words on to make the paper. It was really cool. We didn't really seem them working much, although we were supposed to, but I suppose the patience of the tour guide ran out since it was supposed to be "any minute now" or "I'll just go check and see if they're going to be starting soon" and they never did. Well, it ran slowly for a little while but nothing exciting per se. I enjoyed it none the less. Well except the part where I learned that my camera battery had died. Grr. Okay, so no more photos. Overall it was a nice day and I enjoyed the two programs. I like a lot of things. Basically if you teach me something new, I'm happy. Well, good sort of new. I don't want to learn to sacrifice animals or anything icky like that. ew. Sorry, I'm done now.